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ABT 2017 가을 시즌 프로그램 발표(10/18-29)
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WORLD PREMIERES BY ALEXEI RATMANSKY,
JESSICA LANG AND BENJAMIN MILLEPIED TO HIGHLIGHT
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE’S FALL SEASON AT THE DAVID H. KOCH THEATER,
OCTOBER 18-29, 2017
BOX OFFICE TO OPEN JULY 17
Programming for American Ballet Theatre’s 2017 Fall season, October 18-29, at the
David H. Koch Theater, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. The season
will feature World Premieres by Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky and choreographers
Jessica Lang and Benjamin Millepied.
Principal Dancers for the 2017 Fall Season include Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston,
Jeffrey Cirio, Misty Copeland, Herman Cornejo, David Hallberg, Alban Lendorf, Gillian
Murphy, Hee Seo, Daniil Simkin, Cory Stearns and James Whiteside.
Fall Gala and World Premieres
American Ballet Theatre’s 2017 Fall season opens with a Gala performance on
Wednesday, October 18 at 6:30pm featuring the World Premieres of a new work by Alexei
Ratmansky and a pièce d’occasion by Jessica Lang performed by ABT apprentices, members of
the ABT Studio Company and students from the upper level of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis School. Christopher Wheeldon’s Thirteen Diversions will round out the evening. The
Fall Gala will pay tribute to the 25th Anniversary of Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie and
Project Plié, ABT’s educational and diversity program.
Speaking about his anniversary year, McKenzie said, “For this season, I’ve selected
works by choreographers working today that extend ABT’s repertoire with fresh ideas on what
the art form can say. Alexei Ratmansky, Jessica Lang, Benjamin Millepied, Christopher
Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett are among the freshest and most innovative voices in dance, and yet
they continue to honor the great masters who have come before. And with the presence of the
masters (Frederick Ashton and Jerome Robbins) to remind us that innovation matters, I feel
proud to claim we can present such depth as we look to the future.”
The World Premiere work by Ratmansky will be set to new music, Bukovinian Songs (24
Preludes for Piano) by Leonid Desyatnikov performed live by guest soloist Alexey Goribol. The
October 18 performance will also mark the World Premiere of Desyatnikov’s composition. A
work for 12 dancers, the ballet will be given five performances during the Fall season.
Created for American Ballet Theatre, Thirteen Diversions is set to music by Benjamin
Britten (Diversions for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra, Op. 21) and features costumes by Bob
Crowley and lighting by Brad Fields. Thirteen Diversions received its World Premiere by
American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York on May 24, 2011. Last
performed by ABT in 2014, the ballet will be given six performances during the Fall season.
The World Premiere of a new work by Benjamin Millepied will be given on Wednesday
evening, October 25. The new Millepied work, the choreographer’s fourth for the Company, will
be given four performances during the season.
Returning Repertory
American Ballet Theatre’s 2017 Fall season at the Koch Theater will also feature
performances of Jessica Lang’s Her Notes, Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations, Jerome
Robbins’ Other Dances, Alexei Ratmansky’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium and Souvenir
d’un lieu cher, Benjamin Millepied’s Daphnis and Chloe and the Elegy pas de deux from Liam
Scarlett’s With a Chance of Rain.
Jessica Lang’s Her Notes will be given its first performance of the season on Thursday
evening, October 19. Set to music by Fanny Mendelssohn, with costumes by Bradon
McDonald, scenery by Lang and lighting design by Nicole Pearce, Her Notes received its World
Premiere on October 20, 2016 at the Koch Theater in New York City. Her Notes will be given
five performances during the Fall season.
Alexei Ratmansky’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium will receive the first of five
performances on Thursday evening, October 19. Set to music by Leonard Bernstein, the ballet
features scenery and costumes by Jérôme Kaplan and lighting by Brad Fields. Serenade after
Plato’s Symposium received its World Premiere by American Ballet Theatre on May 16, 2016 at
the Metropolitan Opera House.
Ratmansky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher, set to music of the same name by Peter Ilyitch
Tchaikovsky and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, will have four performances during the
Fall season beginning Wednesday evening, October 25. Featuring sets and costumes by Keso
Dekker with lighting by James F. Ingalls, the ballet for four dancers received its World Premiere
by Het National Ballet on February 16, 2012 in Amsterdam. Souvenir d’un lieu cher will receive
its American Ballet Theatre Company Premiere on July 3, 2017 at the Metropolitan Opera
House.
Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations, set to music by César Franck, with
costumes by Sophie Fedorovitch and lighting by Michael Somes, will be given four
performances during the season beginning Thursday, October 19. A plotless ballet for six
dancers, Symphonic Variations was given its World Premiere by the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in
London on April 24, 1946. It was first performed by American Ballet Theatre at the Civic Opera
House in Chicago, Illinois on March 20, 1992. The ballet is staged for ABT by Wendy Somes
and Malin Thoors.
Benjamin Millepied’s Daphnis and Chloe will have the first of four performances on
Wednesday, October 25. Set to music by Maurice Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe features costumes
by Holly Hynes, scenery by Daniel Buren and lighting by Brad Fields. Daphnis and Chloe,
adapted from the second century A.D. novel by the Greek writer Longus, was choreographed by
Millepied for the Paris Opera Ballet in 2014 and received its ABT premiere on October 26, 2016
at the Koch Theater in New York City. The ballet was originally commissioned in 1912 by Serge
Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes. Daphnis and Chloe is staged for ABT by Janie Taylor and
Sebastien Marcovici.
Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances returns to the repertory on Thursday evening,
October 19 for the first time since 2013. Set to a waltz and four mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin,
Other Dances features costumes by Santo Loquasto and original lighting by Nananne Porcher.
The plotless, classical character pas de deux was created by Robbins for a Gala evening for the
Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center at the Metropolitan Opera House on
May 9, 1976, performed by Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Staged for American
Ballet Theatre by Isabel Guerin, Other Dances will receive five performances during the season.
Liam Scarlett’s Elegy pas de deux, from his 2014 work With a Chance of Rain, will
be given three performances beginning Tuesday, October 24. Set to music by Sergei
Rachmaninoff, the ballet features costumes by Scarlett and lighting by Brad Fields. Scarlett’s
complete work was given its World Premiere by American Ballet Theatre on October 22, 2014.
Tickets for American Ballet Theatre’s 2017 Fall season at the David H. Koch Theater
go on sale beginning July 17, 2017. Tickets priced from $25 are available on line, at the Koch
Theater box office or by phone at 212-496-0600. Performance-only tickets for the Opening
Night Gala begin at $25. The David H. Koch Theater is located at Lincoln Center, Broadway
and 63rd Street in New York City. For more information, visit ABT’s website at www.abt.org.
