PAS DE DEUX, SOLO OR MODERN WORK TO BE
ANNOUNCED
GO FOR BAROCCO
MUSIC BY J.S. BACH
CHOREOGRAPHY BY PETER ANASTOS
COSTUMES BY MIKE GONZALES
LIGHTING BY KIP MARSH
Stylistic heir to Balanchine's Middle-Blue-Verging-On-Blackand
White Period, this ballet has become a primer in
identifying stark coolness and choreosymphonic delineation in
the new(neo) neo-new classic dance. It has been called a
wristwatch for Balanchine clock-time.
First Movement (Moderato)
Eugenia Repelskii and Alla Snizova
With
Ludmila Beaulemova, Nina Immobilashvili,
Elvira Khababgallina, Guzella Verbitskaya
Second Movement (Adagio)
Eugenia Repelskii and Alla Snizova
Third Movement (Allegro)
ALL
~ intermission ~
RAYMONDA'S WEDDING
A TRADITIONALLY CONFUSING DIVERTISSEMENT IN
TWO SCENES
MUSIC BY ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
CHOREOGRAPHY AFTER MARIUS PETIPA
COSTUMES BY MIKE GONZALES and KEN BUSBIN
DECOR BY chas. b. slackman
LIGHTING BY KIP MARSH
Raymonda, a ballet in three acts and fifteen scenes based on
the scenario by L. Pashkova, has baffled audiences since its
premiere at the Maryinsky (then Kirov, now Maryinsky) Theater
in 1898. The plot, which loses something in translation, is as
follows:
Count Jean de Brienne (a knight), betrothed to Raymonda (a
young Hungarian noblewoman), abandons her to join the
Crusades against the Saracens. In his absence, Abdourahman
(a Saracen Emir), woos Raymonda. When she rejects him, he
attempts to abduct her. De Brienne, assisted by The White
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