2 and 3 Part Inventions
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2 and 3 Part Inventions is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
on students at its affiliated school, the School of American Ballet
, to Bach's
Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV
772–801, (1720–23). The premiere took place on Saturday, June 4th, 1994, at the Juilliard Theater, Lincoln Center
. The City Ballet premiere was Thursday, January 19th, 1995, and it was revived for City Ballet's 90th anniversary celebration of the choreographer, performed again by students from S.A.B.
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
on students at its affiliated school, the School of American Ballet
School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...
, to Bach's
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV
BWV
The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis is the numbering system identifying compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prefix BWV, followed by the work's number, is the shorthand identification for Bach's compositions...
772–801, (1720–23). The premiere took place on Saturday, June 4th, 1994, at the Juilliard Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
. The City Ballet premiere was Thursday, January 19th, 1995, and it was revived for City Ballet's 90th anniversary celebration of the choreographer, performed again by students from S.A.B.
original SAB
- Kristina Fernandez
- Eliane Munier
- Riolama Lorenzo
- Jennifer Chipman
- Benjamin MillepiedBenjamin MillepiedBenjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
- Amaury Lebrun
- Alex Ketley
- Seth Belliston
NYCB premiere
- Wendy WhelanWendy WhelanWendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
- Jenifer Ringer
- Samantha Allen
- Miranda Weese
- Ethan StiefelEthan StiefelEthan Stiefel is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre . His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT.-Biography:...
- Alexander Ritter
- Christopher WheeldonChristopher WheeldonChristopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
- James Fayette
1998 Spring
- Kristina Fernandez
- Emily Coates
- Samantha Allen
- Pascale van Kipnis
- Arch HigginsArch HigginsArch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...
- Benjamin MillepiedBenjamin MillepiedBenjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
- Christopher WheeldonChristopher WheeldonChristopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
- James Fayette
2008 Spring: Jerome Robbins celebration
- Kristen Segin
- Adriana Piercy
- Lydia Wellington
- Ashley Isaacs
- Chase FinlayChase FinlayChase Finlay is a soloist with the New York City Ballet. While still a member of the corps de ballet, he has soloed in the George Balanchine's Apollo. .-External Links:* * , Gia Kourlas, June 2, 2011...
- Sam Greenberg
- Michael Tucker
- Michael Rosen
Articles
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/arts/dance/05kiss.htmlNY Times, Anna KisselgoffAnna KisselgoffAnna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
, April 5th, 2005]
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E0DA1E31F932A25756C0A96E958260NY Times, Anna KisselgoffAnna KisselgoffAnna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
, May 11th, 1998]
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DD173AF935A35755C0A962958260NY Times, Anna KisselgoffAnna KisselgoffAnna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
, June 6th, 1994] - http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/21/arts/dance-review-from-bach-to-his-son-to-city-ballet.htmlNY Times, Anna KisselgoffAnna KisselgoffAnna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
, January 21st, 1995]
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DC1E3DF93BA25752C0A9679C8B63NY Times, Jack AndersonJack Anderson (dance critic)Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...
, January 18th, 2001] - NY Times, Gia Kourlas, June 16th, 2008