American Repertory Ballet will return to Raritan Valley Community College on March 23 at 8:00pm to present In Full Bloom, an evening of world premieres, Stravinsky, Vivaldi, and more. The program will feature Artistic Director Douglas Martin's brand new Rite of Spring, set to Stravinsky's score, ARB Resident Choreographer Mary Barton's vibrant Five Men and a Concerto, and a new athletic and contemporary work by Patrick Corbin.
"My involvement with Rite of Spring goes back about twenty-five years when I first performed the ballet as an original cast member of the Joffrey's Nijinsky reconstruction," Martin explains. The Joffrey Ballet performed the ballet in 1987 for the first time since it was permiered in 1913 by The Ballet Russes. "Having learned and performed that version dozens of times I feel that the ballet and the music is a part of me. I feel driven by the myriad sounds, working to meld the driving beat with the transient melodies." Martin's Rite of Spring maintains the original ballet's libretto, which is at once a celebratory ode to the advent of spring and a statement on the theme of ritualistic behavior and sacrifice, and puts it in a modern, 20th century office setting.In Full Bloom at Raritan Valley Community College
March 23 at 8:00pm
Tickets: rvccarts.org, 908.725.3420
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