THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28
Fresh off a six-week Spanish tour, the Boston Ballet kicks off its 2007-2008 season with a double bill of works: Serenade, choreographed by George Balanchine with music by Tchaikovsky, and Sorella Englund's contemporary staging of choreographer August Bournonville's La Sylphide. Serenade, which has the distinction of being the first ballet Balanchine choreographed in the US, grew out of classes he was teaching at the School of American Ballet in the early 1930s. La Sylphide, on the other hand, is more traditional: considered the "first great Romantic ballet," it follows a man's wedding-day desertion of his fiancée for the temptations of a sylph. Englund's La Sylphide, which premiered in 2005, is a take on Bournonville's 1836 adaptation of the ballet. Performances are held at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre (270 Tremont Street, Boston, 617.482.9393); tickets are $25 to $110 and can be purchased at www.telecharge.com or 800.447.7400.
[Written by Heather Bouzan and Melissa Cronin]
