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Discounted tickets available to PA3 members for Firebird (World Premiere) PLUS Rite of Spring & Afternoon of a Faun Wednesday, March 12 - 7:30pm - McCarter Theatre |
$25 tickets This discounted ticket price (original price: $50) for American Repertory Ballet's Firebird performance is available to all PA3 members. ARB will present Firebird at McCarter Theatre on March 12, 2014 at 7:30pm. This program is appropriate for children ages 9 and up.
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About ARB's Firebird Program at McCarter Theatre
7:30pm American Repertory Ballet will present an evening of ballets inspired by the 20th century works of Sergei Diaghilev's revolutionary Ballets Russes. The ambitious program features: the premiere of Artistic Director Douglas Martin's Firebird, set to a compelling score by Stravinsky, Martin's Rite of Spring, also set to music by Stravinsky, and Kirk Peterson's Afternoon of a Faun, set to Debussy's provocative score. What the critics have said: Kirk Peterson's Afternoon of a Faun "[Peterson's] Faun retains its setting of a Grecian idyll, but the characters, a faun that is half-human/half-beast and a flirtatious nymph, interact with more tender innocence than Nijinsky's originals, which caused a scandal at the 1912 premiere in Paris with their eroticism." He goes on to say, "Peterson's movements seem like the natural expression of Debussy's heated music....a re-interpretation with "stunning impact." -- Tony Angarano, The Courant Douglas Martin's Rite of Spring "Part sentimental tribute and part screwball comedy, Martin's Rite avoids primitivist clichés and, in gender parity, it manages to find a concept still radical enough to make audiences squirm." -- Robert Johnson, The Star-Ledger "Mr. Martin's choreography fills the stage...an indescribable potpourri that work together because they fit both Mr. Martin's concept and the Stravinsky score...a tribute to Mr. Martin's choreographic ability." -- Jerry Hochman, Critical Dance Join us after the show... for a special talk-back with choreographers Douglas Martin and Kirk Peterson! Lockwood Lobby of McCarter Theatre, directly following the performance. HELP US SUPPORT A PICS INTERN WITH THE ARB PA3 has agreed to sponsor a 2014 summer internship for a Princeton undergrad with the ARB. We need your help to make the PA3 - PICS internship a reality. Please visit this page to make a donation. |
