Simple Symphony (ballet)
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A Simple Symphony is a ballet made by former company dancer Melissa Barak
on New York City Ballet
to Benjamin Britten
's eponymous music
from 1934 for string orchestra. The premiere took place on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
. The choreographer designed the women’s costumes. She is quoted as saying that she took inspiration from Balanchine’s
La source
and Raymonda Variations
.
Melissa Barak
Melissa Barak is a choreographer and ballerina, dancing with the Los Angeles Ballet since 2006 and with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company; she formerly danced for New York City Ballet having trained at their affiliated School of American Ballet....
on New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
to Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
's eponymous music
Simple Symphony
The Simple Symphony, Op.4 is a work for string orchestra or string quartet by Benjamin Britten.It was written as a piece for string orchestra and received its first performance in 1934 in Norwich, with Britten conducting an amateur orchestra....
from 1934 for string orchestra. The premiere took place on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
. The choreographer designed the women’s costumes. She is quoted as saying that she took inspiration from Balanchine’s
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
La source
La source (Balanchine)
La Source is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by its founding balletmaster George Balanchine. The premiere took place on November 23, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
and Raymonda Variations
Raymonda Variations
Raymonda Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's Raymonda . The premiere took place on December 7, 1961, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, under the title Valses et Variations...
.
Original cast
- Sara Mearns
- Ana Sophia Scheller
- Tiler Peck
- Jared Angle
- Tyler Angle
- Sean Suozzi
External links
- NYCB website Category:Ballets by Melissa Barak