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WIEN*
Choreography: Pascal Rioult
Music: Maurice Ravel, La Valse
Lighting: David Finley
Costumes: Russ Vogler
| Brian Flynn |
Robert Robinson |
| Penelope Gonzalez |
Anastasia Soroczynski |
| Michael Spencer Phillips |
Marianna Tsartolia |
Faithful to Ravel's intentions, Wien is a fantastic and fatal swirling of tragic dimensions. The Viennese waltz, the very image of social refinement, becomes the symbol of a disintegrating society taken into a whirlpool of violence and humiliation. The piece has the poisoned atmosphere of despair and fatalism. It is the trail of failed humanity. It is a premonition of triumphant evil.
First Performed January 13, 1995 - Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, New York
*Wien (Vienna) is the original title of the musical score.
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