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.)
Nina Tonoli and Timothy van Poucke, “The Four Temperaments” (“Melancholic”, “Sanguinic”, “Phlegmatic” and “Choleric”), choreo by George Balanchine based on the proto psychological theory of “The Four Temperaments”, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), set and costume by Kurt Seligmann, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Lindsi Dec, “The Four Temperaments” (“Melancholic”, “Sanguinic”, “Phlegmatic” and “Choleric”), choreography by George Balanchine based on the proto psychological theory of “The Four Temperaments”, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), set and costume by Kurt Seligmann, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Ashley Bouder as “Choleric”, Robert Fairchild and Adrian Danchig Waring, “The Four Temperaments” (“Melancholic”, “Sanguinic”, “Phlegmatic” and “Choleric”), choreography by George Balanchine based on the proto psychological theory of “The Four Temperaments”, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), set and costume by Kurt Seligmann, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, USA.
Premiere: November 20, 1946, Ballet Society, Central High School of Needle Trades, New York City, USA.
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Kristina Lind (current principal at Bayerisches Staatsballett) and Daniel Deivison Oliveira, “The Four Temperaments”, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), costume and set by Kurt Seligmann, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Zenaida Yanowsky, “The Four Temperaments”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), costume and set by Kurt Seligmann, The Royal Ballet, London, England.
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Olivia Boisson and Lars Nelson, “The Four Temperaments”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), costume and set by Kurt Seligmann, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere: November 20, 1946, Ballet Society, Central High School of Needle Trades, New York City, USA.
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Christine Rocas and Dylan Gutiérrez, “Beyond the Shore” choreography by Nicolas Blanc and music by Mason Bates from “Modern Masters” (“The Four Temperaments” choreography by George Balanchine and music by Paul Hindemith, “Body of Your Dreams” choreography by Myles Thatcher and music by Jacob ter Veldhuis, “Beyond the Shore”, “Glass Pieces” choreography by Jerome Robbins and music by Philip Glass), The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, Illinois
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Ashley Bouder and Jared Angle, “The Four Temperaments” choreography by George Balanchine, music by Paul Hindemith, (Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano), New York City Ballet (2011)
Ashley Laracey and Adrian Danchig-Waring, “The Four Temperaments”, choreography by George Balanchine, music: “The Four Temperaments: Theme with Four Variations for String Orchestra and Piano” by Paul Hindemith, costume by Kurt Seligmann, New York City Ballet
Zenaida Yanowsk, Akane Takada, Federico Bonelli, Itziar Mendizabal, Valeri Hristov, Lara Turk, Nathalie Harrison, Edward Watson, Annette Buvoli, Yasmine Nagdhi, Steven McRae, Emma Maguireand and Tara-Brigitte Bhavnani, “The Four Temperaments” by George Balanchine, The Royal Ballet
Ballet: The Best Photographs 