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Pick The Top Works Of Each Choreographer


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Not listed in any particular order...

Balanchine: 4 TEMPS, SYMPHONY IN C, SERENADE, TCHAIKOVSKY SUITE #3, and a 25-way tie for #5!!!

Robbins: OPUS 19/THE DREAMER; IN G MAJOR; ANTIQUE EPIGRAPHS; GLASS PIECES; EVENINGS WALTZES.

Martins: BURLESKE, HALLELUJAH JUNCTION, CONCERTI ARMONICI, FEARFUL SYMMETRIES, BARBER VIOLIN CONCERTO

Wheeldon: MORPHESES, POLYPHONIA, LITURGY, MERCURIAL MANOUVRES, SHAMBARDS

I think I could live on a desert island for quite a few years with only these works available...and also SWAN LAKE & Kingdom of the Shades.

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Balanchine: Serenade, Symphony in C, Concerto Barocco, Square Dance, Stars & Stripes (even if just the men's regiment)

Robbins: Glass Pieces, In G Major, Gershwin Concerto, The Cage, West Side Story Suite (if that counts)

Martins: Ash, Fearful Symmetries

Wheeldon: Liturgy

-amanda

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Balanchine:

Apollo

Serenade

The Four Temperaments

Liebeslieder Walzer

Jewels (for its daring; but on alternate Tuesdays I'd choose something else. I'm high on "La Valse" right now.)

Ashton:

Symphonic Variations

Scenes de ballet

The Dream

La Fille Mal Gardee

Enigma Variations

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Balanchine:

Liebeslieder Walzer, Symphony in C, Agon, Divertimento No. 15, Episodes

Stowell:

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, Silver Lining

Robbins:

Fancy Free, the opening of Fiddler on the Roof (the musical), West Side Story (the movie -- I've never seen the musical), The Cage

I've never seen Brandenbergs, but I've heard it's great and am saving it a place, just in case. Otherwise, #5 would be Afternoon of a Faun

What, no Chopin piano ballets? :)

Martins

Calcium Light Night, Schubertiade, oops, almost forgot Concerto for Two Solo Pianos

(Still waiting for the rest)

Ashton

La Fille Mal Gardee, A Month in the Country.

(Thanks to Paul Parish, for reminding me of A Month in the Country.)

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It was revived for Baryshnikov in the mid-1970s. That's the last I've heard of it, and I don't remember who staged it. I only remember favorable comments, but I'm generally of that opinion that whether ballets look faded, or interesting, etc., is completely dependent on how they're staged and how they're danced. I've been re-reading the Taper biography of "Balanchine" and just rediscovered the story of how Diaghilev cut Terpsichore's solo (!!!) over Balanchine's protests, because he said it was "boring." Balanchine argued that it wasn't his solo that was boring, but the dancer (who was not Balanchine's choice for the role). I'm with him on that one :)

Re Pavilion, the only thing I remember about that staging is that the article (most likely in "Dance and Dancers") quoted Baryshnikov as commenting after the performance on the strength of Nijinsky's thighs.

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Along with the Little Humpbacked Horse? :flowers::clapping:

More seriously...

Does Le Corsaire count? Petipa re-worked it so extensively that it can't have borne much resemblance to the early 19C original.

How sad that we can't even come up with five ballets for one of the "Big Three" choreographers...I suppose it really makes you appreciate just how great and influential his surviving ballets are!

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Balanchine:

Apollo, Concerto Barocco, Danses Concertantes (but only with the original Berman costumes) Theme and Variations, Agon.

Robbins:

Dances at a Gathering, Afternoon of a Faun

Fokine:

Les Sylphides, Le Carnaval

Ashton:

Facade, Les Patineurs, The Dream

and all those Swan Lakes, Sleeping Beauties, and Giselles out there by Lord only knows what choreographer.

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My favorites impulsively include:

Balanchine:

Cotillion (from Balanchine biography clip and descriptions in various biographies)

Symphony in C (or Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet)

Agon (with Darcey Bussell)

Concertino (from Eglevsky clip)

La Valse

Fokine:

Sylphides (based on recent Kirov performance and Maria Tallchief/Royes Fernandez clip)

Ashton

Symphonic Variations (last year's SFBallet version with Julie Diana)

Non Ballet

Daniel Nagarn log dance

Gene Kelly newspaper dance

Fred Astaire turning room dance

Margo Jenkins early vaguely remembered piece

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A quirky list

Balanchine: Serenade, Symphony in C, 4 T's, Nutcracker, Steadfast Tin SOldier

Robbins: Dances at a Gathering, Fancy Free, Fiddler on hte Roof, Glass Pieces, High Button Shoes

Petipa: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Giselle

Ashton: La Fille Mal Gardee, The Dream, A Month in hte COuntry, Enigma Variations, Monotones

Paul Taylor: Big Bertha, Three Epitaphs, Company B, the Bach COncerto, Last Look

Martha Gaham: Primitive Mysteries, Appalachian Spring, Lamentation, Deaths and Entrances, that New Mexico piece

Merce Cunningham: SOunddance, Summerspace, Pictures, Rainforest, Septet

MarkMorris: Maelstrom; l"Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato; Dido and Aeneas, Shroud of White; Jealousy

Saint-Leon: Coppellia, la Vivandiere

bOURNONVILLE: la Sylphide, A Folk Tale, Napoli, Lifeguards, Konservatoriet

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This is getting a bit :P , but there are those who argue that the white acts of Swan Lake were indeed Petipa's work, not Ivanov's as the Russians have insisted for years. Several years ago Dance View published an article by, I think, George Jackson (? correct me if I'm wrong, Alexandra) that made the case for that. Unfortunately it's not in the online archives.

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