GREAT PERFORMANCES: A LINCOLN CENTER SPECIAL: A NEW YORK CITY BALLET TRIBUTE TO GEORGE BALANCHINE {LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER} (TV)
Summary
One in this series on the performing arts. In this program -- a special presentation from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City -- the New York City Ballet presents a tribute to legendary choreographer George Balanchine by presenting three segments of dance all choreographed by the man. (Performances were taped May 27-28, 1983.) Patrick Watson hosts and provides brief commentary before and after each segment. The first segment, "Vienna Waltzes," to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehar, and Richard Strauss, features dancing pairs Kyra Nichols and Sean Lavery, Heather Watts and Helgi Tomasson, Elyse Borne and Bart Cook, Karin von Aroldingen and Peter Martins, and Suzanne Farrell and Adam LŸders. The second segment, "Mozartiana," to music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, features dancers Suzanne Farrell, Victor Castelli, and Ib Anderson. The final segment, "Who Cares?," to music by George Gershwin as adapted and orchestrated by Hershy Kay, features dancers Lourdes Lopez, Heather Watts, Patricia McBride, and Sean Lavery. Jerry Zimmerman is the featured piano soloist.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Edward John Noble Foundation.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: October 10, 1983 Monday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:58:51
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:83332
- GENRE: Dance
- SUBJECT HEADING: Ballet; Dance
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1976-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- John Goberman … Producer
- Richard Baker … Associate Producer
- Emile Ardolino … Director
- George Gershwin … Composer
- Franz Lehar … Composer
- Johann Strauss … Composer
- Richard Strauss … Composer
- Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky … Composer
- Robert Irving … Conductor
- Hershy Kay … Music (Misc. Credits), Adaptation and orchestration of Gershwin
- George Balanchine … Choreographer
- Ib Anderson … Dancer
- Elyse Borne … Dancer
- Victor Castelli … Dancer
- Bart Cook … Dancer
- Suzanne Farrell … Dancer
- Sean Lavery … Dancer
- Lourdes Lopez … Dancer
- Adam Luders … Dancer
- Peter Martins … Dancer
- Patricia McBride … Dancer
- Kyra Nichols … Dancer
- Helgi Tomasson … Dancer
- von Aroldingen, Karin … Dancer
- Heather Watts … Dancer
- Jerry Zimmerman … Instrumentalist, Pianist
- Patrick Watson … Host