Houston Ballet presents a world premiere at the Summer & Smoke mixed rep program.
in a co-production with American Ballet Theatre. It's part of its final offering of the 2022-23 season — a mixed rep program carrying the similar title ofmakes as reappearance and George Balanchine'scompletes the program. Both are set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach but while Welch'sfeatures seven men and one woman, Balanchine's work has a corps of women with only one male dancer.
"She has grown up living next door to John Buchanan who's the complete opposite in personality. He’s playful; he's teasing. When you see him as an adult he is a bit of a gambler; he stays up late partying. They live completely different lives but have this attraction towards each other. And through that relationship they try to convince the other that these things are more important in your life whether it's spirituality or whether it's sensuality .
O'Connell and she have six pas de deux within the hour ballet."It was very important to [Marston] that each time we meet our relationship is building and changing. That the arc of the story is clear because that's such an important part of her process." And just as Marston was careful to delineate characteristics of the leading dancers, Daugherty did the same with his music. Lead dancers are accompanied by specific instruments, for instance: Alma is a flute, John a clarinet. The angel is a harp.
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