''2 and 3 Part Inventions'' is a

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

made by

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's fir ...

ballet master

Jerome Robbins Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his nu ...

on students at its affiliated school, the

School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the age of six, with professional voc ...

, to Bach's

Inventions and Sinfonias The Inventions and Sinfonias, Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short Keyboard instrument, keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 Invention ...

BWV The (, ; BWV) is a Catalogues of classical compositions, catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder. The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990 and the third edition in ...

772–801, (1720–23). The premiere took place on Saturday, 4 June

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

at the Juilliard Theater,

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

. The City Ballet premiere was Thursday, 19 January 1995, and it was revived for City Ballet's 90th anniversary celebration of the choreographer, performed again by students from S.A.B.

Casts

Original SAB

* Kristina Fernandez * Eliane Munier * Riolama Lorenzo * Jennifer Chipman *

Benjamin Millepied Benjamin Millepied (; born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States since joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has als ...

* Amaury Lebrun * Alex Ketley * Seth Belliston

NYCB premiere

* Wendy Whelan * Jenifer Ringer * Samantha Allen * Miranda Weese * Ethan Stiefel * Alexander Ritter *

Christopher Wheeldon Christopher Peter Wheeldon (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Early life Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at th ...

* James Fayette

Articles

NY Times
Anna Kisselgoff, April 5, 2005
NY Times
Anna Kisselgoff, May 11, 1998

Reviews

NY Times
Anna Kisselgoff, June 6, 1994
NY Times
Anna Kisselgoff, January 21, 1995
NY Times
Jack Anderson, January 18, 2001
NY Times

Gia Kourlas Gia Kourlas is an American dance critic. Since 2019, she had written as the dance critic for ''The New York Times''. Early life and education Kourlas was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She began dancing at age 5; a few years later, she switched to f ...

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