April 26-27, 2024
P7 – INSPIRATIONS
Featuring Wheeldon’s The American, Lang’s Lyric Pieces, and Ashton’s Sinfonietta
[Sinfonietta] The increased degree of physicality deepens the impact, and makes it much more interesting – essentially taking Monotones to another level. And the cast was wonderful.
Program Seven begins with Tony Award winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s The American. Created to Dvořák’s wondrous string quartet, both score and choreography bring to life the tranquility and open sky of America’s Great Plains. Continuing on the creative relationship between acclaimed choreographer Jessica Lang and The Sarasota Ballet, the Company Premiere of Lyric Pieces presents an engaging and visually dynamic creation that wonderfully and artfully animates its dancers. Closing the 2023 – 2024 Season will be Sir Frederick Ashton’s Sinfonietta, an exciting and fiendishly difficult abstract work. A ballet in three parts, describing its second movement, dance critic Alastair Macaulay wrote for The New York Times that it was “remote, lunar, a brilliantly formal ceremony in white picked out against surrounding darkness.”
Repertoire will include:
The American
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
Music by Antonín Dvořák
Lyric Pieces
Choreography by Jessica Lang
Music by Edvard Grieg
Sinfonietta
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton
Music by Malcolm Williamson
PRICE
$35 – $125
RUN TIME
Approximately 2 hours with two 20 minute intermissions
Venue
Sarasota Opera House
61 N Pineapple Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236
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Creative Team
THE AMERICAN
Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon
Staged By
Margaret Barbieri
Music By
Antonín Dvořák
LYRIC PIECES
Choreography
Jessica Lang
Music By
Edvard Grieg
Costume Design By
Elena Comendador
Original Lighting Design By
Nicole Pearce
Set Concept By
Jessica Lang
Black Paper Softwall Designs By
Molo Designers, Stephanie Forsythe, and Todd MacAllen
SINFONIETTA
Choreography
Sir Frederick Ashton
Revival Staged By
Lynn Wallis
Staged By
Margaret Barbieri
Music By
Malcolm Williamson