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Dance
New York City Center Presents 2009 Fall for Dance Festival: Celebrating 100 Years of the Ballets Russes
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Fall for Dance
- When
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Sep 22, 2009 – Oct 3, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$10
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Note:
Some tickets will be released at the box office at 6:30pm for 8pm performances and 1:30pm for 3pm shows. Limit two tickets per customer.
Fall for Dance this year celebrates the centenary of Ballets Russes, the Paris-based Russians who made ballet artistically relevant. Reconstructions include Vaslav Nijinsky's Grecian frieze-frame Afternoon of A Faun and sister Bronoslava's sophisticated house party Les Biches (Gazelles); Mikhail Fokine’slovesick puppet Petrushka, a role synonymous with Nijinsky, is now transformed into a Basil Twist puppet show. Among the company's non-Russian collaborators was Maurice Ravel, and Batsheva Dance returns his Bolero to its origins as a dance piece. Meanwhile, Savion Glover's STaRz and STRiPes takes its name from the Balanchine ballet parodying his former troupe, while honoring another true classic — John Coltrane.
