282. À la Françaix 1951
- Music
Jean Françaix (Serenade for Small Orchestra, 1934)
- Choreography
George Balanchine
- Production
Scenery by Raoul Dufy. Lighting by Jean Rosenthal
- Premiere
September 11, 1951, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Leon Barzin
- Cast
Janet Reed, Maria Tallchief, André Eglevsky; Frank Hobi, Roy Tobias
Performance Type
Ballet
Note
A tennis-playing athlete flirts with a pretty girl until a ballerina dressed as a winged sylph appears and fascinates him; in the end the sylph, stripping down to a bathing suit, reveals herself to be an athlete too.
1953 American Festival Ballet (Idaho)
1953 San Franciso Ballet
1958 Eglevsky Ballet Company
1964 Eglevsky Ballet Company (revival)
1965 San Diego Ballet
1982 Kansas City Ballet
1983 Richmond Ballet, the State Ballet of Virginia
1985 Kansas City Ballet
1987 Stamford City Ballet
1995 Diablo Ballet
2004 New York Theatre Ballet
2012 Carolina Ballet
2013 Carolina Ballet
1953 (NBC, Kate Smith Hour)
