Balanchine @ PNB

Pacific Northwest Ballet are currently presenting an all-Balanchine programme and they have very kindly sent me this Angela Sterling photo of PNB dancers Laura Gilbreath and William Lin-Yee in THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS which shares the bill with SERENADE and SQUARE DANCE. The programme runs thru April 25th. Watch a related video here.

Meanwhile, we can look forward to seeing a contingent of Pacific Northwest dancers here in New York City when they present a programme entitled Balanchine's Petipa at the Guggenheim. Here are the details:

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Present:

Pacific Northwest Ballet – Balanchine’s Petipa
Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15, 7:30 pm

Pacific Northwest Ballet Education Programs Manager Doug Fullington will give a presentation of Balanchine’s Petipa as part of Works & Process at the Guggenheim. The presentation’s lecture-demonstration format will feature performances by PNB company members and discussion of dances by both Marius Petipa and George Balanchine.

Balanchine’s Petipa explores the influence of the choreography of Marius Petipa (1818-1910) and his colleagues at the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg on the choreography of George Balanchine (1904-1983), with a particular focus on choreography for men. The program’s Balanchine excerpts have been staged by Peter Boal, Elyse Borne, Frederic Franklin, and Francia Russell. The 19^th-century dances have been reconstructed by Mr. Fullington using notations made in St. Petersburg in the Stepanov notation method at the turn of the 20^th century.

PROGRAM (Programming subject to change)
Excerpts from 19^th-century ballets will include The Awakening of Flora, La Bayadère, The Nutcracker, Paquita, Raymonda, The Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake.

Excerpts from Balanchine ballets will include Apollo, Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée”, Divertimento No. 15, Emeralds, Prodigal Son, Raymonda (1946), Raymonda Variations, and Theme and Variations.

CAST
PNB Principals
Carla Körbes, Kaori Nakamura, Mara Vinson and former principal Le Yin.

PNB Soloists
Benjamin Griffiths, James Moore, Seth Orza, and Lesley Rausch

Allan Dameron, PNB Acting Music Director and Conductor

LOCATION

Peter B. Lewis Theater
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
Subway – 4, 5, 6 train to 86th Street
Bus – M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus on Madison or Fifth Avenue

TICKETS

$30 General
$25 Guggenheim Members
$10 Students (25 and under with valid student ID)
(212) 423-3587, M-F, 1–5 PM or visit worksandprocess.org

Comments

[Laura]

I love the Works & Process presentations at the Guggenheim! I will definitely try for a ticket one of two days (although my experience shows they sell out pretty quickly!)