New York City Ballet season begins July 5, 2011
Special to the Times UnionNew York City Ballet returns to Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Tuesday. Opening night features the classic Jerome Robbins’ “I’m Old Fashioned” and George Balanchine’s “Stars and Stripes.”
The season also includes Peter Martins’ “Magic Flute” and Balanchine’s “Apollo,” while the Ballet Gala on Saturday showcases newer work: Benjamin Millepied’s “Plainspoken,” which premiered last fall, and Susan Stroman’s “For the Love of Duke,” which premiered earlier this year. (Scroll down to see a complete list of the season’s shows.)
During the two-week season, Times Union staff writer Lisa Stevens will act as your guide with reviews of some of the key performances.
A long-time student of dance, Stevens started dancing pointe at age 10, trained briefly in Spain and has been attending City Ballet performances for more than 23 years. “Some summers,” she says, “I have gone almost every night.”
This summer, she says she’s most looking forward to Christopher Wheeldon’s “Polyphonia” (2001) and Balanchine’s evening-length “Jewels” (1967).
She describes “Polyphonia” as neoclassical and edgy. It features four couples, whose movements can be both sharp and angular, dancing to short piano pieces by Gyorgy Ligeti. The dance has been hailed as one of Wheeldon’s best, and helped cement the 38-year-old’s reputation as one of the top choreographers today.
Stevens calls “Jewels” the one must-see ballet for people who have yet to experience City Ballet’s world-class performances. She also recommends it for long-time fans. Inspired by jewelry designer Claude Arpels, the piece is a three-act plotless ballet. “It has that really nice mix of the elegance of the dancing, and then the flirty, fun end … (and) the costumes are really beautiful,” she says.
A review in last month’s New York Times called City Ballet’s “Jewels” “an anthology of ballet history, a densely packed guide to the evolution of classical dance over the last 150 years. Or it’s simply a marvelously entertaining compilation of three linked yet unrelated ballets — ‘Emeralds,’ ‘Rubies’ and ‘Diamonds’ — to wonderful music by Fauré, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.”
Stevens says she enjoys City Ballet’s mixture of old and new. “I love seeing new choreography and new choreographers because it’s always interesting to see their interpretation of the music and the dances,” she says. Older pieces, she says, can also be rewarding by showing a viewer something new.
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Do you envy ballet dancers their long, lean bodies and graceful, elegant movements? This beautifully produced exercise video was developed by Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet with the New York Sports Club. First you watch the rippling muscles of four gorgeous ballet dancers (two men and two women) performing warm-up moves to classical ballet music. Martins uses ballet terminology in his cuing and no technique is taught, so it's look-and-follow if you have no previous ballet training. Next you get down on a mat for slow lower-body stretches. A difficult abdominal series is next, followed by "floor barre" exercises to tone the thighs and buttocks while still using the abdominals. After introducing moves to strengthen the back and upper body, Martins runs through a series of standing exercise segments using various ballet movements to strengthen the legs and postural muscles. The workout is divided into 17 short sections, which may give it a disjointed feeling if you're used to more continuity. At the end is a bonus sequence with profiles of the four performers, all dancers with the New York City Ballet. We get to watch them performing, practicing, and eating. One dancer makes the point that ballet is very athletic, but because it's supposed to look ethereal, the hard work stays hidden from the audience. If you love ballet (even just watching it), you'll enjoy this workout. (By the way, Sarah Jessica Parker introduces the video but does not have any other role in it.
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