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AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 1 NANTUCKET ATHENEUM DANCE FESTI VAL July 26 –31, 2 01 0 Friday, July 30th, 6:30 P.M. Saturday, July 31st, 6:30 P.M. Nantucket High School Mary P. Walker Auditorium 1 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 2 DANCE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE 2010 Marion Martin Jane Tyler Marcia P. Welch Dance Festival Co-Chairs Mary Randolph Ballinger Cosby George A. Steven Perelman Susie Belcher Tim George Samantha Sandler Roxanne Casscells Nan Geschke Denise Saul Barbara G. Cohen Molly Harding Maria Spears Patti Deuster Kathryn Kay Pam Thomas Barbara J. Fife John W. Loose Mary Wolff Alan Forster Mary Ann Peglar NANTUCKET ATHENEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES Alice F. Emerson Stephen C. Anderson Chair Vice-Chair Judith Tindal Opatrny Alan Forster Secretary Treasurer Margaret Gaffney Benedict Timothy M. George Donald M. Stewart Susan Boardman Elizabeth Grubbs Bernard L. Swain William J. Charlton Kathryn Kay Jane Tyler Tharon Dunn Jeanne Casey Miller Marcia P. Welch Douglass N. Ellis A. Steven Perelman Jay M. Wilson Barbara J. Fife Anne Phaneuf Ronald Winters William G. Spears Chairman Emeritus Trustees Emeriti John W. Loose Nan Geschke Martha Groetzinger Executive Director President Emeritus Nancy A. Newhouse Molly C. Anderson Robert F. Mooney Honorary Trustees Mr. and Mrs. Robert Diamond Jr. Lucile W. Hays Mr. and Mrs. Richard Menschel Richard M. Scaife Margaret B. Scaife 2 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 3 NANTUCKET ATHENEUM DANCE FESTI VAL 201 0 Featuring stars of American Ballet Theatre and The New York City Ballet Benjamin Millepied Artistic Director Gillian Murphy Teresa Reichlen Jennie Somogyi Wendy Whelan Tyler Angle Gonzalo Garcia David Hallberg Benjamin Millepied Jonathan Stafford Kathryn Morgan Maria Riccetto Craig Hall Adrian Danchig-Waring Cory Stearns Amanda Hankes Blaine Hoven Pianist: Cameron Grant Cellist: Ann Kim Nantucket High School Auditorium Friday, July 30, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. Photo of Isabella Boylston by Thomas Humery 3 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 4 Weltco thoe Nmantue cket Atheneum Dance Festival! July 2010 For 176 years the Atheneum has enriched our island community by providing top quality library services and programs. This year we served more than 182, 000 people through our active circulation of books, CDs, and DVDs, our reference/information services and our wide range of cultural and educational programs for adults and youth. In keeping with our long-standing tradition of educational and cultural programming, the Nantucket Atheneum is very excited to bring this superlative dance experience to Nantucket for a third summer. This year’s program brings to our island a magical combination of classical and modern music, and choreography with the world’s best dancers from American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet under the masterful artistic direction of Benjamin Millepied. As a special treat this year three of the pieces in the program feature live music. In addition, we are pleased to offer a number of free, community outreach events during this week: a Children’s Performance, a Lecture Demonstration led by Mr. Millepied, two dance films, and two youth master dance classes. Although the Nantucket Atheneum is a public library, it receives limited funding from government sources. Therefore, programs 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 sponsors Northern Trust and Sentient Jet and to our individual sponsors of the Atheneum Dance Festival who are listed in this program. And finally we wish to thank our amazing Dance Festival Committee for its hard work and tireless 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 2010. Enjoy the performance! Molly C. Anderson Executive Director Nantucket Atheneum ONE INDIA STREET P.O. B OX 808 N ANTUCKET , MA 02554 508 228 1110 WWW .NANTUCKETATHENEUM .ORG 4 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 5 PERFORMANCE Nantucket High School Mary P. Walker Auditorium July 30 & 31, 2010 Other Dances Music by Frédéric Chopin Choreography by Jerome Robbins Costumes by Santo Loquasto Lighting by Jennifer Tipton Staged by Isabelle Guérin Gillian Murphy David Hallberg Piano: Cameron Gran t Other Dances is performed to the following works of Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op.17, #4, Mazurka in B Major, Op.41, #3, Waltz in A flat, Op.64, #3, Mazurka in F minor, Op.63, #2, Mazurka in D Major, Op.33, #2. Other Dances is performed with permission from the Robbins Rights Trust. Other Dances was created in the spring of 1976 especially for Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov for a gala benefit for the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York City. The ballet was commissioned by Eugenia Doll and is dedicated to her memory with gratitude, for the devoted, tender, loving care she extended to so many people and companies in the field of dance. 