Pennsylvania Ballet’s 45th Anniversary Season: Celebrated Classics and Plenty of Premieres
To honor our 45th Anniversary Season, we’re bringing you an incredible collection of ballets. The Company’s growing repertoire includes many jewels that celebrate classicism and challenge convention. The enduring signature is, of course, its dancers, who rehearse tirelessly to make these pieces shine onstage.
The Company will perform George Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina on a program that includes the Company premieres of Twyla Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove and Mauro Bigonzetti’s Kazimir’s Colours. In December, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker returns to the Academy of Music for its 40th year. The Love & Longing program, just in time for Valentine’s Day, boasts Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs and Peter Martins’s exhilarating Fearful Symmetries, as well as a world premiere from Annabella Lopez Ochoa. The charming tale of Cinderella in March is followed with Tango with Style – a program that includes Hans van Manen’s Five Tangos, the Company premiere of Peter Martins’s Barber Violin Concerto and a world premiere from Matthew Neenan. One of the oldest ballet’s in existence, La Sylphide, returns to the Academy of Music after a 21 year absence, capping off the spectacular 2008-2009 Season.
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