Natalia Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 The Kennedy Center's website has posted the titles of ballets to be performed in DC next spring. PROGRAM A - All American (Timing: Approx. 2-1/2 hours, with two 20-minute intermissions) Apr. 3, 5, 6 eves & 7 mat. Who Cares? (Balanchine/Gershwin, arr. Kay) Fearful Symmetries (Martins/Adams) West Side Story (Robbins/Bernstein) PROGRAM B - 21st Century (Timing: Approx. 2-1/4 hours, with two 20-minute intermissions) Apr. 4 & 7 eves & 8 mat. New Wheeldon (Wheeldon/Bizet) Russian Seasons (Ratmansky/Desyatnikov) Hallelujah Junction (Martins/Adams) Source: http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=BMBSF
Dale Posted November 4, 2011 Posted November 4, 2011 (edited) Kind of blah. Unless you haven't seen Russian Seasons and are interested in that. Two Martins pieces; just one Balanchine and one Robbins. Edited November 4, 2011 by Dale fixed a number
Natalia Posted November 4, 2011 Author Posted November 4, 2011 Kind of blah. Unless you haven't seen Russian Seasons and are interested in that. Two Martins pieces; just one Balanchine and no Robbins. No kiddin'. There's a Robbins...but 'Broadway Robbins,' rather than 'Balletic Robbins.' The one Balanchine is of the toe-tapping Broadway genre, rather than one of his more sublime works. I've seen Russian Seasons, so am inclined to skip the entire run unless the 'new Wheeldon' is semi-serious and not another Broadway-style pandering to non-balletic audience.
koshka Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) Might be blah if you've seen all of these pieces before, but I don't think I've seen any of them so far so I'm looking forward to it. But once of each program will probably be enough. Thanks for the heads-up! Edited November 6, 2011 by koshka
Ray Posted November 5, 2011 Posted November 5, 2011 After the "Black and Whites" programming of last year, this suggests that they are just going to bring what's handy. A shame that they don't program more thoughtfully.
cinnamonswirl Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 Boooooo. Depending on what the new Wheeldon is like, each program may have one good ballet (Who Cares, Russian Seasons), a clunker (Martins) and a blah ballet. I guess NYCB thinks we got enough Balanchine last year.
kfw Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 We're lucky the company brings relatively few Martins ballets to Washington. Fortunately, I happen to like John Adams. A new ballet by one of the two most acclaimed choreographers working today and a celebrated work by another makes #2 a strong bill in my opinion, and the Balanchine/Gershwin and Robbins/Bernstein pieces on the same program ought to please a lot of people.
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