As Time Goes By
D’Angelo, Grenier and Uchida in performance.
Brief excerpts featuring dancers of The Joffrey Ballet.
Nearhoof and Henry Berg in a later performance.
Rodriguez (in black) and members of the ensemble in performance.
Premiere
Production
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Choreographer
Twyla Tharp
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Composer
Joseph Haydn (Symphony No.45 in F-Sharp Minor 3rd & 4th movements, 1772)
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Conductor
Seymour Lipkin
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Lighting Designer
Jennifer Tipton
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Costume Designer
Chester Weinberg
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Assistant to Ms. Tharp
Dancers
Principals
Beatriz Rodriguez, Larry Grenier
Chorus
Eileen Brady, Ann Marie DeAngelo, Jan Hanniford, Nancy Ichino, Krystyna Jurkowski, Pamela Nearhoof, Christine Uchida
Adix Carman, Richard Colton, Donn Edwards, Robert Estner, Tom Fowler, Jeffrey Hughes, Burton Taylor, William Whitener
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Number of Dancers
17
Dance Sections
After the Fact (in silence):
Rodriguez
Ten Make Six:
Brady, Carman, Nearhoof, Rodriguez, Taylor, Whitener
The Four Finales:
1. Nearhoof, Whitener, Brady, Carman, Taylor, DeAngelo, Colton, Edwards, Estner, Fowler, Grenier, Hanniford, Hughes, Ichino, Jurkowski, Rodriguez, Uchida
2. Brady, DeAngelo, Colton, Edwards, Fowler, Grenier, Hanniford, Hughes, Ichino, Uchida
3. Nearhoof, DeAngelo, Colton, Edwards, Fowler, Uchida
4. Whitener, DeAngelo, Edwards, Uchida, Hanniford and the Ensemble
Then:
Grenier and Uchida with DeAngelo, Carman, Colton, Hanniford, Ichino, Rodriguez
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Runtime
00:15:25
Description
As Time Goes By was created for The Joffrey Ballet and premiered the same year as Deuce Coupe (1973). The work is Tharp’s first based solely in the ballet vocabulary. Opening with a sharp, percussive solo in silence for a ballerina en pointe, the ballet quickly builds to a sextet then into the full company in rapidly changing formations and intricately coordinated movements. As Haydn’s “Farewell Symphony” slowly diminishes instrument by instrument, the dancers, too, drain the stage leaving a solo male dancer to close the ballet.
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Commissioned by
Past Performances
The Joffrey Ballet
As Time Goes By (premiere) | The Joffrey Ballet
New York, NY
October 24 1973 Premiere
The Joffrey Ballet
Deuce Coupe II – As Time Goes By | The Joffrey Ballet
New York, NY
October 12 1975 Repertory
Twyla Tharp Dance
As Time Goes By – Catherine Wheel III (premiere) |Twyla Tharp Dance
Brooklyn, NY
February 4 1987 Dance
Paris Opera Ballet
As Time Goes By – Rules Of The Game (premiere) | Paris Opera Ballet
Paris, France
February 18 1989 Premiere
Twyla Tharp Dance
Octet – Brahms Paganini – As Time Goes By – Nine Sinatra Songs | Twyla Tharp Dance
Tanz '94
Vienna, Austria
February 24 1994 TTD Performance
- 1973
- 1975
- 1976
- 1987
- 1989
- 1994
- 2005
- 2016