fandeballet Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 If you can only see/have only the top 1-5 works for each choreographer, which pieces would you pick? The only "rule" is no more than five(5) works!!!!! Any choreogrpher is appreciated. A brutal process, especially for some of the masters!!!!!!! :grinning-smiley-001: Link to comment
Alexandra Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 August Bournonville: 1. "A Folk Tale" 2. "La Sylphide" 3. "Napoli" 4. "The King's Volunteers on Amager" 5. "Konservatoriet" Link to comment
oberon Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 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. Link to comment
oberon Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Alexandra, let's see your Balanchine list Link to comment
AmandaNYC Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 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 Link to comment
Alexandra Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 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 Link to comment
Helene Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 (edited) 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.) Edited February 12, 2005 by hockeyfan228 Link to comment
Alexandra Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 Fokine (since he's visiting DC right now): Petrouchka Chopiniana Firebird (I never saw Coq D'Or, or Le Pavilion d'Armide, or Thamar, and I can't judge Scheherezade by any of the productions I've seen, in the theater or on a TV screen) Link to comment
oberon Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 PAVILLON D'ARMIDE has always intrigued me. I wonder if it could be re-constructed...has there ever been a revival? I imagine it would look rather like a faded Valentine to modern eyes. Link to comment
Alexandra Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 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. Link to comment
Hans Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Oh, this is easy. Petipa: Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake Raymonda Don Quixote La Bayadere Link to comment
carbro Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Ahem. Except that most of what we think of when we hear "Swan Lake" is Ivanov's work. Now, I would certainly not hesitate to put Swan Lake among Ivanov's top two. Link to comment
Hans Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Along with the Little Humpbacked Horse? 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! Link to comment
carbro Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Along with the Little Humpbacked Horse? Okay, then. Among the top three. Link to comment
atm711 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 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. Link to comment
Quiggin Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 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 Link to comment
richard53dog Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 and all those Swan Lakes, Sleeping Beauties, and Giselles out there by Lord only knows what choreographer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ha, ha. How true! But yes to Balanchine's T&V (but not the rest of Suite #3) and yes to Concerto Barocco Also for Balanchine ( to go up to the 5 limit) Nutcracker, Symphony in C Swan Lake Link to comment
Paul Parish Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 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 Link to comment
Hans Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 If Paul gets to put Swan Lake in his Petipa list, then so do I! Link to comment
carbro Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Touche! And I guess Little Humpbacked Horse is then one of Ivanov's two best works. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Well, if we need an addition to Ivanov, we can always tentatively add "Prince Igor". Seems there's a considerable body of thought that holds that Fokine's staging was only a rehash of Ivanov's work, with a little tightening. Link to comment
Ari Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 This is getting a bit , 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. Link to comment
Andrei Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 The Little Humpbacked Horse was choreographed by Saint-Leon in 1864. In my knowledge nobody touched his work till it past away in 1963. Link to comment
accob Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Balanchine- Serenade The Four Temperaments Who Cares? Apollo Stars and Stripes Martins- Thou Swell Morgen Todo Buenos Aires Wheeldon- After the Rain Liturgy MacMillan- Romeo and Juliet Swan Lake and Giselle Link to comment
Gina Ness Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Ballets of Lew Christensen: A great American choreographer... The Nutcracker Beauty and the Beast Il Distrato Con Amore Filling Station Jinx Vivaldi Concerto Grosso Link to comment
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