The Catherine Wheel Suite
A Kansas City Ballet dancer in performance. Photo by Steve Wilson.
An excerpt from “Cloud Chamber” as performed by John Carrafa and Christine Uchida in The Catherine Wheel (BBC) in 1983.
Pachciarz and Schrimpf perform “Cloud Chamber.” Photo by Steve Wilson.
Kansas City Ballet dancers perform The Golden Section. Photo by Steve Wilson.
Kansas City Ballet dancers perform The Golden Section. Photo by Steve Wilson.
Premiere
Production
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Choreographer
Twyla Tharp
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Composer
David Byrne
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Lighting Designer
Jennifer Tipton
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Lighting Recreated by
Kirk Bookman
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Costume Designer
Santo Loquasto
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Staged by
Dancers
Christopher Barksdale, Stayce Camparo, Lisa Choules, Rachel Coats, Kimberly Cowen, Matthew Donnell, Aisling Hill-Connor, Deanna Hodges, Nick Kepley, Geoffrey Kropp, Amber Metiva, Logan Pachciarz, Matthew Pawlicki-Sinclair, Matthew Powell, Catherine Russell, Angelina Sansone, Stefani Schrimpf, Chelsea Teel, Keelan Whitmore, Paris Wilcox, Lateef Williams
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Number of Dancers
19
Dance Sections
I. Dinosaur
Choules, Hill-Connor, Metiva, Russell, Barksdale, Donnell, Kepley, Pawlicki-Sinclair
II. Cloud Chamber
Schrimpf, Pachciarz
III. The Golden Section
Camparo, Cowen, Hodges, Russell, Schrimpf, Teel, Barksdale, Kropp, Pachciarz, Powell, Whitmore, Wilcox, Williams
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Runtime
00:20:30
Description
The Catherine Wheel Suite is comprised of three excerpts from the full-length production of The Catherine Wheel (1981): Dinosaur, Cloud Chamber and The Golden Section (1983).
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Commissioned by
Past Performances
Kansas City Ballet
The Catherine Wheel Suite (premiere) | Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City, MO
May 11 2006 Premiere
Kansas City Ballet
The Catherine Wheel Suite | Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City, MO
May 5 2011 Repertory
- 2006
- 2011