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Les Présages
Choreography: Leonide Massine
Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Translated into “the omens,” Les Présages is an allegory of the fight between good and evil. This dynamic work revolutionized the art form by being the first ballet ever set to a complete
symphony — Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. The costumes and sets were designed by 1930’s expressionist artist, André Masson.
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Le Sacre Du Printemps
Choreography: Vaslaw Nijinsky
Music: Igor Stravinsky.
In 1987, the Joffrey Ballet received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant in Dance of $243,400 to support three self-produced seasons in New York City and Los Angeles, and the reconstruction of Vaslav Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. The reconstruction was the culmination of more than 15 years of work by Millicent Hodson, a choreographer and dance historian, and her husband Kenneth Archer, an art historian. Hodson and Archer had painstakingly pieced the ballet together from prompt books, contemporary sketches, paintings, photographs, reviews, the original costume designs, annotated scores, and interviews with eye witnesses, such as Dame Marie Rambert, Nijinsky’s assistant. The ballet was performed again in 2002. This video is from that performance.
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Green Table
Choreography: Kurt Jooss
Music: Frederick Cohen
Perhaps the most powerful and important anti-war statement ever created for the stage, The Green Table uses masks and simple props to demonstrate the timeless ravages of war. This ballet remains a signature
piece for The Joffrey and one of the greatest works of the 20th Century.
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Apollo
Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Created in 1928 for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, this Balanchine masterwork was one of the first that ushered in a new era of dance—the cool, clear neoclassical style. In Apollo, Balanchine also
forged his relationship with the composer who shaped 20th-century music, Igor Stravinsky–an artistic collaboration that would produce dozens of ballets, among them some of the most influential and
beloved works of the century. Elegant, witty and utterly beautiful, Apollo loosely tells the story of the young god’s birth and growth as he leads three of his muses-of poetry, mime, and dance—in
a final ascent to Mount Olympus.
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The Joffrey Ballet on Dance Channel TV
Interviewer: Anna Lux
Anna Lux interviews Joffrey Ballet dancers Fabrice Calmels and Valerie Robin. Also included are rehersal exerpts and patron interviews during Joffrey’s recent visit to Los Angeles. This is a video feed from dancechanneltv.com.
