NANTUCKET ATHENEUM DANCE FESTIVAL 2011 Featuring stars of New York City Ballet & Paris Opera Ballet Benjamin Millepied Artistic Director Dorothée Gilbert Teresa Reichlen Amar Ramasar Sterling Hyltin Tyler Angle Daniel Ulbricht Maria Kowroski Alessio Carbone Ana Sofia Scheller Sean Suozzi Chase Finlay Georgina Pazcoguin Ashley Laracey Justin Peck Troy Schumacher Musicians Cenovia Cummins Katy Luo Gillian Gallagher Naho Tsutsui Parrini Maria Bella Jeffers Brooke Quiggins Saulnier Cover: Photo of Benjamin Millepied by Paul Kolnik 1 Welcometo the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival! For 177 years the Nantucket Atheneum has enriched our island community through top quality library services and programs. This year the library served more than 200,000 adults, teens and children year round with free access to over 1.4 million books, CDs, and DVDs, reference and information services and a wide range of cultural and educational programs. In keeping with its long-standing tradition of educational and cultural programming, the Nantucket Atheneum is very excited to present a multifaceted dance experience on Nantucket for the fourth straight summer. This year’s performances feature the world’s best dancers from New York City Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet under the brilliant artistic direction of Benjamin Millepied. In addition to live music for two of the pieces in the program, this year’s program includes an exciting world premier by Justin Peck of the New York City Ballet. The festival this week has offered a sparkling array of free community events including two dance-related book author/illustrator talks, Frederick Wiseman’s film La Danse, Children’s Workshop, Lecture Demonstration and two youth master dance classes. Although it is a public library, the Nantucket Atheneum receives limited funding from government sources. Therefore, performances such as the one you will see tonight are only possible through the generous support of our donors. We wish to express our deepest appreciation to our corporate sponsor Northern Trust and to our individual sponsors of the Atheneum Dance Festival who are listed in this program. Finally we send a special thank you to our wonderful Dance Festival Committee under the leadership of our co-chairs Jane Tyler and Marcia Welch, and our honorary chair Marion Martin, for its hard work, passion, and commitment to bringing this exciting festival to our community. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, the Atheneum staff and the Dance Festival Committee, we thank you for joining us tonight for the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival 2011. Enjoy the performance! Molly C. Anderson Executive Director Nantucket Atheneum ONE INDIA STREET P.O. BOX 808 NANTUCKET, MA 02554 508 228 1110 WWW.NANTUCKETATHENEUM.ORG 2 PERFORMANCE Nantucket High School Mary P. Walker Auditorium July 22 & 23, 2011 Interplay Music: Interplay (Original title, American Concertette) (1945) by Morton Gould Choreography: Jerome Robbins Premiere: June 1, 1945, Billy Rose’s Concert Varieties, Ziegfield Theatre, New York NYCB Premiere: December 23, 1952, City Center of Music and Drama. Ashley Laracey Troy Schumacher Chase Finlay Sterling Hyltin Sean Suozzi Daniel Ulbricht Ana Sophia Scheller Georgina Pazcoguin Morton Gould (1913–1996) was an American composer, conductor, and arranger whose lighter works generally drew on American subject matter and music. In his later works Gould concentrated on abstract, as opposed to programmatic or popular, works. His style became more contrapuntal, dissonant, and complex in its treatment of musical materials. Throughout his career Gould was a skillful orchestrator, sensitive to color and texture, and original in his combinations of instruments. His ballets include Fall River Legend, choreographed by Agnes de Mille, and Interplay, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, and he composed numerous scores for film, Broadway, and television. Performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust. 3 Scarlatti-Pas de Deux Music: Domenico Scarlatti Choreography: Jose Martinez Premier: March 24, 2009, in Chatou, France Dorothée Gilbert Alessio Carbone Inspired by the “divertissement” “Robert Macaire,” choreographed in the second act of Les Enfants du Paradis, created for the Paris Opéra in 2008, José Martinez develops in Scarlatti the pas de deux of the Ballerina and Frédéric Lemaître. The ballet accompanies Scarlatti’s piano sonata K 208 Adaggio and the Cantabile of the Sonata in C major K 159. INTERMISSION Red Angels Music: Maxwell’s Demon by Richard Einhorn Choreography: Ulysses Dove Originally staged by Peter Boal Premiere: May 19, 1994, The Diamond Project II, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater. Teresa Reichlen Maria Kowroski Tyler Angle Amar Ramasar