MIDSUMMER: THE SERIES

TO THE SAME MUSIC...
ASHTON'S MENDELSSOHN: OBERON AND TITANIA, choreographed in 1964





Balanchine's Oberon: Edward Villella























Ashton's Anthony Dowell &Antoinette Sibley








Balanchine's Titania: Suzanne Farrell




















BALANCHINE'S MENDELSSOHN: TITANIA AND BOTTOM, choreographed in 1962








photos of Edward Villella and Suzanne Farrell courtesy New York City Ballet Archive

ISN"T IT ROMANTIC?

Henri Rousseau                           Night of Carnival                                               1886

CY TWOMBLY: April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011

Black Mountain College, 1952, photograph by Robert Rauschenberg

BALANCHINE'S AMERICA

Tanaquil LeClercq in Western Symphony (1954)
Melissa Hayden in Stars and Stripes (1958)
   





inspired by Heather Watts