New York City Ballet (NYCB)’s 2023 Winter Season will open on Tuesday, January 17, with an all-Balanchine program consisting of Donizetti Variations, Haieff Divertimento, Valse-Fantaisie and Stravinsky Violin Concerto, 4 of eight works by NYCB Co-Founder George Balanchine that can be carried out in the course of the Winter Season.
The six-week season – January 17 by February 26 – will characteristic performances of 17 ballets carried out by NYCB’s 100 dancers and apprentices and the 62-piece NYCB Orchestra — beneath the inventive management of Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford, Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck, and Music Director Andrew Litton.
Highlighting the season would be the January 26th world premiere of Copland Dance Episodes, a brand new ballet by Justin Peck to the music of Aaron Copland, the dean of American composers. An summary, non-narrative, full night piece, carried out with out intermission, Copland Dance Episodes will characteristic a solid of 30 dancers and the NYCB Orchestra performing 4 of Copland’s most acclaimed musical scores: Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man and Rodeo. The visible design for the ballet can be by the acclaimed American artist Jeffrey Gibson. A 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow, Gibson was born in Colorado of Choctaw and Cherokee descent, and is thought for incorporating components of Native American artwork and craft into his apply. The lighting design can be by frequent Peck collaborator Brandon Stirling Baker, who can be collaborating with Peck on their 30th manufacturing with this work. The costume design can be by former NYCB dancer Ellen Warren (Ostrom), who can be designing costumes for NYCB for the primary time. Copland Dance Episodes would be the first authentic full-evening work created for NYCB since Susan Stroman’s Double Feature in 2004, and solely the second full-evening, summary work to enter the Company’s repertory since George Balanchine’s Jewels was created in 1967. In addition to the premiere on January 26, Copland Dance Episodes can even be carried out on January 28 at 8pm, January 29 at 3pm, February 3 at 8pm, February 4 at 8pm, and February 7 at 7:30pm.
The second world premiere of the 2023 Winter Season, which can happen on February 1, can be a brand new work by dance artist and choreographer Keerati Jinakunwiphat, who’s at present a dancer with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, which she joined in 2016. This can be Jinakunwiphat’s first work choreographed for NYCB. In 2021, Jinakunwiphat participated within the Fall Working Session of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of NYCB, the place she started to develop this work for 9 dancers, which is about to 2 items of music by the Chinese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun: an excerpt from Run in a Graveyard and Air Glow, which acquired a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2019. The premiere can even mark the primary time that choreography and music by feminine Asian artists have entered the NYCB repertory.
New York-based designer Karen Young, who has labored with many choreographers together with Kyle Abraham, Pontus Lidberg, Benjamin Millepied and Troy Schumacher, will design the costumes, and the lighting design can be by Brooklyn-based designer Dan Scully. In addition to the premiere on February 1, the brand new Jinakunwiphat ballet, which can be included on a program with Alexei Ratmansky’s Voices and Peck’s Everywhere We Go, can even be carried out on February 8 at 7:30pm, February 9 at 7:30pm, and February 11 at 2pm and 8pm.
The Winter Season can even embrace 4 further works by George Balanchine: Allegro Brillante, Episodes, Firebird and Walpurgisnacht Ballet; two works by NYCB co-founding choreographer Jerome Robbins: Fancy Free and Rondo, which was premiered and was final carried out in 1980; and Christopher Wheeldon’s Liturgy.
The Winter Season will shut with a two-week run of the Company’s manufacturing of The Sleeping Beauty from February 15-26. The full-length staging, considered one of NYCB’s most lavish and elaborate productions, was created by Peter Martins in 1991, and is about to Tschaikovsky’s beloved rating. With greater than 100 dancers in every efficiency, together with college students from the School of American Ballet, the manufacturing options choreography after Marius Petipa and George Balanchine, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, units by David Mitchell and lighting by Mark Stanley.
All performances will happen on the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Tickets begin at simply $38 and can be found at nycballet.com,
