May 29, 2007

Suzanne Farrell at Kennedy Center Next Week

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet will be performing at the Kennedy Center on June 6-10th. (Ballet company website and program/ticket details).

The company will perform two mixed repertory programs:

Program A (Wed., June 6, Thu., June 7, & Sat., June 9 at 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 10 at 1:30 p.m.):
Scotch Symphony (Balanchine/Mendelssohn)
Adagio from Concierto de Mozart (Balanchine/Mozart)
Scène d'amour from Romeo and Juliet (Béjart/Berlioz)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Balanchine/Rodgers, orch. Kay)

Program B (Fri., June 8 & Sun., June 10 at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., June 9 at 1:30 p.m.):
Mozartiana (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)
Scène d'amour from Romeo and Juliet (Béjart/Berlioz)
Divertimento Brillante (Balanchine/Glinka)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Balanchine/Rodgers, orch. Kay)

In preparation for both performances, I've been giving myself a crash course on Balanchine and Farrell. Over the weekend, I rented two wonderful and moving DVDs from NetFlix. (The links below are for Amazon.com):

- A documentary about Balanchine (1984).

- A documentary about Suzanne Farrell - Elusive Muse (1990).

As you'll see from the comments on Amazon, reviewers mostly had nothing but high praise for both of these documentaries.

Over the next week, I'm going to try to read:

- Suzanne Farrell's "Holding on to the Air: An Autobiography," and

- "George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker" by Robert Gottlieb.

Here's a video interview with author Gottlieb about his Balanchine book from the Charlie Rose show - go to the 19:35 minute mark in video to watch:

Trackback Pings