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282. À LA FRANÇAIX

Music: By Jean Françaix (Serenade for Small Orchestra, 1934).

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

Production: Scenery by Raoul Dufy. Lighting by Jean Rosenthal.

Premiere: September 11, 1951, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Leon Barzin.

Cast: Janet Reed, Maria Tallchief, André Eglevsky; Frank Hobi, Roy Tobias.

Note: A tennis-playing athlete flirts with a pretty girl until a ballerina dressed as a winged sylph appears and fascinates him; in the end the sylph, stripping down to a bathing suit, reveals herself to be an athlete too.

Television: hide...

1953

(NBC, Kate Smith Hour)

Stagings: hide...

1953 American Festival Ballet (Idaho)

1953 San Franciso Ballet

1958 Eglevsky Ballet Company

1964 Eglevsky Ballet Company (revival)

1965 San Diego Ballet

1982 Kansas City Ballet

1983 Richmond Ballet, the State Ballet of Virginia

1985 Kansas City Ballet

1987 Stamford City Ballet

1995 Diablo Ballet

2004 New York Theatre Ballet

2012 Carolina Ballet

2013 Carolina Ballet