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[Helene]

I know "Swan Lake" isn't over yet, but PNB just published the trailer for the "Director's Choice" program, the last rep of the season, which runs from 31 May-1 June and second weekend 6 June-9 June.

The three ballets on the program are:

• "Agon" (Balanchine/Stravinsky)
  
• New Christopher Wheeldon Ballet with music by Jody Talbot
  
• "Diamonds" (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)

Here is the video:


The "Diamonds" clips feature Carla Korbes and Stanko Milov.  I'm not sure who the man is in the first Pas de trois from "Agon"; the women are Maria Chapman and Lesley Rausch.  In the second Pas de trois, I'm fairly certain it's Mara Vinson with Batkhurel Bold and Karel Cruz.  In the "After the Rain 'Pas de deux'" shots, Wheeldon works with Maria Chapman and Karel Cruz, with Kaori Nakamura in the background to the left and Paul Gibson taking notes on the right.  The still at the end is Batkhurel Bold and Lesley Rausch in the "Agon" Pas de deux.

[SandyMcKean]

I have a hard time watching Agon to that music!!

[sandik]

It is an odd fit!

Nicholas Ade?  I might have programs, but they're in the files...

[doug]

It's Benjamin Griffiths in the First Pas de Trois.

[sandik]

Good to know -- many thanks!

[Helene]

Thank you so much, doug!  I thought it might be Ade, too:  I didn't recognize Griffiths.

[Helene]

I just received an email that PNB is offering a 25% Mother's Day sale discount for up to four tickets per household on all Director's Choice performances.  (This doesn't apply to the least expensive tickets or to previously purchased tickets.)  Website prices reflect the discount; the discount code for phone sales is "Glow."

https://www.pnb.org/...d5b7c-291617869

I don't see a deadline.

[Helene]

Peter Boal just tweeted some info on the new Wheeldon work:

@wheeldondance arriving Monday to start choreographing a new piece for four couples to #Jobytalbot's Tide Harmonic

PNB published a new video of Peter Boal talking about the program:

[Helene]

PNB posted a video of Francia Russell rehearsing the first Pas de Trois from "Agon" with two casts.  Allan Dameron is the pianist.

The first cast is Jonathan Poretta with Elizabeth Murphy (light leotard) and Kylee Kitchens (black leotard).

The second cast is Benjamin Griffiths with Brittany Reid (aqua leotard and print skirt) and Chelsea Adomaitis (dark blue leotard).

I'm not having much luck identifying the other people in the studio.  Maybe Ezra Thomson (unless another man also has creative facial hair) and Jessika Anspach (in gray over white).