Balanchine, George. (1904–1983). Original Signed Costas Photograph. A beautiful original photograph of the great choreographer, shown demonstrating in rehearsal to dancers Ib Anderson and Darci Kistler in preparation for the 1978 Tchaikovsky Festival of the New York City Ballet. They are shown rehearsing Balanchine's ballet "Adagio Lamentoso," his treatment of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" or Sixth Symphony. The black and white photograph is elegantly matted and signed on the mount by the photographer, Costas, regarded as one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th Century. 28 X 35.5 cm. overall.
The ballet offers a "cataclysmic image, daring the public to accept the kind of emotions most people prefer to see hidden. It is Tchaikovsky's funeral service for himself, not only visualized but also extended into a more universal cry of anguish -a lament for man's unhappy life on earth and his search for eternal peace in some other world... It is also totally in line with other Balanchine ballets to Tchaikovsky that center on the theme of ''fate.'' And it is, in typical Balanchine fashion, a work that is at one with its music." (Anna Kisselgoff, NY Times, 1981)
The ballet offers a "cataclysmic image, daring the public to accept the kind of emotions most people prefer to see hidden. It is Tchaikovsky's funeral service for himself, not only visualized but also extended into a more universal cry of anguish -a lament for man's unhappy life on earth and his search for eternal peace in some other world... It is also totally in line with other Balanchine ballets to Tchaikovsky that center on the theme of ''fate.'' And it is, in typical Balanchine fashion, a work that is at one with its music." (Anna Kisselgoff, NY Times, 1981)
Balanchine, George. (1904–1983). Original Signed Costas Photograph. A beautiful original photograph of the great choreographer, shown demonstrating in rehearsal to dancers Ib Anderson and Darci Kistler in preparation for the 1978 Tchaikovsky Festival of the New York City Ballet. They are shown rehearsing Balanchine's ballet "Adagio Lamentoso," his treatment of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" or Sixth Symphony. The black and white photograph is elegantly matted and signed on the mount by the photographer, Costas, regarded as one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th Century. 28 X 35.5 cm. overall.
The ballet offers a "cataclysmic image, daring the public to accept the kind of emotions most people prefer to see hidden. It is Tchaikovsky's funeral service for himself, not only visualized but also extended into a more universal cry of anguish -a lament for man's unhappy life on earth and his search for eternal peace in some other world... It is also totally in line with other Balanchine ballets to Tchaikovsky that center on the theme of ''fate.'' And it is, in typical Balanchine fashion, a work that is at one with its music." (Anna Kisselgoff, NY Times, 1981)
The ballet offers a "cataclysmic image, daring the public to accept the kind of emotions most people prefer to see hidden. It is Tchaikovsky's funeral service for himself, not only visualized but also extended into a more universal cry of anguish -a lament for man's unhappy life on earth and his search for eternal peace in some other world... It is also totally in line with other Balanchine ballets to Tchaikovsky that center on the theme of ''fate.'' And it is, in typical Balanchine fashion, a work that is at one with its music." (Anna Kisselgoff, NY Times, 1981)