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2011-2012 Season
Principal Dancer Riolama Lorenzo & former Company Member Maximilien Baud in Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev
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Principal Dancer Arantxa Ochoa & former Principal Dancer James Ady. Photo: Paul Kolnik Soloist Barette Vance. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev
“The 2011-2012 Season is brimming with striking new work including four Company premieres, lush audience favorites, and unforgettable Balanchine masterpieces.
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Principal Dancer Julie Diana in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo: Paul Kolnik
RUSSIAN SUITE Ratmansky & Balanchine
Featuring the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra
Raymonda Variations
George Balanchine // Music by Alexander Glazunov
Jeu de Cartes
North American & Company Premiere
Alexei Ratmansky // Music by Igor Stravinsky
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
George Balanchine // Music by Richard Rodgers
“Exploded with bright ideas and even brighter steps...” – Clement Crisp, The Financial Times
Witness history as Alexei Ratmansky’s bold Jeu de Cartes premieres in North America. This vigorous, abstract work crafts a visual expression of Stravinsky’s score of the same name. The French title translates to “The Card Game,” which for Ratmansky, simply addresses the “gamble” of choreographing to Stravinsky’s musical complexities. Two diverse Balanchine treasures complete the program. Raymonda Variations is a grand lesson in classical technique, featuring a principal couple and corps. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue offers a sassy one-act parody of Broadway, Russian ballet, and the mob. October 2011 Academy of Music Before the Curtain: Thursday, October 20, 6 pm Prologue: Friday, October 21, 6 pm Thu Fri Sat Sun 20 21 22 23 2 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 8 pm
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Principal Dancer Riolama Lorenzo & Soloist Jermel Johnson in Matthew Neenan’s Keep. Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Robert Weiss’ Messiah. Photos: Alexander Iziliaev
PUSHING BOUNDARIES Forsythe & Neenan
MESSIAH
Robert Weiss // Music by George Frideric Handel Featuring the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra
Artifact Suite
Company premiere
William Forsythe // Music by Johann Sebastian Bach & Eva Crossman-Hecht
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“A work of stunning simplicity…” – Janet Anderson, City Paper
Matthew Neenan // Music by Alexander Borodin & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Drenched the audience with its emotional complexity…” – Lindsay Warner, The Bulletin
Explore the physical and emotional frontiers of classical ballet with two innovative contemporary works. Artifact Suite offers William Forsythe’s singular brand of unexpected musicality and marathon movement. An ensemble of 18 dancers flies unceasingly throughout the stage, employing Forsythe’s daring interpretation of the ballet lexicon with lightening-quick rhythm, to-the-hilt extension, and unmatched precision. Choreographer in Residence Matthew Neenan creates poignant magic with the return of his acclaimed work, Keep. Commissioned in 2009, Keep delves into the challenges of love and relationships through passionate pas de deux. An intimate, sensitive piece, Keep features vibrant costumes designed by Martha Chamberlain.
Messiah opens with a full choir on stage in a skeletal abstraction of a church. With sun streaming through the bare windows, dancers take the stage in a vivid, dramatic interpretation of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
March 2012 Academy of Music Before the Curtain: Thursday, March 8, 6 pm Prologue: Friday, March 9, 6 pm Saturday Matinee Series: Saturday, March 10, 2 pm Saturday Evening Series: Saturday, March 17, 8 pm
February 2012 Merriam Theater
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Inspirational. Moving. Pure. With Messiah, choreographer Robert Weiss creates an enthralling, epic ballet that translates Handel’s world-famous libretto to the stage. The former Artistic Director of Pennsylvania Ballet, Weiss employs more than 50 individual scenes to convey an emotional spectrum of joy, suffering, passion, and redemption.
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Sara Webb, and Randy Herrera. Photo: Jim Caldwell, Courtesy of Houston Ballet | Principal Dancer Riolama Lorenzo & former Company Member Maximilien Baud in Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev | Timothy O’Keefe in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan. Photo: Jim Caldwell, Courtesy of Houston Ballet
PETER PAN
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Trey McIntyre // Music by Sir Edward Elgar, arranged by Niel DePonte Featuring the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra
“The most impressive, original, multi-act ballet created by an American choreographer in recent memory…” – Robert Greskovic, DanceView
Escape to Neverland with this whimsical ballet starring the boy who never grew up. Based on the classic story by Sir James M. Barrie, Peter Pan takes you on an adventure with all your favorite characters, including the Darling children and Captain Hook himself. Choreographer Trey McIntyre reinterprets the fairy tale with a twist for the new millennium, complete with spectacular flying sequences, swashbuckling swordfights, and costumes inspired by punk fashion. Peter Pan is the perfect introduction to dance for audiences of all ages. Bring the whole family to this ballet they’ll never, never forget. May 2012 Academy of Music Before the Curtain: Thursday, May 3, 6 pm Prologue: Friday, May 4, 6 pm
Company premiere
Jerome Robbins // Music by Robert Prince
Barber Violin Concerto
Peter Martins // Music by Samuel Barber
World Premiere Matthew Neenan
“Full of spunk, emotion, and choreographic ingenuity…” – John Rockwell, The New York Times
Feel the flavor of the city that never sleeps with Jerome Robbins’ N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz. Robbins’ “ballet in sneakers,” celebrates the youth and vitality of the era in which it emerged: the distinctly cool 1950’s. N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz adopts the spirit of Robbins’ renowned musical, West Side Story, with Broadway-style theatricality saturating this series of dances. Also on the bill, Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto showcases two couples, bathed in white, performing brilliant pas de deux that exhibit the range between classical ballet and modern dance.
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Choreographer in Residence Matthew Neenan’s muchanticipated 13th commission for the Company completes
Saturday Matinee Series: Saturday, May 12, 2 pm Saturday Evening Series: Saturday, May 12, 8 pm Sunday Series: Sunday, May 6, 2 pm
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May - June 2012 Merriam Theater Before the Curtain: Thursday, May 31, 6 pm Prologue: Friday, June 1, 6 pm Thu Fri Sat Sun 31 1 2 3 2 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 8 pm
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Principal Dancer Arantxa Ochoa, Soloist Francis Veyette, and Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™, choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photos: Alexander Iziliaev
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Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Robert Weiss’ Messiah | Photo: Alexander Iziliaev
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