Concerto DSCH

Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 (1957). The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. The ballet's title derives from the composer's use of DSCH, a musical motif in allusion to his own name.

Casts

original

• Wendy Whelan
• Ashley Bouder

• Benjamin Millepied
• Joaquín De Luz
• Gonzalo Garcia

NYCB revivals

2009 Fall tour to Japan

• Wendy Whelan
• Ana Sophia Scheller

• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• Gonzalo Garcia
• Joaquín De Luz

2010 Winter gala

Tuesday, November 20, 2009

• Wendy Whelan
• Ashley Bouder

• Benjamin Millepied
• Joaquín De Luz
• Gonzalo Garcia

• Alina Dronova
• Kaitlyn Gilliland
• Gretchen Smith

• Christian Tworzyanski
• Russell Janzen
• Justin Peck

• Likolani Brown
• Lauren King
• Georgina Pazcoguin
• Kristen Segin

• Joshua Thew
• Cameron Dieck
• Andrew Scordato
• Devin Alberda

Other ballet companies

2011 Premiere, Pacific Northwest Ballet

Friday, March 18, 2011

• Carla Körbes
• Carrie Imler

• Karel Cruz
• Seth Orza
• Bakthurel Bold

2012 Premiere at Teatro alla Scala

Thursday, May 3, 2012

• Svetlana Zakharova
• Alessandra Vassallo

• Eris Nezha
• Antonino Sutera
• Federico Fresi

2013 Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre

Thursday, July 4, 2013

• Yekaterina Kondaurova
• Nadezhda Batoeva

• Andrey Ermakov
• Alexander Sergeyev
• Vasily Tkachenko

Reviews

• NY Post by Clive Barnes, June 2, 2008
• NY Sun by Joel Lobenthal, June 2, 2008
• NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, May 31, 2008
• NY Times music by James R. Oestreich, October 20, 1990
• The Seattle Times by Moira Macdonald, March 12, 2011.
• DanceTabs by Laura Cappelle on May 9, 2012
• "Вечерний Петербург", статья Михаила Антонова. 8 июля 2013 г.

External links

• NYCB website