Scènes de ballet (Wheeldon)

This article is about the Wheeldon ballet. For Frederick Ashton's 1947–48 ballet, see Scènes de ballet (Ashton). For John Taras' 1972 ballet (all three are to the same music), see Scènes de ballet (Taras).

Scénes de ballet was made on students from the School of American Ballet by Christopher Wheeldon to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1944 and is Wheeldon's second work for NYCB. The premiere took place on Wednesday, May 19, 1999, at the New York State Theater with costumes by Holly Hynes and set designed by Ian Falconer, a Russian ballet studio with bisected by a "real" barre and an imaginary mirror. 62 SAB students ranging from the very young to those in their last year of study are divided between "real" dancers and their "reflections" in the "mirror".

Casts

original

young dancers
  • Isabel Vondermuhll
  • Jan Burkhard
  • Zakary Yermolenko
  • Ryan Cardea

revivals

2006

first cast

  • Jérôme Tisserand

second cast

2010

  • Chase Swatosh

Notes

  1. 1 2 recipient of the Mae L. Wien Awards for Outstanding Promise

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