Thursday, October 22, 2015




LINCOLN CENTER

David H. Koch Theater
American Ballet Theater

The Brahms-Haydn Variations
Monotones I and II
The Green Table

I am very excited about see The Green Table this evening.  Carolyn and I saw it almost 30 years ago in San Antonio and found it quite moving.  It was the first "theater" ballet that I remember that was meaningful.  I look forward to seeing it tonight and experiencing what it may or not do for us.  We'll see...

The Brahms-Haydn Variations 
Synopsis:
An ABT commission for the Company's 60th Anniversary in 2000, The Brahms-Haydn Variations bursts with invention as Tharp explores Brahms' shimmering score, while brilliantly reaching a new peak of the choreographer's opus for large-cast classical ballets.

Monotones I and II 
Synopsis:
Pure poetry, these haunting yet elegant pas de trois achieve an eerie otherworldliness of understated intensity, as Ashton reaches the summit of adagio classicism. 
Choreography by: Frederick Ashton
Staged by: Lynn Wallis
Music by: Erik Satie
Costumes by: Frederick Ashton

The Green Table 
Synopsis:
Considered the most powerful antiwar statement ever devised for dance, this indisputable masterpiece opens at a diplomatic conference around a table covered with regulation green cloth, followed by vivid tableaux of the futility of war. 
Choreography by: Kurt Jooss
Staged by: Jeanette Vondersaar
Repetiteur: Claudio Schellino
Music by: F.A. Cohen
Costumes by: Hein Heckroth, Masks by Hermann Markard
Lighting by: Hermann Markard, Lighting Directed by Brad Fields




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