George Balanchine's Agon excerpt
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For Agon is, in Balanchine’s own words, “the quintessential contemporary ballet.” In it, the great collaboration between himself and Igor Stravinsky that had begun in 1928 with Apollo entered a breathtakingly new phase.
Declaring that “music like this has not been heard before,” Balanchine took up the challenge of this fiendishly—and to him, delectably—difficult score and choreographed a work that, matching the music in complexity and inventiveness, redefined ballet for our time.
Danced by Lesley Rausch & Karel Cruz.
CARMINA BURANA + AGON
Sept. 27 – Oct. 6, 2019
