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Opening Night Miniseries Part 2: Fancy Free
Kinetic Conversations with the Fort Wayne Ballet
English - October 09, 2023 06:37 - 20 minutes - 46.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Education ballet dance fort wayne ballet choreography choreographer gerald arpino joffery ballet american ballet theatre nutcracker swan lake Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Opening Night Miniseries Part 1: Italian Suite
Fort Wayne Ballet is getting ready to stage it's first big show of the 2023-24 season, entitled Opening Night!. In this three part series, Kinetic Conversations looks at each of the three ballets the company will be perform in the show - each with a nod to New York City.
In part two of our series, Jim interviews Robert LaFosse, repetiteur for Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free. They discuss the history of the piece and Robbins' first collaboration with Leonard Bernstein in a partnership that would eventually lead to the making of West Side Story.