Be wise, taste wines and adjusts your boundless hope to the cup of life, which is small. Even as we speak cruel time flees jealous. Harvest the present day, the morrow is uncertain. Seize the day. Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 b.C.)
Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour, “After the Rain”, choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Arvo Pärt [“Tabula Rasa” (First movement – “Ludus”, 1977) and “Spiegel Im Spiegel”, 1978], costumes by Holly Hynes, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere on January 22, 2005, New York State Theater, New York City, USA.
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Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour, “After the Rain”, choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Arvo Pärt [“Tabula Rasa” (First movement – “Ludus”, 1977) and “Spiegel Im Spiegel”, 1978], costumes by Holly Hynes, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere on January 22, 2005, New York State Theater, New York City, USA.
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Sara Mearns and Ask la Cour, “Walpurgisnacht Ballet”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Charles Gounod (“Faust”), costumes by Barbara Karinska, New York City Ballet, USA.
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Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour, “After the rain” choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Arvo Pärt [“Tabula Rasa” (First movement – “Ludus”, 1977) and “Spiegel Im Spiegel”, 1978], costumes by Holly Hynes, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere on January 22, 2005, New York State Theater, New York City, USA.
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Teresa Reichlen and Ask la Cour, “Episodes”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Anton von Webern (“Symphony Op. 21”; “Five Pieces, Op. 10”; “Concerto Op. 24”; “Ricercata in Six Voices” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering), costume by Barbara Karinska, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere: May 14, 1959, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Dance, New York City, USA.
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Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour, “Monumentum pro Gesualdo”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский [“Monumentum pro Gesualdo” (1960)], New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere: November 16, 1960, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York City, USA.
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Rebecca Krohn, Janie Taylor, Ashley Bouder and Ask la Cour, “Serenade”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский [“Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48”, (1880)], costumes by Barbara Karinska, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Ballet: The Best Photographs 