Pictures at an Exhibition (ballet)
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David H. Koch Theater
| Pictures at an Exhibition | |
|---|---|
| Choreographer | Alexei Ratmansky |
| Music | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Premiere | October 2, 2014 David H. Koch Theater |
| Original ballet company | New York City Ballet |
| Design | Adeline André Wendall K. Harrington |
Pictures at an Exhibition is a ballet choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to Mussorgsky's eponymous score. The ballet premiered on October 2, 2014, at the David H. Koch Theater, danced by the New York City Ballet.
Ratmansky's Pictures at an Exhibition is performed by five men and five women.[1] The original cast includes Wendy Whelan, who had been cast in all of Ratmansky's works for the New York City Ballet at that point and was scheduled to retire from ballet at the end of the season.[2][3]
The score by Mussorgsky is about a posthumous exhibition of works by Viktor Hartmann. However, Wassily Kandinsky's painting Color Study: Squares With Concentric Circles is projected on stage, designed by Wendall K. Harrington.[1] Adeline André designed the costumes.[4]
The Pacific Northwest Ballet made their debut in Pictures of an Exhibitions in 2017. Whelan staged the ballet for the company, though she had never staged a ballet before. She said she watched the video footage of the ballet repeatedly and spent hours every day over a month to write down the steps.[3]
Original cast
Original cast:[1]
- Sara Mearns
- Tiler Peck
- Abi Stafford
- Wendy Whelan
- Gretchen Smith
- Tyler Angle
- Adrian Danchig-Waring
- Gonzalo Garcia
- Amar Ramasar
- Joseph Gordon