Lincoln Center Festival celebrates ‘Jewels’

Lincoln Center Festival 2017An unprecedented cultural event will hit Lincoln Center this summer! The renowned NYC venue will welcome the Bolshoi Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and New York City Ballet (NYCB) to its David H. Koch Theater stage on July 20-23 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Balanchine’s masterpiece Jewels.

 

Jewels originally premiered at Lincoln Center and now, five decades later, it has been presented on stages worldwide by the most admired ballet companies. To celebrate this work’s legacy, Lincoln Center will present a once-in-a-lifetime presentation of Balanchine’s movement. For five performances only, the Paris Opera Ballet will embody Emeralds while NYCB and Bolshoi Ballet will present Rubies and Diamonds – alternating throughout the short season.

 

Lincoln Center Festival 2017The three prestigious companies will illuminate the different facets of Balanchine’s masterwork “like the sun catching on one of its namesake gems,” explains Lincoln Center.

 

The evening-length work traces Balanchine’s life and loves. “Emeralds, set to Fauré, evokes the mystery and grace of France. Fueled by Stravinsky, Rubies crackles with jazz-inflected wit and sass, channeling the mid-century audacity of Manhattan. And breathtaking from the moment the lights go up, Diamonds conjures the grandeur of Imperial Russia, set to Tchaikovsky’s lush Third Symphony,” describes Lincoln Center.

 

To learn more about casting or to book tickets, visit www.lincolncenter.org/lc-festival.

 

 

Photo (top): Former NYCB Principals Jenifer Ringer and Jonathan Stafford in Emeralds. Photo (left): NYCB Principal Dancer Russell Janzen in Diamonds. Photos by Paul Kolnik.