Word: agonizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinction of second place. The judges took 40 minutes to reach their decision, and announced that each of the contestants had an advocate in the deliberations. Nicole Galland, who presented LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk from Omelas"; Joseph Krailik, who chose Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes: Fragment of an Agon"; Randloph McGrorty, who delivered Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; Philip Resnik, who recited Rilke's "Duino Elegies"; and Jeffrey Rosen, who enacted Cicero's "The Verine Orations," all deserve recognition of their oratory skills for becoming finalists in this competition. But I feel Paniela...
...this ballet a fresh-as- tomorrow look, but the choreography blends fairly closely with two other strong Robbins works now in repertory, Piano Pieces and the brief Andantino. And as always, Robbins nods to the dances of his mentor George Balanchine, particularly swift, sharply etched Rubies and the propulsive Agon. He is experimenting with a new kind of music, and how far he will go is unclear. But in the meantime he puts on a hell of a show...
Balanchine's musical acumen paid off, spectacularly, in an almost lifelong partnership with Composer Igor Stravinsky, resulting in such landmarks as Apollo (1928), Orpheus (1947) and Agon (1957). The first dance Balanchine ever made to Stravinsky's music in the West was a segment of The Song of the Nightingale in 1925, and the last major project he worked on, the City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky centennial celebration, included a new version of Noah and the Flood...
...Taras' observation suggests why the all-Stravinsky marathon was a success anyway. The troupe gathered and displayed its grand heritage, the modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...