Brooklyn Ballet’s Decade of Dance
Brooklyn Ballet, founded by Lynn Parkerson 10 years ago and now based in Downtown Brooklyn, is celebrating its first decade by creating and performing several special events in the coming months.
Brooklyn Ballet’s 2012 season, called “Revolutionaries and Romantics,” will include a new creation by Artistic Director Parkerson, called “Forest Fairies and Peasant Revolt,” which highlights the famed Isadora Duncan — considered by many as the creator of modern dance — and her profound impact on classical ballet. The piece brings together variations from Michel Fokine’s “Les Sylphides” and Duncan’s “Chopin Dances.”
Additional dances include Duncan’s extraordinary and heroic “Revolutionary Etude,” a solo performed by Lynn Parkerson; Parkerson’s “Dolls, Dolls, Dolls,” which is a hip-hop “Nutcracker”; and the world premiere of a mixed-movement, multi-choreographed work-in-progress to Stravinsky titled “Spiders, Cooks and Mood Swings.”
The 2012 season is very personal to Parkerson. Not only does it mark a significant anniversary, but also, as she says, “‘Les Sylphides’ was the first ballet I ever saw and it was pure magic. And this new program encapsulates everything I love about working with dancers from other genres to energize the ballet form.