Ending its season in party-like mode, Texas Ballet Theater presents the mixed repertory program Artistic Director’s Choice at Bass Performance Hall this weekend.
There will be a world premiere by British choreographer Jonathan Watkins set to an original score by Dallas composer Ryan Cockerham. Their Crash explores the ebb and flow of the challenges of modern life and how to pick up the pieces after something goes terribly wrong. Costumes are by Kari Perkins, who also designed for the recent award-winning film Boyhood.
There also will be a Fort Worth premiere. Czech choreographer Jiri Kylian’s Petite Mort (“the little death,” an old French euphemism for “orgasm”) is set to the slow movements of Mozart’s piano concertos nos. 21 and 23. More sensual than erotic, the piece was created in 1991 for the Salzburg Festival’s observance of Mozart’s 1791 death.
The final work will be George Balanchine’s Rubies from his ballet Jewels, using Stravinsky’s 1929 Capriccio for piano and orchestra as a dazzling backdrop for some of his most exciting choreography.
Budgetary restraints mean no live music, but the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will be back in the pit next season. –– Leonard Eureka
[box_info]Texas Ballet Theater’s Artistic Director’s Choice is Fri-Sun at Bass Performance Hall, 555 Commerce St, FW. Tickets are $15-110. Call 817-731-0726.[/box_info]
