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KIROV BALLET & ORCHESTRA NEW YORK CITY CENTER SEASON
(Apr 1-Apr 20, 2008)
APPROXIMATE SONATA | BALLET
IMPERIAL | LA BAYADERE | CHOPINIANA |
DIANA AND ACTEON | DON
QUIXOTE | ETUDES | JEWELS | IN
THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED | LE SPECTRE
DE LA ROSE | PAQUITA | PIANO
CONCERTO NO. 2 | RAYMONDA | SCHEHEREZADE | SERENADE | STEPTEXT | LE CORSAIRE-LE JARDIN ANIMEE
Chopiniana Choreographic composition in one act Music by FREDERIX CHOPIN World premiere: 8 March 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Michael Fokine considered that as soon as art becomes real, it goes “against the current” (his memoirs full of polemic scorn, were entitled Against the Current). Attacking the previous era, the era of Petipa, he changed the image of the Russian ballet in just a few years. But he made his main discovery in a totally unexpected place. In creating Chopiniana, he fell in love-almost through Petipa’s eyes- with some ancient engravings of Taglioni, he dressed his dancers in long romantic tunics (they have since been known as “chopenki” in ballet slang) and made them forget the “steel pointe”, the whirling turns and bravura confidence of Marius Petipa’s virtuoso ballerinas.A semi-dance, semi-whisper, semi-poses, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky in the main roles, twilight. This stylization was colored by introspection of the 20th century. But it was Chopiniana that returned currency to academic ballet, and its Grand pas, which taught the public to watch “pure dance”, without a subject, justifies itself, sharing the right of expressiveness only with the music. CLICK HERE TO SEE A FULL PROGRAM
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