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NEW YORK CITY BALLET NEW YORK STATE THEATER, NEW YORK, NY APRIL 26-JUNE 26, 2005
Jerome Robbins choreographed NY Export: Opus Jazz for his own company, Ballets USA, in 1958. Almost 50 years later, its NYCB premiere this spring overshadowed the company's other new ballets.
Robbins' depictions of mid-20th-century teen culture, from the innocent flirtations he explored in the 1945 Interplay and the aggressive tensions of warring gangs and musical styles in the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, are revisited in this meticulously crafted ballet, staged by Edward Verso. Robert Prince's upbeat score supports Robbins' venture into Latin and African rhythms. In generic colored sweatshirts and black pants by Florence Klotz and set against Ben Shahn's cityscapes, 16 adolescents register emotional tumult through the ballet's five sections, from the jazzy finger-snapping that punctuates explosions of physical vigor to the sparse but moving duet between two tentative lovers, Rachel Rutherford and Craig Hall....
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