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A Garden

A Garden

A Garden

A Garden

Premiere

San Francisco Ballet - War Memorial Opera House

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Choreography Mark Morris
Music Richard Strauss - Tanzsuite for Orchesta – after keyboard pieces by Francois Couperin
Lighting Design Michael Chybowski
Instrumentation orchestra
Number of Dancers 12
Runtime 24 minutes

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A Garden has also been performed by Ballet British Columbia and Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Press Quotes

  • "...the most memorable things about A Garden are its loveliness and sincerity, its joyful musicality and its deep humanism."
    Jose Mercury News
  • "This is dance at its most eloquent, a pastoral poem written in bodies and space."
    The Guardian Unlimited