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Classical Ballet Evening of one-act ballets: Igor Stravinsky "Le Sacre du printemps" choreography by Sasha Waltz. "Prodigal Son" by George Balanchine
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Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets: Igor Stravinsky "Le Sacre du printemps" choreography by Sasha Waltz. "Prodigal Son" by George Balanchine 2022

Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Musical Director: Maestro Valery Gergiev
Choreography: George Balanchine
Choreography: Vaslav Nijinsky
Choreography: Sasha Waltz

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

"Le Sacre du printemps"
choreography by Sasha Waltz.

German choreographer Sasha Waltz will be staging her original version of Le Sacre du printemps to music by Igor Stravinsky for the Mariinsky Ballet Company as part of a joint project between the Mariinsky Theatre and Paris’ Theatre des Champs Elysees

Music by Igor Stravinsky
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Choreographer: Sasha Waltz
Production Designers: Pia Maier Schriever, Sasha Waltz
Costume Designer: Bernd Skodzig
Lighting Designer: Thilo Reuther

Co-production by Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH and the Mariinsky Theatre
 


Premiere of the ballet with choreography by Sasha Waltz: 13 May 2013, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

"Prodigal Son"
by George Balanchine

Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography by George Balanchine (1929)
Libretto by Boris Kochno (after the biblical parable)
Scenery and costumes: Georges Rouault
Scenery executed by Prince A. Schervashidze
Costumes executed by Vera Soudeikina
Staging: Karin von Aroldingen and Paul Boos
Lighting: Vladimir Lukasevich
 


Premiere: May 21, 1929, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Thйвtre Sarah-Bernhardt, Paris
Premiere in the Mariinsky Theatre: December 14, 2001

Running time 40 minutes

The Prodigal Son was the last work Balanchine made for Diaghilev’s Ballets russes in 1929 with Serge Lifar in the role of the Prodigal Son; it was revived in 1950 by the New York City Ballet with Jerome Robbins in the title role. Its music, by Prokofiev, was written for the ballet, and its costumes and decor were created by Rouault, making it a perfect example of the collaborative efforts among artists that produced some of the best works of the Diaghilev era. New for a Diaghilev ballet was the Biblical theme and the religious spirit. In seeking eternal themes and turning to past artistic devices, western artists were trying to avoid the complete itellectual and artistic degeneration towards which their rootless experimentation was leading. Prodigal Son anticipated the trend toward religion of the 1930s and 40s. It was Diaghilev’s fate that he would always be ahead of fashion, even when he believed he had turned his back on vogue. The return of Prodigal Son to St Petersburg is of great significance. For the first time, a ballet of the most radical, late period of Diaghilev’s Les Saisons russes has returned to the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. That period of Russian and world ballet has been come home, which until recently was under artistic (avant-garde aesthetics of the late Diaghilev era) and ideological (use of religious motifs) censorship. With the return of Prodigal Son, the Mariinsky Theatre and its generation of young dancers have begun to restore an objective picture of the development of ballet in the 20th century.

© Photo by John Ross



Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets: Igor Stravinsky "Le Sacre du printemps" choreography by Sasha Waltz. "Prodigal Son" by George Balanchine 2022


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