Celebration: The Art of the Pas de Deux 35 Miami City Ballet CELEBRATION: THE ART OF THE PAS DE DEUX Charleston Gaillard Center May 25, 6:30pm Martha and John M. Rivers Performance Hall Artistic Director and Moderator Lourdes Lopez Conductor Gary Sheldon Piano Ciro Fodere and Francisco Rennó Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra 1 hour, 30 minutes | Performed without an intermission Afternoon of a Faun (1953) Choreography Jerome Robbins Music Claude Debussy Staging Jean-Pierre Frohlich Set and Lighting Design Jean Rosenthal Lighting Recreation Les Dickert Costume Design Irene Sharif Scenic Supervision Arnold Abramson Dancers Unity Phelan and Chase Finlay* Pause Other Dances (1976) Choreography Jerome Robbins Music Frédéric Chopin Staging Isabelle Guérin Costume Design Santo Loquasto Lighting Design Jennifer Tipton Lighting Recreation Les Dickert Dancers Simone Messmer and Renan Cerdeiro Piano Francisco Rennó Pause In the Night (1970) Choreography Jerome Robbins Music Frédéric Chopin Staging Miami City Ballet Costume Design Anthony Dowell Lighting Design Jennifer Tipton Lighting Recreation Les Dickert Dancers Emily Bromberg and Kleber Rebello Unity Phelan and Chase Finlay* Katia Carranza and Reyneris Reyes Piano Ciro Fodere The 2018 dance series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Support provided by The Jerome Robbins Foundation. Sponsored by Eastern Distribution. This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. *Guest artists from New York City Ballet. 36 Celebration: The Art of the Pas de Deux Program Notes About the Choreographer Afternoon of a Faun JEROME ROBBINS (choreographer) is world renowned for Music: Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune by Claude Debussy his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies, and television. A pas de deux set in a ballet studio, Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon His Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, of a Faun is about a fleeting encounter between a young man High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter absorbed by his reflection in a mirror and a woman who enters Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His the studio and interrupts his reverie. It was set to music by last Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Claude Debussy—Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune—which was won six Tony Awards including best musical and best director. composed between 1892 and 1894, a musical piece inspired by Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, a Stephane Mallarmé poem describing a faun’s encounter with Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances At a Gathering, In the nymphs. In 1912, Vaslav Nijinsky presented his famous version Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces, and Ives, Songs, of Afternoon of a Faun based on the music and the poem, among which are in the repertories of New York City Ballet and other other sources. The Robbins choreography is a contemporary major dance companies throughout the world. His last ballets variation of these works. The ballet was first performed in 1953 include A Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov by Francisco Moncion and Tanaquil LeClercq. (1994), 2 and 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995), and Brandenburg (1996). In addition to two Academy The ballet has special significance for Miami City Ballet. Awards for the filmWest Side Story, Robbins received four Tony A young student at the School of American Ballet inspired Awards, five Donaldson Awards, two Emmy Awards, the Screen Robbins to create the piece; that student was Edward Villella, Directors’ Guild Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Miami City Ballet’s founding artistic director. Award. Robbins was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de The original production of Miami City Ballet’s Afternoon of a la Légion d’Honneur. Robbins died in 1998. Faun (2005) was underwritten by Diane and Irving Siegel. A special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for From the General Director supporting the original company premiere of Afternoon of a Faun. In 1958, Jerome Robbins was one among a group of extraordinary artists invited by Gian Carlo Menotti to help start an event in the A special thanks to The Robbins Rights Trust. Performed by small Umbrian town of Spoleto—The Festival of Two Worlds, permission of the Robbins Rights Trust. which would celebrate contemporary artists from, for the most part, America, as well as the European roots from which those In the Night artists had been nurtured. Music: Nocturne op. 27, no. 1; Nocturnes op. 55, no. 1 and no. 2; Nocturne op. 9, no. 2 by Frédéric Chopin Robbins was invited to the inaugural Festival as a resident artist, and in the spring of 1958, he established a troupe of 16 In 1970, one year after his triumphant return from Broadway to dancers from both the ballet