Word: barocco
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...program. “In the Upper Room” was one of three works excerpted and discussed. Also featured on the program were excerpts from Anthony Tudor’s “Dark Elegies” and George Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco.” “This is a sort of 20th century masterpieces program, so it’s a great chance to see three really superb, really contrasting works by real master choreographers of the 20th century,” Rachel Yurman, the program’s moderator, says...
...that Balanchine cultivated - and glorified in so many of his works. Consider the prevalence today of ballets stripped of fairy-tale plots and elaborate costumes and sets - no story, just a focus on the music and movement. That?s the aesthetic that Balanchine championed in pioneering works like Concerto Barocco (1941), Agon (1957) and Jewels (1967); he taught viewers to find drama solely in the beguiling patterns of his dancers massing, breaking apart, recombining, forming symmetries, tracing variations...