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DARK ELEGIES
ABT - Fall, 2005. Julie Kent and Grant Delong
Photo courtesy of Sally Brayley Bliss
Synopsis:
Dark Elegies is danced to the Song Cycle Kindertotenlieder (“Songs on the Death of Children”)
by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). This is a work consisting of five songs to lyrics by Friedrich Rückert.
Tudor described this work as his favorite ballet. And many consider it to be his greatest. From tender moments
of quiet devastation to careering bursts of rage, Tudor’s “ballet requiem,” set to Mahler’s absorbing Kindertotenlieder,
expresses the raw emotion of a tight –knit community faced with the inexplicable loss of their beloved children.
Kindertotenlieder - German / English
Translation
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| Choreography |
| Antony Tudor |
| Music / Composer |
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder |
| Scenery / Costumes |
| Nadia Benois N/A |
| First Performance |
London - Duchess Theatre
February 19, 1937
Ballet Rambert |
| First Cast Performance |
| Peggy van Praagh, Maude Lloyd, Antony Tudor, Walter Gore, John Byron, Agnes de Mille, Hugh Laing,
Daphne Gow, Ann Gee, Patricia Clogstoun, Beryl Kay, Celia Franks (Franca), John Byron; Singer: Harold Child, Baritone |
| First US Performance |
New York - Center Theatre
January 24, 1940
Ballet Theater |
| First US Performance Cast |
| Nina Stroganova, Miriam Golden, Lucia Chase, Hugh Laing, Dmitri Romanoff, Antony Tudor |
| First Canadian Performance |
Kingston - Ontario
Kingston Memorial Centre
November 15, 1955
National Ballet of Canada |
| First Swedish Performance |
Stockholm
Royal Opera House
September 6, 1961
Royal Swedish Ballet |
| Swedish Costumes / Sets |
| Roland Svensson |
| First French Performance |
Paris - Opera Comique
February I8, 1985
Paris Opera Ballet
"Hommage a Antony Tudor" |
| Notated |
1980 by Airi Hynninen
(Labanotation)
1981 by Elizabeth Cunlieffe
(Benesh Notation)
1983 by Agneta Stjernlof
(Benesh Notation) |
| Number of Dancers |
| 3+5 Women, 3+1 Men |
| Average Length |
| 25 Minutes |
| Costumes |
| ABT, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Boston Conservatory; Star
Dancers (Japan); Jose Limon Dance Co. |
| Scenery |
| ABT, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Star Dancers (Japan) |
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