News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
La Valse show poster

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

Buy Tickets

Phone: 212-496-0600

Tickets: $29.00 - $159.00

  1. View All Off-Off-Broadway Shows
    2.  > 
  2. La Valse

SUBMIT UPDATES

Photos Videos Discount
Cast Creative Edit


"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)
More Local Shows
Add a Off-Off-Broadway Show Listing

Videos

View all Videos

OFF-OFF-BROADWAY SHOWS

4 Musical Tenors: From Broadway To Hollywood in Off-Off-Broadway 4 Musical Tenors: From Broadway To Hollywood
Carnegie Hall (5/23 - 5/23)

LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN Tracker
PHOTOS DISCOUNT
An Evening with Michael Quinn in Off-Off-Broadway An Evening with Michael Quinn
Pangea (4/27 - 4/27)

BUY NOW & SAVE Tracker
How To Give Up on Your Dreams in Off-Off-Broadway How To Give Up on Your Dreams
Caveat (4/28 - 4/28) Tracker
PHOTOS
Gidion's Knot in Off-Off-Broadway Gidion's Knot
Chain Theatre (5/2 - 5/5) Tracker
Concert Series: James Powers and Friends in Off-Off-Broadway Concert Series: James Powers and Friends
Theatre [Untitled] (4/29 - 4/29) Tracker
The Museum of Modern Art Presents Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design in Off-Off-Broadway The Museum of Modern Art Presents Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
The Museum of Modern Art (9/2 - 7/7)
WATERWORKS New Works Festival in Off-Off-Broadway WATERWORKS New Works Festival
Live Arts (5/17 - 6/2)
Take Root Call for Work 2024 Season in Off-Off-Broadway Take Root Call for Work 2024 Season
Green Space (4/23 - 5/15)
Bound For Broadway in Off-Off-Broadway Bound For Broadway
Triad Theater (2/28 - 12/18)
PCDC Season 41 in Off-Off-Broadway PCDC Season 41
KnJ Theater at Peridance (5/3 - 5/5)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW  

Recommended For You