418. Tempo di Valse: Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty 1981
- Music
Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (as given below)
- Choreography
George Balanchine (two of five parts), Jacques d’Amboise, and John Taras
- Production
Costumes for GARLAND DANCE by Karinska (from DIAMONDS in Jewels [358] and Chaconne [400]) and Rouben Ter-Arutunian (from Coppélia [387])
- Premiere
June 9, 1981, New York City Ballet with students from the School of American Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Robert Irving
- Cast
GARLAND DANCE from The Sleeping Beauty, Act I (produced 1890): 25 women, 16 men, 16 young girls
Performance Type
Ballet
See Also
-
65. Aurora's Wedding. Ariadne and Her Brothers,
225. Pas de Deux (Grand Adagio),
259. Princess Aurora,
281. The Sleeping Beauty. Variation from Aurora's Wedding,
404. The Sleeping Beauty. Aurora's Solo, Vision Scene
Note
Included in the Tchaikovsky Festival. Sixteen couples dance, each couple holding aloft a garland of flowers in the form of an arch; a chain of little girls enters, weaving under the garlands, and is joined by nine older girls. In addition to the GARLAND DANCE, the short works presented under the general title Tempo di Valse during the Tchaikovsky Festival (and later in the season) were the WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS from The Nutcracker [302] by Balanchine, VALSE-SCHERZO by d’Amboise, and VARIATION VI FROM TRIO IN A MINOR and WALTZ FROM EUGENE ONEGIN, ACT II by Taras. (See FESTIVALS DIRECTED BY BALANCHINE.)
2003 Suzanne Farrell Ballet
