Jeux
(World Première)
New Choreography by Michael Vernon
Based on a concept by Vaslav Nijinsky
Jeux (1912-13)
composed by Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
Dancers
Oct. 9:
Samantha Benoit, Demetria Schioldager
Paul Dandridge
Alyssa Lynch Alex Shipley
Maxmillian Tortoriello Daniel Morales
Oct. 10:
Juliann Hyde, Caitlin Kirschenbaum
Ben Delony
Elizabeth Rodbell Heidi Satterthwaite
Vincent Brewer Dylan Giles
Pianists: Jooeun Pak and Hee-Seung Lee
Jeux, by Claude Debussy, was written for the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky. Michael Vernon has taken his original concept of a man and two women on a tennis court and has re-choreographed the ballet as a tribute to Diaghilev.
