Celebrated choreographer George Balanchine’s ballet Jewels has returned to its New York birthplace!
Balanchine first choreographed this dazzling piece in 1967 for The New York City Ballet, a company that he himself co-founded. The performance piece is credited as the first full-length, abstract ballet.
Jewels consists of three unrelated, yet beautifully linked acts, set to the music of three different composers with distinct choreography styles.
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Emeralds
The first act, “Emeralds,” is set to the music of Fauré, and Balanchine considered it to be “an evocation of France – the France of elegance, comfort, dress, perfume.”
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Rubies
“Rubies,”the second act, is set to music composed by Stravinsky and is meant to represent the jazz-age fire in our very own New York.
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Diamonds
The final act, “Diamonds,” conveys the grandeur of Balanchine’s native Imperial Russia, which is reinforced by Tschaikovsky’s majestic Symphony No. 3.
Each act represents a different era in classical ballet as well as individual periods in Balanchine’s own life. Although Jewels happens to be a “plotless” ballet, it has the ability to evoke a wide range of emotion from its audience. It is romance, exhiliaration, and drama in one glittering production.
Performances will begin on January 22nd, 2014.
For tickets and information please visit: nycballet.com