Lifecasting (ballet)
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Lifecasting is a ballet made by Douglas Lee on New York City Ballet
to the third movement of Ryoji Ikeda
's Opus 1 (2000–2001) and Steve Reich
's Triple Quartet
(1998). The premiere took place on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
. Lee has previously made dances for City Ballet’s New York City Ballet#Choreographic Institute. Costumes were designed by Ines Alda and lighting by Mark Stanley.
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
to the third movement of Ryoji Ikeda
Ryoji Ikeda
Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Paris. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing...
's Opus 1 (2000–2001) and Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
's Triple Quartet
Triple Quartet
Triple Quartet is a piece written by Steve Reich in 1998. It was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Kronos Quartet, and was premiered by them on May 22, 1999 in the Kennedy Center, Washington DC....
(1998). The premiere took place on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
. Lee has previously made dances for City Ballet’s New York City Ballet#Choreographic Institute. Costumes were designed by Ines Alda and lighting by Mark Stanley.
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- Ashley Bouder
- Sterling Hyltin
- Maria KowroskiMaria KowroskiMaria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
- Kaitlyn Gilliland
- Georgina Pazcoguin
- Antonio Carmena
- Robert Fairchild
- Craig Hall
- Amar RamasarAmar RamasarAmar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...
- Adrian Danchig-Waring
- Christian Tworzyanski
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- Ashley Bouder
- Sterling Hyltin
- Maria KowroskiMaria KowroskiMaria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
- Kaitlyn Gilliland
- Georgina Pazcoguin
- Antonio Carmena
- Robert Fairchild
- Sean Suozzi
- Amar RamasarAmar RamasarAmar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...
- Adrian Danchig-Waring
- Christian Tworzyanski