and theater worlds specifically for the Festival. The ensemble, which Robbins named Ballets ballet with Dances at a Gathering, Jerome Robbins once again U.S.A., made its debut at Spoleto—before performing during turned to the music of Chopin. But this time he chose to work the Brussels World’s Fair, among other European engagements. with four of the composer’s highly romantic nocturnes. And Two of Robbins’s major works premiered in Spoleto: N.Y. indeed In the Night is a ballet that is in every way nocturnal—not Export: Opus Jazz (1958) and Moves (1959). In 1973, at Menotti’s only in its title but in its setting and atmosphere. Three couples— request, Robbins created Celebration: The Art of the Pas de three pas de deux—dance under a star-sprinkled night sky. The Deux for the Festival, an immediate success. first pair are dreamy, innocent; the second, more mature, more resolved; the third, combative, stormy. Finally the three couples We salute Jerome Robbins on what would have been his 100th are seen together—in a more public manner, yet still under the year by remembering his legacy at Spoleto Festival USA. stars. From its first performance with New York City Ballet,In the Night has been an audience favorite everywhere. – Nigel Redden, General Director of Spoleto Festival USA Other Dances Music: Mazurka op. 17, no. 4; Mazurka op. 41, no. 3; Waltz op. 64, no. 3; Mazurka op. 63, no. 2; Mazurka op. 33, no. 2 by Frédéric Chopin Even after Dances at a Gathering, In the Night, and The Concert, Robbins couldn’t get Chopin’s piano music off his mind. In 1976, he created this extended duet for the reigning stars of classical ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova. Lyrical, charming, and demanding, it has been savored for four decades. Miami City Ballet 37 MIAMI CITY BALLET Charleston Gaillard Center May 26, 2:00pm and 8:00pm; Martha and John M. Rivers May 27, 2:00pm Performance Hall Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez Conductor Gary Sheldon Piano Ciro Fodere and Francisco Rennó Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra 2 hours | Performed with two intermissions Walpurgisnacht Ballet (1980) Choreography George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Music Charles Gounod Staging Ben Huys Costume Design Karinska Lighting Design John Hall Dancers Katia Carranza, Renato Penteado, Nathalia Arja Emily Bromberg, Ashley Knox Maya Collins, Samantha Hope Galler, Jordan-Elizabeth Long, Nicole Stalker Alaina Andersen, Julia Cinquemani, Mayumi Enokibara, Ellen Grocki, Petra Love, Suzette Logue, Grace Mullins, Lexie Overholt, Leanna Rinaldi, Helen Ruiz, Alyssa Schroeder, Christie Sciturro, Raechel Sparreo, Christina Spigner, Ella Titus, Ao Wang Pause Carousel Pas de Deux (1994) Choreography Sir Kenneth MacMillan Music Richard Rodgers, Arranged and Orchestrated by Martin Yates Staging Stacy Caddell Costume Design Bob Crowley Lighting Design John Hall Dancers Jennifer Lauren, Chase Swatosh Intermission Program continues on next page 38 Miami City Ballet Concerto DSCH (2008) Choreography Alexei Ratmansky Music Dmitri Shostakovich Staging Tatiana and Alexei Ratmansky Costume Design Holly Hynes Lighting Design Mark Stanley Dancers Simone Messmer, Nathalia Arja, Renan Cerdeiro, Chase Swatosh, Kleber Rebello Emily Bromberg and Didier Bramaz Lauren Fadeley and Shimon Ito Ashley Knox and Ariel Rose Samantha Hope Galler and Bradley Dunlap Ellen Grocki and Alex Manning Alyssa Schroeder and Amir Yogev Nicole Stalker and Damian Zamorano Piano Francisco Rennó Intermission Heatscape (2015) Choreography Justin Peck Music Bohuslav Martinů Art Design Shepard Fairey / ObeyGiant.com Costume Design Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung Lighting Design Brandon Stirling Baker Dancers Tricia Albertson, Emily Bromberg, Samantha Hope Galler, Ashley Knox, Jennifer Lauren, Suzette Logue, Lexie Overholt, Christina Spigner, Nicole Stalker, Renan Cerdeiro, Bradley Dunlap, Shimon Ito, Alexander Peters, Kleber Rebello, Chase Swatosh, Eric Trope, Damian Zamorano 1st Movement Emily Bromberg, Renan Cerdeiro, and Company 2nd Movement Tricia Albertson, Kleber Rebello, and Company 3rd Movement Shimon Ito, Jennifer Lauren, Alexander Peters, and Company Piano Ciro Fodere The 2018 dance series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Sponsored by Eastern Distribution. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. Miami City Ballet 39 Heatscape Program Notes Music: Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra by Bohuslav Walpurgisnacht Ballet Martinů* Music from Faust (1859, ballet music added in 1869), by Charles Justin Peck, who continues to broaden his artistic scope Gounod and choreographic repertoire, has always viewed dance as a nexus for all artistic mediums. It is with this spirit of creative Twenty-four girls stampeding across the stage—most of them in collaboration that he sought out renowned visual artist Shepard purple, their hair flowing—and a single man.