Italian exclusive

Production Spoleto52 Festival dei 2Mondi

The evening's performers are Principal Dancers and Soloists of the New York City Ballet and dance courtesy of the company.
The ballets In The Night and Other Dances are performed courtesy of The Robbins Right Trust.

program

IN THE NIGHT
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Music Frederic Chopin performed to piano from Cameron Grant
Costumes Anthony Dowell
Performers Jared Angle, Maria Kowroski, Amar Ramasar, Jenifer Ringer, Jonathan Stafford, Wendy Whelan
Inspired by Chopin's music In the Night describes the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship of three couples during a dance.

PASSAGE FOR TWO
excerpts from the film in process
"N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (The Film)"
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Music Robert Prince
Performers Rachel Rutherford, Craig Hall

UPON to GROUND
Choreography and costumes Luca Veggetti
Music and sound design Paolo Aralla Upon to Ground for cello and electroacoustic device
Dancers Georgina Pazcoguin, Amar Ramasar, Sean Suozzi
Cello Naomi Berrill
The piece explores the particular nature of the relationship between music and dance, in other words, between movement, space, time and sound. In their differences, the skills peculiar to the dancer and the musician create a linguistic universe of symbols, syntaxes and customs connected from a dense network of analogies, each teaching the other its vocabulary within the same stage space, a place where the time of sound and the time of movement coexist in a kind of free polyphony.

"Upon to Ground" is a world premiere commissioned from The Jerome Robbins Foundation as a tribute to Jerome Robbins

OTHER DANCES
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Music Frédéric Chopin performed on piano from Cameron Grant
Costumes Santo Loquasto
Performers Gonzalo Garcia, Tiler Peck
Other Dances pays homage to the romanticism of Chopin as well as the purity of ballet technique. On stage two solo dancers of intense drama perform a series of short dances with folk infusions.

Jerome Robbins
is internationally recognized both as a choreographer and as a director and choreographer in theater, film and television. Although he began as a modern dancer, his beginning to Broadway was as a "chorus dancer" before joining to the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theatre in 1939, where he danced, principal roles, in works by Fokine, Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Lichine, and de Mille. Her first ballet, Fancy Free (1944) for ABT, still in many repertories, celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 18, 1994. While he was beginning his career in theater, Robbins simultaneously created ballets for the New York City Ballet, which he joined to in 1949, becoming Associate Artistic Director along with to George Balanchine. Robbins directed both works for television and film, helping to direct and creating the choreography for West Side Story that earned him two Academy Awards. After his to Broadway triumph with Fiddler On the Roof in 1964, J. Robbins continued to creating ballets for the New York City Ballet, sharing the role of Ballet-Master with Peter Martins until 1989.
Among the more than 60 ballets from he has created are Afternoon of to Faun (1953), The Concert (1956), Lles Noces (1965), Dances at to Gathering (1969), In the Night (1970), In G Major (1975), Other Dances (1976), Glass Pieces (1983) and Ives, Songs (1989) which are still part of the repertoire of the New York City Ballet and other among the world's leading ballet companies. Among his latest ballets are to Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996) which all made their New York City Ballet debuts.
In addition to two Academy Awards for the film West Side Story. Robbins has received four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, two Emmy Awards, the Screen Directors´ Guild Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Robbins was also a 1981 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and was named a Commendatore of the Order of Arts and Letters; he is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute for the Arts and Letters, and has been the recipient of both the National Medal of Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts Government Award.
Among his to Brodway shows are On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His last production to Broadway in 1989, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, won six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Director. He was recently named a French Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. Jerome Robbins passed away in1998.

Luca Veggetti

Trained at the ballet school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, after a career as a dancer ( London Festival Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Chicago ), he began in 1990 an assiduous collaboration with set designer and director Pier Luigi Pizzi as a choreographer and assistant working in major European theaters in top events.

First Italian choreographer in the xx century to be invited to to work with the legendary Kirov company at the Marinski Theater in St. Petersburg
In 2000 he was artistic director of an evening-event at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus where he created, as choreographer, the world premiere of Emmeleia ( Koukos ) for Julia Makhalina of the Kirov Ballet
In 2002 he created at the Teatro Carignano in Turin Ermafrodito, a choreographic event centered on the world stage creation of Sylvano Bussotti's Ermafrodito for guitar destined as a ballet by the composer himself
In 2004 he was invited from Peter Martins to two sessions of the New York Choreographic Insitute producing November Steps ( Takemitsu ) and Duo (Hosokawa) with the New York City Ballet
In March 2007 the Guggenheim Museum to NY devoted two evenings to his work as a choreographer in relation to the music of composer Toshio Hosokawa as part of the "Works and Process" series commissioning the world premiere of NIGHT/SOUNDS
In September 2008 he staged, at the Miller Theater in NY in co-production with W&P at the Guggenheim, the world premiere of the complete version of Iannis Xenakis' Oresteia.
The next engagements include commissions for: Opera in Rome, Jerome Robbins Foundation for the Spoleto Festival, Juilliard School NY, SUNY Purchase NY, Milanoltre Festival, a new production of Toshio Hosokawa'sopera "Hanjo" for Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and an evening devoted to the relationship between Xenakis and Japan at Judson Church in New York

He actively collaborates with composers: Toshio Hosokawa, Sylvano Bussotti, Gerhard Staebler, Huang Ruo, Paolo Aralla and with contemporary music ensembles such as: MusikFabrik Cologne, ICE Enemble NY, Either Or NY, FontanaMIX to Bologna.

He has created numerous ballets, including, most recently:

Night/Sounds (Hosokawa) at the Guggenheim Museum, NY
Inner Shore (Hosokawa) for the NWPDP to Portland
FOUR/VOICE (Aralla) with NYCB dancers for the Miller Theater to NY in co-production with W&P at the Guggenheim
Apollon Musagete (Stravinsky) for the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome with sets and costumes by Giorgio De Chirico
Play for dancer (Aralla - Scarlini/Yeats) at PIM Spazio Scenico in Milan
Scenario (Aralla - Duras) for the dancers of the Paris Opera to Fontainebleau
Variations III (Cage) at MAMbo to Bologna
Oresteia (Xenakis) for Miller Theater NY in co-production with W&P at the Guggenheim
Memory/measure (Aralla) for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet NY

‍