American Ballet Theatre: Don Quixote and a Mixed Repertory Program
The celebrated ABT offers a feast of choreographic fireworks with its spirited staging of Don Quixote--praised for its "glorious passages of choreography" (The New York Times)--plus a mixed repertory program.
- Apr. 15 - 20, 2014
- Opera House
- $25.00 - $109.00
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American Ballet Theatre
Kevin McKenzie, Artistic Director
with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra
Don Quixote
(4/17–4/20)
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Staged by Kevin McKenzie and Susan Jones
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Mixed Repertory
(4/15 & 4/16)
to include The Dream (Ashton/Mendelssohn)
"American ballet at its peak!"
--The Washington Post
"Glorious passages of choreography… witty timing and humor"
--The New York Times
For five performances, the stage explodes with one show-stopping performance after another in American Ballet Theatre's Don Quixote, hailed as a feast of "choreographic fireworks" by New York Newsday. Matadors, gypsies, lively street scenes, and a giant windmill all evoke a storybook Spain, powered by nonstop dancing set to Ludwig Minkus's melodic score. The New York Times says ABT's dancers "have exactly the right tone of… enjoyment to make the audience relish every finger-snapping, high-jumping moment."
The company also dances an exciting mixed repertory program of works from its acclaimed repertory. Celebrating 450 years since Shakespeare's birth, the program will include The Dream, Sir Frederick Ashton's 1964 one-act ballet based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Kevin McKenzie, Artistic Director
with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra
Don Quixote
(4/17–4/20)
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Staged by Kevin McKenzie and Susan Jones
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Mixed Repertory
(4/15 & 4/16)
to include The Dream (Ashton/Mendelssohn)
"American ballet at its peak!"
--The Washington Post
"Glorious passages of choreography… witty timing and humor"
--The New York Times
For five performances, the stage explodes with one show-stopping performance after another in American Ballet Theatre's Don Quixote, hailed as a feast of "choreographic fireworks" by New York Newsday. Matadors, gypsies, lively street scenes, and a giant windmill all evoke a storybook Spain, powered by nonstop dancing set to Ludwig Minkus's melodic score. The New York Times says ABT's dancers "have exactly the right tone of… enjoyment to make the audience relish every finger-snapping, high-jumping moment."
The company also dances an exciting mixed repertory program of works from its acclaimed repertory. Celebrating 450 years since Shakespeare's birth, the program will include The Dream, Sir Frederick Ashton's 1964 one-act ballet based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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