ABT premieres by Tharp, Duato, and Selya at City Center.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--"ABT ABT About ABT Abteilung (German: Department) ABT Abbott Laboratories (stock symbol) ABT American Ballet Theatre ABT Associação Brasileira de Telemarketing ABT Abort ABT Availability Based Tariff has always been characterized by a blending of the classical, like Antony Tudor, and the new, like Twyla Tharp," says executive director Michael Kaiser. "In addition to performing the works of masters, ABT has always extended to the dancers an opportunity to create new works." True to form, the company's fall season at New York's City Center, October 27-November 8, features an amalgam of dances past and present. Twyla Tharp comes back to the ABT fold with a world premiere, untitled at press time, scheduled to be danced by six of ABT's brightest: Susan Jaffe, Ethan Stiefel, Julie Kent, Angel Corella, Griff n. 1. Grasp; reach. A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff. - Holland. 2. (Weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. Braun, and Keith Roberts. The new piece is set to music by, among others, Steve Reich and Donald Knaack. Choreographer Nacho Duato, artistic director of Madrid's Compania Nacional de Danza, will present a new ballet set to Franz Schubert songs arranged for cello and piano, to be performed by Mischa Maisky. Duato's first work for ABT, Remanso, was danced at last year's City Center season (ABT's first fall season at that venue). Continuing in ABT's long tradition of company members trying their choreographic hand, corps de ballet corps de bal·let n. The dancers in a ballet troupe who perform as a group. [French : corps, corps + de, of + ballet, ballet. member John Selya, who has been in the company since 1988, offers his latest work, set to Dimitri Shostakovich's Jazz Suite. Selya's previous pieces for ABT include Moondance (1992), Jack and Jill (1992), Don't Panic (1996), and Turnstyle (1997). Selya is following in the footsteps of one of ABT's dance and choreographic legends, Jerome Robbins, an early member of ABT who died last July [See Jerome Robbins: An Appreciation, page 54]. The company performs Robbins's first work for ABT, Fancy Free, which tells of three sailors on shore leave in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Robbins created the work in 1944 and starred in the production, along with Harold Lang, John Kriza, Muriel Bentley, Janet Reed, Shirley Eckl, and Rex Cooper. Rounding out the performances at City Center, which Kaiser says is "a more intimate setting where you can see the dancers' expressions and which draws a diverse, young audience," is the company premiere of John Neumeier's Spring and Fall and revivals of Tudor's Gala Performance and Anton Dolin's Variations for Four. Clark Tippet's Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Victor Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique, Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, Agnes de Mille's Rodeo, Jiri Kylian's Sinfonietta sin·fo·niet·ta n. 1. A symphony that is shorter than usual or that calls for fewer than the usual number of instruments. 2. A small symphony orchestra, especially one consisting of stringed instruments only. , and the pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or from Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. are also scheduled. |
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