The Royal Ballet - Agon/Sphinx/Limen
From: Wednesday, 4th November 2009
To: Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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Our Review:
Sarah Frater - 10 November 2009
Sam Goldwyn famously said that modern danced soon looked old fashioned. The Royal Ballet’s latest mixed bill proves him hilariously correct, although it also shows that he was very wrong.
The programme starts with George Balanchine’s Agon, which is a masterwork of timeless modernity. It was made in 1957 and it looks as startlingly fresh now as it must have done when the porcelain skinned Diana Adams premiered the piece with the African-American Arthur Mitchell. The significance of Balanchine casting a black male dancer in an America that was still segregated cannot be over-stated. The black and white costumes, and Stravinsky’s music that parries the piano's black and white notes further emphasize the contrast or conflict suggested in the work’s title (it’s Greek for contest, debate or struggle).
Combine all that with Balachine’s extraordinary balances in the duets and his action-filled moves for the corps, and you have a work of en...
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Royal Ballet (Producer)
Daniel Capps (Agon) (Conductor)
Barry Wordsworth (Sphinx/New McGregor) (Conductor)
Igor Stravinsky (Agon) (Music)
George Balanchine (Agon) (Choreographer)
Rouben Ter-Aruntunian (Scenery Agon) (Design)
Willa Kim (Agon) (Costume)
John B. Read (Agon) (Lighting)
Patricia Neary (Staging Agon) (Other)
Bohuslav Martinu (Sphinx) (Music)
Glen Tetley (Sphinx) (Choreographer)
Rouben Ter-Aruntunian (Scenery Sphinx) (Design)
Willa Kim (Sphinx) (Costume)
John B. Read (Sphinx) (Lighting)
Bronwen Curry (Staging Sphinx) (Other)
Jaija Saariaho (New McGregor) (Music)
Wayne McGregor (Limen) (Choreographer)
Tatsuo Mayajima (Scenery Limen) (Design)
Moritz Junge (Limen) (Costume)
Lucy Carter (Limen) (Lighting)
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