Dances at a Gathering

Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to the music of Frédéric Chopin:

Mazurka, Op. 63, No. 3

Waltz, Op. 69, No. 2

Mazurka, Op. 33, No. 3

Mazurka, Op. 6, No. 4

Mazurka, Op. 7, No. 5

Mazurka, Op. 7, No. 4

Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 2

Mazurka, Op. 6, No. 2

Waltz, Op. 42

Waltz, Op. 34, No. 2

Mazurka, Op. 56, No. 2

Etude, Op. 25, No. 4

Waltz, Op. 34, No. 1

Waltz, Op. 70, No. 2

Etude, Op. 25, No. 5

Etude, Op. 10, No. 2

Scherzo, Op. 20

Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 1

The premiere took place on Thursday, 22 May 1969 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Joe Eula and lighting by Thomas Skelton. Robbins made three other ballets to Chopin's music: The Concert, 1956; In the Night, 1970; and Other Dances, 1976, made for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova.

Casts

original

NYCB revivals

2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration

first cast

second cast

third cast

2008 Spring Dancers' Choice

2008 Summer tour to Copenhagen and Paris

Copenhagen

Paris

first cast

second cast

third cast

2009 Winter week four

first cast

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second cast

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third cast

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2009 Spring Dancers' Choice benefit

Stephanie Zungre^[3]

David Prottas^[3]

2009 Fall tour to Japan

first cast

second cast

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2010 Winter

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Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f first time in rôle
^ Joaquín De Luz replaced Benjamin Millepied.
^ ^a ^b All performers in Spring 2009 Dancers' Choice appeared for the first time in the rôles which they danced.

References

Playbill, New York City Ballet, Wednesday and Friday, June 4 and 6th, 2008

Repertory Week, New York City Ballet, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 6

Articles

Sunday New York Times by Clive Barnes, May 18, 1969

Reviews

NY Times by Jennifer Dunning, January 13, 1991
NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, June 6, 2008
NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, June 30, 2008

External links

Jerome Robbins Foundation and Trust website

NYCB website

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[first_time_in_role-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f first time in rôle

[De_Luz_Millepied-2] Joaquín De Luz replaced Benjamin Millepied.

[All_performers_in_Spring_2009_Dancers_Choice_appeared_for_the_first_time_in_the_roles_which_they_danced-3] All performers in Spring 2009 Dancers' Choice appeared for the first time in the rôles which they danced.

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v t e Jerome Robbins
Ballets	2 and 3 Part Inventions Afternoon of a Faun Andantino Antique Epigraphs Brahms/Handel Brandenburg The Cage Circus Polka The Concert Dances at a Gathering Dybbuk Fancy Free Fanfare The Firebird Four Bagatelles The Four Seasons Gershwin Piano Concerto Glass Pieces The Goldberg Variations I'm Old Fashioned In G Major In Memory of ... In the Night Interplay Ives, Songs Mother Goose Moves Les Noces N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz Opus 19/The Dreamer Other Dances Piano Pieces Requiem Canticles Suite of Dances A Suite of Dances Tricolore Watermill West Side Story Suite
Musicals	Peter Pan (1954) West Side Story (1957), concept
Films	On the Town (1949), "based on an idea by Jerome Robbins" West Side Story (1961)