Agon (ballet) - Wikipedia
WEBAgon is a 22-minute ballet for twelve dancers with music by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by George Balanchine. Stravinsky began composition in December 1953 but was interrupted the next year; he resumed work in …
Agon - New York City Ballet
WEBThe apex of Balanchine’s collaborations with Igor Stravinsky, Agon is an intense masterpiece and signature NYCB work, ever contemporary in its athletic competitiveness. The Agon pieces were all modeled after examples in a …
Agon - Balanchine
WEBAgon is the Greek word for contest; the movements of the ballet are named after French court dances. The score was commissioned by New York City Ballet with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation and dedicated to Lincoln Kirstein and Balanchine by the composer.
Balanchine's "Agon" - YouTube
WEBDiana Adams and Arthur Mitchell in George Balanchine's "Agon" (1957). Adams and Mitchell danced the premiere for the New York City Ballet on December 1, 1957...
NYC Ballet's Maria Kowroski on George Balanchine’s AGON ... - YouTube
WEBJan 10, 2018 · Agon translates as “contest” in Greek, and the ballet’s central pas de deux is a back-and-forth conversation between a couple, manifested in physical form. Maria Kowroski discusses how this...
Agon | George Balanchine - Pacific Northwest Ballet
WEBMar 30, 1993 · For Agon is, in Balanchine’s own words, “the quintessential contemporary ballet.” In it, the great collaboration between himself and Stravinsky that had begun in 1928 with Apollo entered a breathtakingly new phase.
George Balanchine's Agon excerpt - YouTube
WEBAug 27, 2019 · For Agon is, in Balanchine’s own words, “the quintessential contemporary ballet.”. In it, the great collaboration between himself and Igor Stravinsky that had begun in 1928 with Apollo ...
Agon - Miami City Ballet
WEBGeorge Balanchine’s Agon is a tour de force set to a groundbreaking Stravinsky score that features twelve dancers creating mesmerizing movement as they come together in pairs, trios, and quartets.
Agon - Balanchine - Ballet - The New York Times
WEBNov 25, 2007 · In recent decades New York City Ballet has often revived that “Apollo”-“Orpheus”-“Agon” trilogy. These ballets made the company historic. Is any explanation now needed of how daring...
Agon - Kenneth MacMillan
WEBMacMillan’s Agon was premiered at Covent Garden eight months after New York City Ballet first danced George Balanchine’s definitive version for which the score had been commissioned.
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