La Valse Lights

When I was learning my craft (remember Balanchine brought me to NYC at 19 as a choreographer first), he wanted me to watch every performance. “Watch and learn,” he said. He also sat with me lighting my 8 ballets for the company, so I learned firsthand how crucial lighting was to him. In LA VALSE this Is tremendously important. Here are two sections where the lights are everything. The first is the beginning of the “La Valse” section, and the second is after the heroine dies, and at first we’re back in the ballroom, but suddenly everything turns into a nightmare. I conferred with our company’s resident lighting designer, Ronnie Bates, how to achieve these effects, and this is how it looked with the Mariinsky Ballet when I staged it for them in 2004.

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Very interesting....,It seems a contemporary Ballet...A new way to explore the infinite worlds of vision of the Art. 🤔😌😊🤗👍🏼 Bravo!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ❤

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One of my favorite pieces of music. The lighting gives an interesting quality to the stage.

[@candidacarino669]

It's brilliant @ John Clifford, your 'Stage Lighting' nicely illuminated the amazing performance of the 'corps de ballet' members and the set; and we can see all what we mean to see onstage. Thank you for sharing.