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Spoleto 52. Festival dei 2 Mondi The dancers of the performance are Principals and Soloists of the New York City Ballet and dance upon authorization of the dance company.
The ballets "In The Night" and "Other Dances" are performed upon authorization of The Robbins Right Trust.
programme
IN THE NIGHT
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Music by Frederic Chopin
played at the piano by Cameron Grant
Costume Designer Anthony Dowell
Dancers Jared Angle, Maria Kowroski, Amar Ramasar, Jenifer Ringer, Jonathan Stafford, Wendy Whelan Inspired by Chopin’s music, In the Night describes the intimate and at times chaotic relation among three couples at a ball. PASSAGE FOR TWO
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Choreography Jerome Robbins
Music by Robert Prince
Dancers Rachel Rutheford
and Craig Hall UPON A GROUND
Choreography and Costume Designer Luca Veggetti
Music: sound project Paolo Aralla Upon a Ground for cello and electro-acoustic device
Dancers Georgina Pazcoguin, Amar Ramasar, Sean Suozzi
Cello Naomi Berrill The performance explores the nature of the relation between music and dance. In other words, the relation among movement, space, time and sound. In their differences, the talent of the dancer and the musician becomes a linguistic universe made of symbols, syntaxes and patterns connected by a tight net of analogies. One teaches the other its own vocabulary within the same stage, a space where the time of sound and of movement coexist in a sort of random polyphony. Commissioned by The Jerome Robbins Foundation as a Tribute to Jerome Robbins
OTHER DANCES
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Music by Frédéric Chopin played at the piano by Cameron Grant
Costume Designer Santo Loquasto
Dancers Gonzalo Garcia, Tiler Peck
Other Dances is a homage to Chopin’s romanticism and to the purity of the classical dance technique. On stage, only two highly dramatic dancers perform a series of dances with folk infusions. | Jerome Robbins
is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies and television. Although he began as a modern dancer, his start on Broadway was as a chorus dancer before joining the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in 1939, where he went on to dance principal roles in the works of Fokine, Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Lichine, and de Mille. His first ballet, Fancy Free (1944) for ABT, still in many repertoires, celebrated its fiftieth birthday on April 18, 1994. While embarking on his career in the theater, Mr. Robbins simultaneously created ballets for New York City Ballet, which he joined in 1949, and became an Associate Artistic Director with George Balanchine. Mr. Robbins has directed for television and film as well, with his co-direction and choreography of West Side Story winning him two Academy Awards. After his Broadway triumph with Fiddler On the Roof in 1964, Mr. Robbins continued creating ballets for New York City Ballet. He shared the position of Ballet-Master-in-Chief with Peter Martins until 1989. He has created more than 60 ballets, including Afternoon of a Faun (1953), The Concert (1956), Les Noces (1965), Dances At a Gathering (1969), In the Night (1970), In G Major (1975), Other Dances (1976), Glass Pieces (1983) and Ives Songs (1989) which are in the repertories of the New York City Ballet, the Ballet de l´Opera de Paris and major dance companies throughout the world. His most recent ballets include A Suite of Dances with Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996) all of which premiered at New York City Ballet. In addition to his two Academy Awards, Mr. Robbins´s awards and citations include four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, two Emmy Awards, the Screen Directors´ Guild Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Mr. Robbins is a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient, was awarded the Commandeur de L´Order des Arts et des Lettres, is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was awarded a National Medal of Arts as well as the Governor´s Arts Awards by the New York State Council on the Arts. Some of his Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam and Fiddler on the Roof. In 1989, Jerome Robbins´s Broadway won six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Director. He was most recently awarded the French Chevalier dans l´Ordre National de la Legion d´Honneur. Jerome Robbins passed away in 1998. Luca Veggetti Born in Bologna Italy in 1963. Trained at La Scala Milan under I.Glowacka and G.Popescu, after a career as a dancer ( London Festival Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Chicago ), Luca Veggetti started, in 1990, an on-going collaboration with stage director and designer Pier Luigi Pizzi as choreographer and assistant working in Europe’s most important theatres and with prestigious musical ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre and Capriccio Stravagante, He was the first Italian choreographer in the 20th cent. to be invited, in 1999, to work with the legendary company of the Kirov Ballet at the Marinsky in St. Petersburg
In 2000 he was the artistic director of a dance event in the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Greece where he created the world premiere of the piece Emmeleia with Julia Makhalina of the Kirov Ballet
In 2002 he created at the Teatro Carignano in Turin Ermafrodito, a dance event centered on the world premiere, in a choreographic version, of Ermafrodito per chitarra by Sylvano Bussotti, assigned to him as a ballet by the composer.
In 2004 he was invited by Peter Martins to participate at two sessions of the New York Choreographic Institute creating November steps (Takemitsu) with School of American Ballet and Duo (Hosokawa) with the New York City Ballet, November steps was also performed in a gala event at the Public Library for the performing arts at Lincoln Center.
In march 2007 the Guggenheim in NY presented, in the series Works&Process, an evening of three of his works on the music of Toshio Hosokawa commissioning the world premiere of Night/Sounds.
In May 2008 he was invited to stage an evening dedicated to Hosokawa at the Saarbruecken festival for new music.
In September 2008 he directed, designed and choreographed at the Miller Theater in NY the world premiere of Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteia in its final complete version.
Future engagements include new pieces for the Ballet of the Rome Opera, Juilliard School NY, Purchase College NY, Spoleto Festival in Italy (commissioned by the Jerome Robbins Foundation with NYCB’s dancers), a new production of Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Hanjo at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo and at the MITO Festival in Italy, a Music/Theater/Dance piece for the Milanoltre Festival in Italy and a Xenakis music/dance evening at Judson Church in NY
Is pursuing a collaboration with contemporary music ensembles such as FontanaMix in Italy, MusikFabrik in Koeln, ICE ensemble in NY as well as with composers Paolo Aralla, Toshio Hosokawa, Sylvano Bussotti and Gerhard Staebler. He as choreographed and designed numerous works, more recently : Night/Sounds (Hosokawa) commissioned by Works&Process at the Guggenheim, NY
Inner Shore (Hosokawa) for the NWPDP in Portland
FOUR/VOICE (Aralla) Miller Theater in coproduction with W&P at the Guggenheim
Apollon Musagete (Stravinsky) Rome Opera Ballet, decor of Giorgio De Chirico
Play for Dancer (Aralla, Scarlini) staging of an experimental theatre piece based on W.B.Yeats’ play for dancers At the hawk’s well, PIM spazio scenico, Milan
Scenario (Aralla, Duras) with Paris Opera’s dancers in Fontainebleau
Variations III (Cage) at the MAMbo, the museum of modern art of Bologna
Oresteia (Xenakis) at the Miller Theater NY in coproduction with W&P at the Guggenheim
Inner Sequence (Aralla, Hosokawa, Sterk, Donatoni, Haas) at the ACFNY
memory/measure (Aralla) Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet NY
Path forgotten (Aralla) at the ACFNY
Orient-Occident (Xenakis) SUNY Purchase NY |
