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La Valse at New York City Ballet - David H. Koch Theater

Dates: (2/21/2014 - 3/1/2014 )

Theatre:

New York City Ballet - David H. Koch Theater


20 Lincoln Center
New York,NY NY 10023

Phone: 212-496-0600

Tickets: $29.00 - $159.00

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"We are dancing on the edge of a volcano," Maurice Ravel wrote in his notes to La Valse. His words are an apt description of both the music and Balanchine's neo-romantic choreography: couples waltzing in a cavernous ballroom where a woman in white is at once horrified and fascinated by the uninvited figure of death.

Intrigued by the disintegration of the waltz form, Ravel envisioned La Valse set in the Imperial Court of Vienna in 1855, and called the score "a choreographic poem … a sort of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz … the mad whirl of some fantastic and fateful carousel." Serge Diaghilev commissioned the score for his Ballets Russes, but rejected it for being "untheatrical." When Balanchine created La Valse in 1951, he found the score to be too short and preceded it with Ravel's Valse Nobles et Sentimentales, eight short waltzes, which establish the mood of the ballet — a mood of superficial gaiety mixed with an uncertain feeling of impending catastrophe.

Cast and Creative team for La Valse at New York City Ballet - David H. Koch Theater

Choreography by: George Balanchine
Music by: Maurice Ravel

Costumes by
Karinska
Set by
Jean Rosenthal
Lighting by
Ronald Bates (original production); Mark Stanley (current production)

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