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73. GROTESQUE ESPAGNOL



Music: By Isaac Albéniz ('Córdoba' from Cantos de España, suite for piano, Op. 232, 1896), arranged by Alexei Archangelsky.

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

Production: Presented by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Guest. Conceived and directed by Nikita Balieff. Scenery and costume uncredited.

Premiere: October 10, 1927, Balieff's Chauve-Souris (The Bat Theatre of Moscow), Cosmopolitan Theater, New York. Conductor: S. Kogan.

Cast: Tamara Geva.

Note: Grotesque Espagnol, Sarcasm [74], and Romanesque [74.1] were three of nineteen numbers in the 1927 version of Chauve-Souris, annual productions by Nikita Balieff of evenings of Russian cabaret which toured Europe and America. According to Tamara Geva, Balanchine choreographed the first two--and perhaps the third--before the company departed from Paris for a New York season, where they became the first Balanchine works to be performed in America, and the first Balanchine choreography seen by Lincoln Kirstein. Geva is the only source for this information; there is no choreography credit for any of the numbers.

See also: 74   74.1   85.1   85.2   85.3  

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