Trailer
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George Balanchine

Runtime
1hr 40mins
Directed by
Mikhail Agrest
Featuring
les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra
Body

Created in 1970 by the New York City Ballet, Who cares? is a suite of dances to songs by George and Ira Gershwin - including the “classic” that gives the piece its name and I Got Rhythm - against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. 

Who cares? combines an ensemble of dancers in various formations, followed by four soloists. All come together in a playful finale in which Balanchine wanted to show the musical genius and melodic beauty of Gershwin’s compositions through classical dance. A tribute to the grandeur of Imperial Russia, Ballet Impérial was created in 1941 by the American Ballet Caravan to Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto. A work in which George Balanchine brilliantly celebrates the technical virtuosity of academic ballet in the style of Petipa - his “spiritual father” - and the great St Petersburg tradition.

Artistic team

New to the repertoire

Ballet impérial

Music / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Concerto pour piano n° 2 en sol majeur,
op. 44

Pianist / Emmanuel Strosser

Who Cares?

Musics / George Gershwin

Adaptation and orchestration / Hershy Kay

Sets / Paul Gallis

Choreographies / George Balanchine

Costumes / Xavier Ronze

Lighting design / Mark Stanley

Musical direction / Mikhail Agrest

Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Cast

Les Étoiles, les Premières Danseuses, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra

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