BEHIND THE BALLET - with Elizabeth Kaye | WOOLF WORKS

BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, ABT's Dance Historian
This installment of our 2024 Summer season BEHIND THE BALLETS unearths the contemporary masterpiece that is Wayne McGregor's WOOLF WORKS. Kaye's informative lecture provides us with a rich understanding of the choreographer Wayne McGregor's history, and an abstract overview of the ballet's content. This talk will leave you with much to think about and even more to see on stage.
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, a series of talks with ABT's Dance Historian, renowned ballet lecturer, and New York Times #1 best-selling author. Each BEHIND THE BALLET provides a deep dive into the 2024 Summer season ballets: ONEGIN, Wayne McGregor's WOOLF WORKS, SWAN LAKE, ROMEO AND JULIET, and LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE.
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[@steverivera1596]

I saw this ballet in London a few years ago and was left in tears at the sheer beauty. I am beyond excited to experience it again in New York.

[@webosc]

I can't wait to see this amazing ballet next month. Congrats ABT and Ms. Kaye for creating BEHIND THE BALLET series. Having these deep dives make me appreciate more these amazing performances...Another reason for why I recently became a member!

[@peterquennellnyc]

Sensational. Dont miss, espec anyone under 30, its YOUR music and concerns here. There's nothing like the second act, dancing hypnotic, laser formations flowing out over the audience, and deep, deep notes that shake the entire theater. ABT might well have had 10 of these videos up weeks ago, please no more of the last-minute stuff!

[@arosero]

Thank you for sharing so much context to the creation of this ballet work. I can't wait to see and FEEL it in my heart and mind!

[@pwk1479]

This is beautifully done! I wish it had been available when I saw Woolf Works with ABT at the Segerstrom Center recently. This makes me want to see the ballet again. Thank you!

[@avi.angeles]

Really deeply, I don’t enough word for describe this marvelous emotions, thank you, really thank for share with us ❤

[@armsteadcapital]

Excellent! Bravo! The only suggestion I would make is show more dance. 90% dance. 100% narration.

[@fowlermartin7592]

Ms Kaye's commentary is, as always, exceptionally well done and I wish I could be in NYC to see the ballet (and especially after having just seen the "The Hours" at the Metropolitan Opera.) Virginia, one of my very favorite authors, is certainly now having a fresh 15 minutes of fame. But the ballet's depiction of Clarissa interacting personally with Septimus Smith seems very wrong and not at all what Woolf had in mind. "Artistic license," I suppose, given the apparent need for a dramatic pas de deux.

[@peterquennellnyc]

It may help some to have seen The Hours first. Pure accident that the sound is not unlike Philip Glass's?

[@MichaelSeverance-u4k]

I just saw this ABT in NY at the Met. I was excited about it. I love the works of Virginia Woolf.I love the Max Richter score. It was lovely and exciting in the 2nd Orlando act. It was lovely but it relied on V. Woolf tropes of suicide to make it moving in the third Act--in fact that is all there was. The Waves is not about Virginia's suicide, it is the story of the Life of six people--to tell the story of Life you must include Death--but in The Waves it is not Virginia"s Death, It is Bernard's that ends the novel. Please stop using this as an excuse for not facing Life. Thank you,