Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)

Le Tombeau de Couperin
ChoreographerGeorge Balanchine
MusicMaurice Ravel
PremiereMay 29, 1975 (1975-05-29)
New York State Theater
Original ballet companyNew York City Ballet
DesignRonald Bates
GenreNeoclassical ballet

Le Tombeau de Couperin is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Ravel's eponymous orchestral music. The ballet features a cast of sixteen divided into two groups, dancing separately. Le Tombeau de Couperin was made for the New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, celebrating the composer's centenary, and premiered on May 29, 1975, at the New York State Theater.

Choreography

Le Tombeau de Couperin features eight couples divided into two groups, called quadrilles, that dances separately.[1]: 290  There are no principal roles in the ballet.[2] Balanchine wrote that the ballet "doesn't say anything beyond the combination of these dancers moving to Ravel's lovely score."[3]: 625  Dance critic Richard Buckle described, "The mood is both pastoral and elegiac."[1]: 290  Author Nancy Reynolds found that the ballet "did not observe the overtones of lament" in the score, but "retained the aura of formal dances" through the use of couples and geometric formations.[4]: 324 

Production

Balanchine decided that for French composer Maurice Ravel's centenary in 1975, the New York City Ballet would hold the Ravel Festival to honor him.[5] In the previous forty years, Balanchine had only made two ballets to Ravel's works.[4]: 319  However, he stated he always enjoyed his music and decided "it would be a good idea to celebrate this wonderful composer’s life and work by arranging new dances to as many scores as we could."[3]: 560  He decided to choreograph to Le Tombeau de Couperin, an orchestral score that was a tribute to both François Couperin and French music in general.[3]: 625 

Balanchine uncharacteristically completed the ballet early on in the rehearsal period, then moved on to work on other ballets. Fearing the choreography would be forgotten before the ballet's premiere, ballet master Rosemary Dunleavy gathered the cast and "got it back together again." Balanchine kept delaying his participation in these rehearsals despite Dunleavy's persuation. When he finally went to a rehearsal, it was also the first time he watched the ballet from the beginning to end.[1]: 290  The dancers are dressed in practice clothes. The lighting of the ballet is designed by Ronald Bates.[4]: 324 

Following Balanchine's death, Dunleavy inherited the rights to the ballet.[1]: 390 

Original cast

Source:[4]: 324 

Performances

Le Tombeau de Couperin premiered on May 29, 1975, at the New York State Theater, on the third program of the Ravel Festival,[5] conducted by Robert Irving.[4]: 324  The School of American Ballet, affiliated with the New York City Ballet, had its students perform the ballet.[6]

Critical reception

Reviewing a performance months after the premiere, Clive Barnes of the New York Times wrote, "In Le Tombeau de Couperin he just uses the ensemble, but he uses it with such grace and sensibility that it is itself a star. The ballet looks so handsome and its movements are so extraordinarily well‐aligned and well‐attuned to the music that the entire work from beginning to end absolutely sings. It is one of those ballets that you watch with ever developing wonderment and pleasure, and it should, in the future, stand as a kind of signature for the City Ballet ensemble."[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Buckle, Richard (1988). George Balanchine: Ballet Master : a Biography. ISBN 9780241121801.
  2. ^ Macaulay, Alastair (January 19, 2008). "Four Distinct Dream Worlds, Sharing the Same Language of Classical Ballet". New York Times.
  3. ^ a b c Balanchine, George; Mason, Francis (1977). Balanchine's Complete Stories of the Great Ballets. ISBN 9780385113816.
  4. ^ a b c d e Reynolds, Nancy (1977). Repertory in Review: 40 Years of the New York City Ballet. ISBN 9780803773684.
  5. ^ a b Kisselgoff, Anna (March 11, 1975). "City Ballet Plans 14 Works for Ravel Fete". New York Times.
  6. ^ Dunning, Jennifer (June 11, 2004). "Ballet Review; A New Generation Marches to the Balanchine Drumbeat". New York Times.
  7. ^ Barnes, Clive (November 22, 1975). "Ballet: Simple and Dense". New York Times.

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