[The return of!] a highly personal and subjective list of performances and artists we want you to know about:
Leigh says:
Lincoln Kirstein was not just the patron of New York City Ballet, he was one of the patron saints of American modernism. Brusque yet cultured, queer yet married, assailed by bipolar demons and still at the center of a community of artists in New York City, don’t underestimate his greatness as a writer or his supportive influence on art and modernism in the 20th century.
MoMA hasn’t – its exhibition of “Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern” opens on March 17 and runs through June 15, the exhibition includes set and costume designs for ballets, photographs, paintings and Latin American art. Plus, on March 16-18 at 12 pm and 3 pm, 18 dancers from New York City Ballet will perform excerpts from four of Balanchine’s top-shelf works that encapsulate the American ballet that Kirstein fostered: “Concerto Barocco,” “The Four Temperaments,” “Orpheus,” and “Agon.” The casting is yummy, some familiar and some surprises – watch for Miriam Miller in Third Theme of “4Ts” and Peter Walker in the first pas de trois in “Agon.” Eighteen dancers will perform, corps member Silas Farley will host.
Performances take place in the atrium on the second floor – there’s limited seating and standing room and it’s first-come, first-served. Tickets are free with museum admission.
Cover: Peter Walker in “Agon.” Photo © Erin Baiano.
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