Quartet
Bustamante, Graffin, Gregory and Harvey in performance. Photo by Martha Swope.
Gregory, Harvey, Bustamante and Graffin in performance.
Bustamante, Gregory, Graffin and Harvey perform. Photo by Martha Swope.
Gregory and Harvey in performance. Photo by Martha Swope.
Premiere
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Date
4 February 1989
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Company
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Location
Miami, FL
Production
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Choreographer
Twyla Tharp
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Composer
Terry Riley (G Song, 1980)
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Live Music by
Ronald Oakland (first violin), Thomas Moore (second violin), Pamela McConnell (viola), Eugene Eicher (cello)
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Lighting Designer
Jennifer Tipton
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Costume Designer
Santo Loquasto
Dancers
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Number of Dancers
4
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Runtime
00:11:03
Description
Quartet is a rigorously formal chamber ballet. The minimalist score and unisex costumes create a neutral atmosphere in which the four dancers move with extreme precision. The choreography is grounded in a classical vocabulary “with Twyla’s unusual way of switching weight,” describes principal ballerina Cynthia Gregory. The geometric formality is punctuated with unexpected entrances, exits and changes in direction. “When you want to go one way, she has you go the other. The whole torque of it is unique.”
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Commissioned by
Past Performances
American Ballet Theatre
The Fugue – Quartet (premiere) | American Ballet Theatre
Miami, FL
February 4 1989 Premiere
American Ballet Theatre
Bums Rush – Quartet – The Fugue – In The Upper Room | American Ballet Theatre
Auditorium Theater
Chicago, IL
February 18 1989 Repertory
American Ballet Theatre
Quartet – Everlast (premiere) – In The Upper Room | American Ballet Theatre
San Francisco, CA
March 2 1989 Premiere
American Ballet Theatre
In The Upper Room – Bum's Rush – Quartet – Everlast | American Ballet Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
March 9 1989 Repertory
American Ballet Theatre
Everlast – Quartet – Bum's Rush | American Ballet Theatre
New York, NY
May 20 1989 Repertory
- 1989