The San Francisco Ballet in Balanchine's Four Temperaments, D.C. Premieres
The Kennedy Center - Opera House (Washington, DC)
America's oldest professional ballet company, the San Francisco Ballet is celebrating its landmark 75th season. They'll present a mixed repertory program that includes two ballets commissioned for the company's spring 2008 New Works Festival: the D.C. premieres of Mark Morris's Joyride and Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour. Also on the program is George Balanchine's classic work The Four Temperaments.
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America's oldest professional ballet company, the San Francisco Ballet is celebrating its landmark 75th season. They'll present a mixed repertory program that includes two ballets commissioned for the company's spring 2008 New Works Festival: the D.C. premieres of Mark Morris's Joyride and Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour. Also on the program is George Balanchine's classic work The Four Temperaments.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, located on 17 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is America's living memorial to President Kennedy as well as the nation's busiest arts facility, presenting more than 2,000 performances each year. The Center is home to seven theaters: the Concert Hall, the Opera House, the Eisenhower Theater, the Family Theater, the Terrace Theater, the Theater Lab, and the Terrace Gallery. In addition, as part of the Kennedy Center's Performing Arts for Everyone outreach program, free performances take place each evening at 6 p.m. on the Millennium Stage. In addition to offering annual series of the National Symphony Orchestra, theater, ballet, dance, chamber music, jazz, and performances for young audiences, the Kennedy Center presents festivals celebrating the arts and culture of countries and regions around the world. Recent festivals include African Odyssey, AmericArtes, Festival of China, and JAPAN: culture + hyperculture.