P3 – MOMENTS OF MEANING

A return to regality and beauty, George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations opens Program Three.
This masterful work transports audiences to the height of the Russian Imperial Ballet with its glittering costumes, masterful choreography, and Tchaikovsky’s evocative score. The program continues with a selection of divertissements that will provide audiences with a smorgasbord of works including Johan Kobborg’s Les Lutins, Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Walk to the Paradise Garden and Vasily Vanonen Flame’s of Paris pas de deux. Twyla Tharp’s, In the Upper Room, closes the December program with a “transcendent experience for both audience and performers”. Created in 1986, the work features a commissioned score by Philip Glass and showcases Tharp’s choreography, which blends a diverse range of movements, including boxing, tap dance, yoga, ballet, and full-speed sprinting.

Repertoire will include:

Theme and Variations
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Divertissement: Les Lutins
Choreography by Johan Kobborg
Music by Henryk Wieniawski and Antonio Bazzini

Divertissement: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton
Music by Frederick Delius

In the Upper Room
Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Music by Philip Glass