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Glass Pieces

Glass Pieces

(1983)

Choreography

Jerome Robbins

Music

Philip Glass
24 minutes

Robbins energizes the season’s bill with a postmodern and classical mashup. Glass Pieces drives ever forward in the electrifying rhythm of metropolitan life while navigating the shifting patterns of the intoxicating Philip Glass score. 

Ballet Credits

Choreography
Jerome Robbins

Music
Philip Glass; Rubric and Façades from Glassworks, excerpts from the opera Akhnaten

Company Premiere 
January 13, 2017

Costume Design
Ben Benson

Set Design
Jerome Robbins and Ronald Bates (production design)

Lighting Design
Ronald Bates (original production), Les Dickert (recreation)