Electric Violin: Cenovia Cummins A visually dramatic, dynamically charged, abstract ballet highlights the dancers’ power and athleticism. This piece for four dancers is Mr. Dove’s first work for New York City Ballet. Red Angels is a ballet of intense color, sound and sensual impact. Against a jet black curtain, the dancers, dressed in scarlet leotards, are bathed in spots of blinding white or red hot light; the music is a riveting score for electric violin. According to the late Mr. Dove, best known for his modern dance choreography, “I wanted to deal with aspects of the Balanchine esthetic I find appealing: the speed, legginess, the formality. As for the title, I think the dancers are angelic. And for me, the angels of the senses are red.” 4 Rubies Pas de Deux Music: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929) by Igor Stravinsky Choreography: George Balanchine Premiere: April 13, 1967, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater. Dorothée Gilbert Alessio Carbone Jewels is unique: a full-length, three-act plotless ballet that uses the music of three very different composers. Balanchine was inspired by the artistry of jewelry designer Claude Arpels, and chose music revealing the essence of each jewel. He explained, “Of course, I have always liked jewels; after all, I am an Oriental, from Georgia in the Caucasus. I like the color of gems, the beauty of stones, and it was wonderful to see how our costume workshop, under Karinska’s direction, came so close to the quality of real stones (which were of course too heavy for the dancers to wear!).” Each section of the ballet is distinct in both music and mood. Emeralds, which Balanchine considered “an evocation of France — the France of elegance, comfort, dress, [and] perfume,” recalls the 19th-century dances of the French Romantics. Rubies is crisp and witty, epitomizing the collaboration of Stravinsky and Balanchine. Diamonds recalls the order and grandeur of Imperial Russia and the Maryinsky Theater, where Balanchine was trained. The Balanchine ballet presented in this program is protected by copyright. Any unauthorized recording is prohibited without expressed written consent of The Balanchine Trust and the Nantucket Atheneum. The performance of Rubies Pas De Deux, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust. INTERMISSION 5 Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival World Premiere Music: Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57 by Dimitri Shostakovich is performed by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc. Choreography: Justin Peck Chase Finlay Sterling Hyltin Ashley Laracey Amar Ramasar Teresa Reichlen Ana Sophia Scheller Troy Schumacher Quintet: Naho Parrini, Brooke Saulnier, Gillian Gallagher, Maria Jeffers,Katy Luo Encouraged by Benjamin Millpied, Justin Peck, a New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer, had created a new work for the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Fest. Peck’s work was inspired by the dynamic music of the last three movements of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57. Credit to.... 6 2011 DANCE FESTIVAL: Program Notes By Joseph Carman New York City Ballet Principal Dancer and international choreographer, Benjamin Millepied marks his third year as the Artistic Director of the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival. In keeping with his vision, Millepied has assembled a program of first-rate ballets that display a breadth of vision from the 20th and 21st centuries. Musically savvy and unusually dynamic, the festival program choreography represents talent ranging from the legendary Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine to a rising talent, Justin Peck. The ballets’ composers include Igor Stravinsky, Morton Gould, Richard Einhorn, Dimitri Shostakovich and Domenico Scarlatti. Fourteen dancers from New York City Ballet will perform on the program: Tyler Angle, Chase Finlay, Amar Ramassar, Sterling Hyltin, Maria Kowroski, Ashley Laracey, Georgina Pazcoguin, Amar Ramasar, Teresa Reichlen, Ana Sophia Scheller, Troy Schumacher, Sean Suozzi and Daniel Ulbricht. Joining them will be Dorothée Gilbert and Alessio Carbone from the Paris Opera Ballet. Ulysses Dove choreographed Red Angels for the New York City Ballet’s Diamond Project in 1994. This intensely physical work for a quartet of dancers stresses authority and athleticism through classical and modern dance vocabulary. Speaking about his ballet, the late Mr. Dove said, “I wanted to deal with aspects of the Balanchine esthetic that I find appealing: the speed, the legginess, the formality. As for the title, I think the dancers are angelic. And for me, the angels of the senses are red.” The tone of the ballet is immediately set by Richard Einhorn’s gripping score for a five-string electric violin, titled