Episode 152: Hear the Dance: Antique Epigraphs

We're launching a new season of City Ballet The Podcast with an enlightening Hear the Dance conversation on Jerome Robbins' Antique Epigraphs. Host Silas Farley is joined by former NYCB dancers and original cast members Maria Calegari and Heléne Alexopoulos, and current Repertory Director Rebecca Krohn, who performed several roles in the work and now coaches today's performers. They describe learning this lyrical ballet, following the delicate Debussy score through its unique solos and romantic passages for the cast of "eight glamorous women." (49:32)

Written by Silas Farley

Edited by Emilie Silvestri

Music:

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (1931) by Igor Stravinsky

Six Epigraphes Antiques (1915), orchestrated by Ernest Ansermet (1932) and Syrinx (1912)

All music performed by New York City Ballet Orchestra

Reading List:

Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill

Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir by Jerome Robbins Edited by Amanda Vaill

Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography by François Lesure, Translated by Marie Rolf

Documenting: Lighting Design (Performing Arts Resources, Vol. 25) Jennifer Tipton, Contributing Author