Scènes de Ballet (Wheeldon)
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Scénes de ballet was made on students from the School of American Ballet
by Christopher Wheeldon
to Stravinsky's
eponymous music from 1944 and is Wheeldon's second work for NYCB. The premiere took place on Wednesday, May 19th, 1999, at the New York State Theater with costumes by Holly Hynes
and set designed by Ian Falconer
, a Russian ballet studio with bisected by a "real" barre and an imaginary mirror. 62 SAB students ranging from the very young to those in their last year of study are divided between "real" dancers and their "reflections" in the "mirror".
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...
by Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher 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...
to Stravinsky's
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
eponymous music from 1944 and is Wheeldon's second work for NYCB. The premiere took place on Wednesday, May 19th, 1999, at the New York State Theater with costumes by Holly Hynes
Holly Hynes
Holly Hynes is an accomplished costume designer with over 170 ballets to her credit, including more than 60 at New York City Ballet. Ms. Hynes' designs are also on view in companies around the world, including American Ballet Theatre; National Ballet of Canada; The Kirov Ballet of St...
and set designed by Ian Falconer
Ian Falconer
Ian Woodwark Falconer is an American illustrator, children's book author, and costume and set designer for the theater. He has created 30 covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications...
, a Russian ballet studio with bisected by a "real" barre and an imaginary mirror. 62 SAB students ranging from the very young to those in their last year of study are divided between "real" dancers and their "reflections" in the "mirror".
original
- young dancers
- Isabel Vondermuhll
- Jan Burkhard
- Zakary Yermolenko
- Ryan Cardea
first cast
- Kathryn Morgan
- Jérôme Tisserand
second cast
- Tabitha Rinko-Gay
- Justin Peck
2010
- Beatriz Stix-BrunellBeatriz Stix-BrunellBeatriz Stix-Brunell is a ballet dancer presently dancing with The Royal Ballet. She previously danced with Morphoses.Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de...
- Chase Swatosh
Reviews
- NY 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 21st, 1999 - NY Times, Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, May 30th, 2006
- NY Times, John RockwellJohn RockwellJohn Rockwell is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture....
, June 7th, 2006 - NY Times, Roslyn SulcasRoslyn SulcasRoslyn Sulcas is a dance critic for the New York Times. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied English literature in college, receiving a post-graduate degree from York University in England. While finishing her thesis she lived in Paris, where she began writing for the British Dance...
, June 10th, 2010
Articles
- NY Times, Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, February 19th, 2006