Hear the Dance: Music for the Ballet

02/21/2022

From tonight’s program…Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patricia McBride in Balanchine’s wistful The Steadfast Tin Soldier with music by Georges Bizet. Tune in to KMUN, 9pm pst.

Originally the two lead dancers were supposed to be me and Gelsey Kirkland, and Balanchine was reviving this older ballet of his especially for us. Unfortuna...

01/31/2022

When was the last time you watched Maurice Bejart's Bolero? Which do you prefer? A female or male in the role?
Check out Diana Vishneva and/or Nicholas Le Riche dancing the ballet here. And catch Ravel's score for Bolero on tonight's episode of Hear the Dance on KMUN, 9pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-EysmxRuQ&t=925s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7FfCXW-LuM&t=821s

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01/24/2022

Here, NYCB Principal Sara Mearns discusses the Stripper role in Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Happy Birthday, Mr. B!

Sara Mearns explores an entirely different side of her dancing when performing as the high-kicking Stripper in Balanchine's vampy SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE

01/24/2022

A clip from George Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie, music by Glinka, starring New York City Ballet soloist Erica Perieira in the lead female role.

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01/24/2022

A quick clip of New York City Ballet's Tiler Peck in Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15.

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01/24/2022

Enjoy this clip of Pacific Northwest Ballet performing Balanchine's RUBIES. Yesterday, January 22, would have been his 118th birthday.

Choreographed for Patricia McBride and Edward Villella, two of the most vivacious dancers in American dance history, Rubies effuses glam wit and jazzy chic.F...

01/24/2022

Also from tonight's show, Balanchine's RUBIES, with music by his friend and contemporary, Igor Stravinsky. Here, the ballet is discussed by New York City Ballet's Sterling Hyltin.

Sterling Hyltin breaks down the playful and quirky pas de deux in George Balanchine’s Rubies, a singular work in his oeuvre which gives the dancers the chanc...

01/24/2022

Enjoy Patricia McBride and Edward Villella in Balanchine's Tarantella. Both originated the roles of this ballet and are just dazzling in this video from the 1960s.

A live performance from the mid 1960's of the electric Patricia McBride and Edward Villella in one of their signature roles. Not even Baryshnikov (or anyone...

01/24/2022

From tonight's show, Balanchine's Tarantella, with music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, discussed here by New York City Ballet's Daniel Ulbricht. 'sBirthday

Principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht describes how George Balanchine turned an Italian folk dance based on a myth about spiders into a six minute powerhouse of a...

01/24/2022

Tonight on Hear the Dance, we celebrate George Balanchine's birthday, with an all-Balanchine program, featuring music for his ballets TARANTELLA, RUBIES, THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS, DIVERTIMENTO NO. 15, and more. On KMUN, 9-11pm.

12/27/2021

Tonight on the show…music for ballets created for, or made famous by, Tannaquil Leclercq. Please join us for music that spans her triumphant career and her tragic demise. On KMUN, 9-11pm!