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Kenneth MacMillan created this one-act ballet for the Royal Ballet, setting Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck to music by Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg.
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Kenneth MacMillan created this one-act ballet for the Royal Ballet, setting Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck to music by Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg.
Episodes is a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham and George Balanchine, to compositions by Anton Webern. The ballet was a co-production between the Martha Graham Dance Company and Balanchine's New York City Ballet (NYCB). Though it was conceived to be a collaboration between Graham and Balanchine, leading choreographers in modern dance and neoclassical ballet respectively, they ultimately worked separately on the ballet's two halves. Episodes I was choreographed by Graham, for dancers from her company and four NYCB members, and depicts Mary, Queen of Scots remembering the events in her life before her execution. Episodes II, by Balanchine, is completely plotless, and made for members of the NYCB and Graham dancer Paul Taylor, who originated a solo. The ballet uses all seven orchestral compositions by Webern. Episodes premiered on May 14, 1959, at the City Center of Music and Dance. Starting in 1960, Balanchine's section is presented as a standalone piece, with Taylor's solo removed the following year. Since then, Balanchine's Episodes had been revived by both NYCB and other ballet companies, with Taylor's solo performed in a few rare instances. The complete Episodes has not been seen in full since 1959, and the Graham section had only been revived once, in 1980, with the choreography significantly revised.
A one-act ballet loosely based on the lives of the Brontë family, set to orchestral works by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.
A ballet by Jacques d'Amboise made for New York City Ballet to Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra.
Kenneth MacMillan created this one-act ballet for the Royal Ballet, setting Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck to music by Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg.
Episodes is a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham and George Balanchine, to compositions by Anton Webern. The ballet was a co-production between the Martha Graham Dance Company and Balanchine's New York City Ballet (NYCB). Though it was conceived to be a collaboration between Graham and Balanchine, leading choreographers in modern dance and neoclassical ballet respectively, they ultimately worked separately on the ballet's two halves. Episodes I was choreographed by Graham, for dancers from her company and four NYCB members, and depicts Mary, Queen of Scots remembering the events in her life before her execution. Episodes II, by Balanchine, is completely plotless, and made for members of the NYCB and Graham dancer Paul Taylor, who originated a solo. The ballet uses all seven orchestral compositions by Webern. Episodes premiered on May 14, 1959, at the City Center of Music and Dance. Starting in 1960, Balanchine's section is presented as a standalone piece, with Taylor's solo removed the following year. Since then, Balanchine's Episodes had been revived by both NYCB and other ballet companies, with Taylor's solo performed in a few rare instances. The complete Episodes has not been seen in full since 1959, and the Graham section had only been revived once, in 1980, with the choreography significantly revised.
A one-act ballet loosely based on the lives of the Brontë family, set to orchestral works by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.
A ballet by Jacques d'Amboise made for New York City Ballet to Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra.