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Concerto barocco ; [and] Orpheus [Wide shot]

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Title

Concerto barocco ; [and] Orpheus [Wide shot]

Collection

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation
George Balanchine Celebration

Names

New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Lopez, Lourdes (Dancer)
Nichols, Kyra (Dancer)
Fischer, Lindsay (Dancer)
Martins, Nilas (Dancer)
Lüders, Adam (Dancer)
Whelan, Wendy (Dancer)
Lyon, Robert, 1968- (Dancer)
White, Diana (Dancer)
Gold, Tom (Dancer)
Figueroa, Guillermo (Instrumentalist)
Danielson, Nick (Instrumentalist)
Boelzner, Gordon (Conductor)
Balanchine, George (Choreographer)
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 (Composer)
Stanley, Mark (Lighting designer)
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 (Composer)
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988 (Designer)
Bates, Ronald (Lighting designer)
Millard, Jay (Videographer)
New York City Ballet (Performer)
George Balanchine Trust (Associated name)
New York Public Library. Dance Collection (Associated name)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1993-05-12

Table Of Contents

Concerto barocco (ca. 23 min.) / music, Johann Sebastian Bach (Double violin concerto in D minor) ; lighting, Mark Stanley ; danced by Lourdes Lopez, Kyra Nichols, and Lindsay Fischer, with Tatiana Garcia-Stefanovich, Michele Gifford, Lydia Harmsen, Romy Karz, Teresa Reyes, Jenifer Ringer, Catherine Ryan, and Jennifer Tinsley ; first violin, Guillermo Figueroa ; second violin, Nicolas Danielson. |||| Orpheus (ca. 33 min.) / music, Igor Stravinsky ; scenery and costumes, Isamu Noguchi ; lighting, Ronald Bates ; performed by Nilas Martins (Orpheus) ; Adam Lüders (Dark angel) ; Wendy Whelan (Eurydice) ; Robert Lyon (Apollo) ; William Otto (Pluto) ; Tom Gold (Satyr) ; Romy Karz, Jenifer Ringer, Catherine Ryan, Jennifer Tinsley (nature spirits) ; Samantha Allen, Wendy Drapala, Jennifer Fuchs, Isabel Kimmel, Andrea Long, Pascale van Kipnis, Inmaculada Velez, Elizabeth Walker, Charles Anderson, James Fayette, Arch Higgins, Richard Marsden, Robert Wersinger (furies) ; Christopher Boehmer, Andrew Robertson, Alexander Ritter, Jian Wang, Runsheng Ying (lost souls) ; Diana White with Jade Adams, Aura Dixon, Michele Gifford, Dana Hanson, Lydia Harmsen, Heather Hawk, Janey McGeary, Santhe Tsetsilas, Melissa Walter (bacchantes) ; Melissa Walter, Aura Dixon, Andrew Robertson (friends of Orpheus).

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 9-4275A

Subjects

Balanchine, George
New York City Ballet
Balanchine Celebration (1993 : New York City Ballet)
Ballet
Mythology, Greek
Orpheus (Greek mythology)

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Creation/Production Credits: [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine.
Content: Recording made possible by the cooperation of the New York City Ballet, The George Balanchine Trust, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Performers: Performed by New York City Ballet.
Performers: Conductor: Gordon Boelzner.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 12, 1993, during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Wide shot version ; for close shot, see *MGZIC 9-4275B.
Funding: Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (U-matic SP) (45 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12176467
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9247e230-f872-0130-b036-3c075448cc4b

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Concerto barocco ; [and] Orpheus [Wide shot]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1993. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9247e230-f872-0130-b036-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1993). Concerto barocco ; [and] Orpheus [Wide shot] Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9247e230-f872-0130-b036-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Concerto barocco ; [and] Orpheus [Wide shot]" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9247e230-f872-0130-b036-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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