5 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 6 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Music by Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky, From Swan Lake (1876) Choreography by George Balanchine Costumes by Karinska Lighting by Mark Stanley Coached by Benjamin Millepied Maria Riccetto Blaine Hoven An eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique, Tschaikovsky Pa s de Deux uses music that the composer belatedly created for Act III of Swan Lake. It was hurriedly composed for Anna Sobeshchanskaya, a Bolshoi prima ballerina who was scheduled to make her debut in the title role at the fourth performance of the 1877 Moscow production, and sought to enrich the part of Odile. Because the music was not in the original score, it was not published with the rest of Swan Lake, and disappeared for more than half a century. When it was discovered in the Bolshoi Theater archives in 1953, Balanchine sought — and was granted — permission to use it for his own choreography. Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (1840-1893) studied at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, where Balanchine later studied piano in addition to his studies in dance. Tschaikovsky is one of the most popular and influential of all romantic composers. His work is expressive, melodic, grand in scale, with rich orchestrations. His output was prodigious and included chamber works, symphonies, concerti for various instruments, operas and works for the piano. His creations for the ballet, composed in close partnership with Marius Petipa, include Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty. The work had its world premiere on March 29, 1960 at the New York City Center of Music and Drama danced by the New York City Ballet principals Violette Verdy and Conrad Ludlow. The work entered the repertoire of American Ballet Theatre on August 11, 1970 at the Santander Festival in Spain. The performance of Tschaikovsky 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 the Balanchine Technique ® Service Standards established and provided by the Trust. INTERMISSION 6 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 7 A Suite of Dances Music For Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach Choreography by Jerome Robbins Lighting by Jennifer Tipton Staged by Jean-Pierre Frohlich Benjamin Millepied Cello: Ann Kim A Suite of Dances features the following selections by Bach: Prelude & Gigue from Suite 1 in G major, BMV 1007 Sarabande from Suite V in C minor, BMV 1011 Prelude from VI in D major, BMV 1012. A Suite of Dances had its world premiere in March 1994 with the White Oak Project, danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. It entered the New York City Ballet repertoire on May 10, 1994. This performance of A Suite of Dances is presented by arrangement with the Robbins Rights Trust. Romeo and Juliet Balcony Pas de Deux Music by Sergei Prokofiev Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan Costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis Lighting by Mark Stanley Maria Riccetto Cory Stearns Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s production of Romeo and Juliet had its world premiere with the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on February 9, 1965. Margot Fonteyn was Juliet in the first performance and Rudolf Nureyev was Romeo. The work entered American Ballet Theatre’s repertoire on January 3, 1985 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. INTERMISSION 7 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 8 Polyphonia Music by Gyorgy Ligeti Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon Costumes by Holly Hynes Lighting by Mark Stanley Staged by Jason Fowler Wendy Whelan Tyler Angle Jennie Somogyi Gonzalo Garcia Teresa Reichlen Adrian Danchig-Waring Kathryn Morgan Craig Hall Polyphonia had its world premiere on January 4, 2001 with the New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. “Desordre” from Études pour piano, premier livre (1985) Arc-en-ciel from Études pour piano, premier livre (1985) No. 4 Tempo di Valse from Musica Ricercata (1951-53) Invention (1948) No. 8 Vivace energico from Musica Ricercata (1951-53) No. 2 Hopp ide tisztan from Three Wedding Dances (1950) No. 7 Cantabile molto legato (1951-53) No. 3 Allegro con spirito from Musica Ricercata (1951-53) No. 2 Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale from Musica Ricercata (1951-53) Capriccio No. 2 – Allegro robusto (1947) . 8 AtheneumDanceFestCovers10:AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/15/10 4:36 PM Page 9 NANTUCKET ATHENEUM DANCE FESTIVAL 2010 By Joseph Carman In his second season as Artistic Director of the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival, New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied continues his mission to produce a program of musical elegance and choreographic sophistication.