Word: agonizing
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...cultivated - and glorified in so many of his works. Consider the prevalence today of ballets stripped of fairy-tale plots and elaborate costumes and sets - no story, just a focus on the music and movement. That?s the aesthetic that Balanchine championed in pioneering works like Concerto Barocco (1941), Agon (1957) and Jewels (1967); he taught viewers to find drama solely in the beguiling patterns of his dancers massing, breaking apart, recombining, forming symmetries, tracing variations...
...those who regard George Balanchine as the choreographer of the century--any century--Washington will be the place to be in September. The Kennedy Center's Balanchine Celebration features such masterpieces as Agon, Divertimento No. 15 and The Four Temperaments, performed by the Miami City, Pennsylvania, San Francisco and Joffrey ballet troupes. It also marks the official debut of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet Company (Sept...