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ABT 2018 가을 시즌 프로그램(10/17-28)
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WORLD PREMIERES BY MICHELLE DORRANCE AND JESSICA LANG TO HIGHLIGHT
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE’S FALL SEASON
AT THE DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, OCTOBER 17-28, 2018
PERFORMANCES OF FANCY FREE TO COMMEMORATE CENTENNIALS OF JEROME ROBBINS AND LEONARD BERNSTEIN BOX OFFICE TO OPEN JULY 23
2016 ABT의 가을시즌에서
Programming for American Ballet Theatre’s 2018 Fall season, October 17-28 at the David H.
Koch Theater, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. The season will feature
World Premieres by Michelle Dorrance and Jessica Lang, as well as centennial tribute performances of
Jerome Robbins’s and Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free.
Principal Dancers for the 2018 Fall season include Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty
Copeland, Herman Cornejo, Sarah Lane, Alban Lendorf, Gillian Murphy, Hee Seo, Christine
Shevchenko, Cory Stearns, Devon Teuscher and James Whiteside.
Fall Gala and World Premieres
American Ballet Theatre’s Fall season will open with a Gala performance on Wednesday,
October 17 at 6:30pm. As part of the ABT Women’s Movement initiative, the Fall Gala performance
will be devoted to works by female choreographers. The evening will feature a World Premiere by tap
dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance, co-commissioned with the Vail Dance Festival, Le Jeune,
choreographed by Lauren Lovette and performed by the ABT Studio Company, and Twyla Tharp’s In
the Upper Room.
A new work by Jessica Lang will receive its World Premiere on Friday, October 19. Lang’s new
work, her third for ABT, will feature scenery and costumes by American artist Sarah Crowner and
lighting by Nicole Pearce. The ballet will be given six performances during ABT’s Fall season.
Revival and Returning Repertory
The 2018 Fall season at the Koch Theater will include a revival of George Balanchine’s
Symphonie Concertante. Last performed by ABT in 2007, Symphonie Concertante is set to music by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major for Violin and Viola K. 364) with
costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge and lighting by David K. H. Elliott. Symphonie Concertante received
its World Premiere by Ballet Society at the City Center Theater in New York on November 12, 1947,
with Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil LeClerq and Todd Bolender in the principal roles. The ballet received its
American Ballet Theatre Company Premiere at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on January
19, 1983, danced by Cynthia Gregory, Martine van Hamel and Patrick Bissell. Staged for ABT by
Susan Jones, Symphonie Concertante will be given five performances beginning Thursday, October 18.
American Ballet Theatre’s Fall season will present Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free and Other
Dances in tribute to the choreographer’s centennial. Performances of Fancy Free, which will also
commemorate the centennial of composer Leonard Bernstein, begin Thursday evening, October 18.
The ballet features scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Kermit Love and lighting by Jennifer Tipton,
after Nananne Porcher. Fancy Free received its World Premiere by American Ballet Theatre on April
18, 1944 at the Metropolitan Opera House. Fancy Free is staged for ABT by Jean-Pierre Frohlich.
Other Dances returns to the repertory on Saturday evening, October 20. 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 Isabelle Guérin, Other Dances will receive three performances during the season.
Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room will be given five performances beginning Wednesday
evening, October 17. Last performed by ABT in 2012, In the Upper Room is set to music by Philip
Glass with costumes by Norma Kamali and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. A ballet in nine parts, In the
Upper Room was given its World Premiere by Twyla Tharp Dance on August 28, 1986. In the Upper
Room received its American Ballet Theatre Company Premiere on December 10, 1988 at the Orange
County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California. The ballet will be staged for ABT by Richard
Colton and Shelley Washington.
Wayne McGregor’s AFTERITE returns this Fall for four performances beginning Wednesday
evening, October 24. In his first work for ABT, McGregor created a new scenario set to Igor
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The ballet features sets and costumes by Vicki Mortimer, with video
designs by Ravi Deepres and lighting by Lucy Carter. A co-commission with The Royal Danish Ballet,
AFTERITE received its World Premiere on Monday, May 21, 2018 at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Alexei Ratmansky’s Songs of Bukovina, set to Bukovinian Songs (24 Preludes for Piano) by
Leonid Desyatnikov, will be given four performances during the Fall season beginning Friday evening,
October 19. A work for 12 dancers, the ballet has costumes by Moritz Junge and lighting by Brad
Fields. Songs of Bukovina received its World Premiere on October 18, 2017 at the David H. Koch Theater
in New York.
Family Friendly Matinee
A special matinee on Saturday, October 27 will feature family-friendly programming including the
ABT Studio Company in Lauren Lovette’s Le Jeune, a classical pas de deux and Jerome Robbins’ Fancy
Free. Children (ages 6-18) receive a 50% discount off tickets with the purchase of a full-priced adult
ticket.
Tickets for American Ballet Theatre’s 2018 Fall season at the David H. Koch Theater go on sale
beginning July 23, 2018 at 10:00am. Tickets priced from $25 are available online, at the Koch Theatre
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, please visit ABT’s website at www.abt.org
