October 29 - November 2, 2008
Ballo della Regina
Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Kazimir’s Colours
Company Premiere
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Push Comes to Shove
Company Premiere
Choreography: Twyla Tharp
Music: Joseph Haydn and Joseph Lamb (arr. David Bourne)
Pennsylvania Ballet’s 45th Season begins with a pageant of pastels and precision in Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina, a 17-minute tour de force of virtuoso variations and ballerina bravura that merits its translation, “Dance for the Queen”.
Inspired by Russian painter Kazimir Malevich and set to Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra, Mauro Bigonzetti’s Kazimir’s Colours explores the inter-relationships between joy and light, romance and lyricism, geometric forms and abstraction while adhering to classic technique.
The evening is capped off with Twyla Tharp’s comedic tale of a male soloist’s struggle to navigate a world that demands structure. One of the dance arena’s most widely recognized “cross-over” ballets, Push Comes to Shove is a cornerstone piece in the Tharp canon that pushes through barriers of ballet and shoves modern dance to center stage in her signature style.
Individual tickets on sale September 2, 2008.
Push Comes to Shove image courtesy of Miami City Ballet.
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