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The Unanswered Question (ballet)
''The Unanswered Question: Some Intimations of the American Composer Charles Ives'' is a ballet made by Eliot Feld to Charles Ives' '' The Unanswered Question'', ''Calcium Light Night'', ''Fugue in Four Keys, Mists'', ''From the Housatonic at Stockbridge'', Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin (''In the Barn''), ''Remembrance'' and ''An Old Song Deranged''. The premiere took place April 30, 1988, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, as part of New York City Ballet's American Music Festival with lighting by the Feld Ballet's Allen Lee Hughes and Willa Kim's costumes. Other works to the music of Ives in the City Ballet repertory include Peter Martins' ''Calcium Light Night'', Jerome Robbins' ''Ives, Songs'' and George Balanchine's ''Ivesiana''. Original cast * Valentina Kozlova * Buffy Miller * Leslie Roy * Damian Woetzel * Albert Evans * Jeppe Mydtskov * James Sewellguest artists from the Feld Ballet See also * List of ballets by title Footnotes External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld (born July 5, 1942) is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer, teacher, and director. Feld works in contemporary ballet. His company and schools, including the Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, are deeply committed to dance and dance education in New York City. Feld has choreographed 149 ballets since 1967, with his work being performed by such companies as American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the Juilliard School, New York City Ballet, the New York City Opera, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, among many others. Life and career Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Alice (née Posner), a travel agent, and Benjamin Noah Feld, an attorney. Feld attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York, and studied at the School of American Ballet and the New Dance Group, as well as with Richard Thomas (dancer), Richard Thomas and Donald McKayle. He performed as a child in George Balanchine's original production of ''The Nutcracker'' as the Nutcracker P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |