This could be irresistible.
Stella Abrera and Jennie Somogyi on the same program; a brand new work by Justin Peck; and Taylor Stanley debuting in Tarantella.
Valse-Fantasie
Music: Valse Fantaisie in B minor by Mikhail Glinka
Choreography: George Balanchine
Premiere: 1967
Dancers: Patrica Delgado, Jared Angle, Krisitin Segin, Sarah Adams, Lydia Wellington, Gretchen Smith
Mercurial Manoeuvres (excerpt)
Music: Piano Concerto No. 1 by Dimitri Shostakovich
Choreography: Christoper Wheeldon
Premiere: 2000, New York State Theater. Lincoln Center.
Dancers: Tyler Angle, Jennie Somogyi
Justin Peck World Premiere
Music: Sonata in A Major by Franz Schubert
Choreography: Justin Peck
Premiere: July 2013 Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival
Dancers: Patricia Delgado, Jared Angle, Sterling Hyltin, Taylor Stanley
Pianist: Cameron Grant
INTERMISSION
Seven Sonatas
Music: Keyboard Sonatas K, 30, 39, 198, 450, 474, 481,547 by Domenico Scarlatti
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky
Premiere: 2009, The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College
Dancers: David Hallberg, Xiomara Reyes, Stella Abrera, Blaine Hoven, Christine Shevchenko, Joseph Phillips
Pianist: Cameron Grant
INTERMISSION
Mopey
Music: CPE Bach Cello Concerto in A Minor, 3rd Movement and Surfin’ Bird by The Cramps
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Premiere: 2011, Pacific Northwest Ballet, McCaw Hall
Dancer: Sean Suozzi
Sanguinic, the second movement from The Four Temperments (excerpt)
Music: The Four Temperments by Paul Hindemith
Choreography: George Balanchine
Premiere: 1946, Ballet Society
Dancers: Tyler Angle, Jennie Somogyi, Sara Adams, Gretchen Smith, Kristin Segin, Lydia Wellington
Tarantella
Music: Grande Tarantelle by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Choreography: George Balanchine
Premiere: 1964, City Center of Music and Drama, New York City
Dancers: Sterling Hyltin, Taylor Stanley
Tickets go on sale July 1st on the Nantucket Antheneum website.