Echo (ballet)
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Echo is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
balletmaster (subsequently balletmaster in chief) Peter Martins
to Michael Torke
's Slate (1989). The premiere took place on June 15, 1989, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
. Echo was the third in a series of collaborations between the choreographer and composer.
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 (subsequently balletmaster in chief) Peter Martins
Peter Martins
Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
to Michael Torke
Michael Torke
Michael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. Other works...
's Slate (1989). The premiere took place on June 15, 1989, at the New York State 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:...
. Echo was the third in a series of collaborations between the choreographer and composer.
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- Kyra Nichols
- Heather WattsHeather WattsHeather Watts was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. A native of California, Ms. Watts was born as Linda Heather Watts in Long Beach on September 27, 1953. She started taking up ballet at the age of 10, came to New York at the age of 13 on a Ford Foundation scholarship to attend the...
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See also
- AshAsh (ballet)Ash is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Ash by Michael Torke. The premiere took place Thursday, June 20th, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
- Black and WhiteBlack and White (ballet)Black and White is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster, subsequently balletmaster in chief, Peter Martins to some of Michael Torke's eponymous music which was commissioned for City Ballet's American Music Festival; the premiere took place May 7, 1988, at the New York State Theater,...
- Ecstatic OrangeEcstatic OrangeEcstatic Orange is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Michael Torke's Verdant Music , Purple and Ecstatic Orange for City Ballet's American Music Festival; the second movement, Purple, was to a score commissioned for the occasion...
Articles
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D6163EF934A35754C0A967958260Sunday NY Times by 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...
, July 7, 1991]
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3D61730F934A25755C0A96F948260NY Times by 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 17, 1989]
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4D7133EF934A35752C0A966958260NY Times by 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 7, 1990]