A Suite of Dances

This article is about Robbins' 1994 ballet. For Robbins' 1980 ballet made to the music of Leonard Bernstein, see Suite of Dances (from Dybbuk Variations).

A Suite of Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins for Mikhail Baryshnikov to four movements from Bach's Six suites for unaccompanied cello:

• Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
• Sarabande from Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

• Gigue from Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
• Prelude from Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012

The premiere took place in March 1994 at the Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project; the City Ballet premiere was on 10 May of that year at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.

Casts

original

• Mikhail Baryshnikov

NYCB revivals

2007 Fall for Dance, New York City Center

• Damian Woetzel

2008 Spring, Jerome Robbins celebration

• Nicolas Le Riche

References

• Playbill, NYCB, Tuesday, June 17, 2008

• Repertory Week, NYCB, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 8

Articles

• NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, May 29, 1994

Reviews

• NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, March 5, 1994
• NY Times, Jack Anderson, May 12, 1994

• NY Times, Roslyn Sulcas, October 4, 2007
• NY Times, Gia Kourklas, June 16, 2008