Metastaseis and Pithoprakta

Metastaseis and Pithoprakta is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to two orchestral works by Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis, written 1953–54, and Pithoprakta, written 1955–56. The premiere took place 18 January 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting designed by Ronald Bates.

Casts

original

Metastaseis

and 22 women

and 6 men

Pithoprakta

Suzanne Farrell

and 7 women

Arthur Mitchell

and 5 men

revivals

Suzanne Farrell Ballet

Pithoprakta

Washington DC 2007

t.b.a.

New York City Center 2008 Fall for Dance festival

t.b.a.

Articles

Washington Post, November 16, 2007

Reviews

NY Times by Don McDonagh, January 19, 1968
NY Times by Donal Henahan, January 19, 1968
NY Times by Clive Barnes, January 22, 1968

NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, November 27, 2007
Washington Post, November 16, 2007
Ballet, November, 2007

External links

NYCB website

George Balanchine Trust website

George Balanchine Foundation website

Ballets by George Balanchine

A la Françaix A Midsummer Night's Dream Agon Allegro Brillante Apollo (stagings) Le baiser de la fée Le Bal Ballade Ballo della Regina Bayou Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Bourrée fantasque Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet Bugaku Chaconne (stagings) Le chant du rossignol Circus Polka Clarinade Concertino Concerto Barocco Coppélia Cortège Hongrois Divertimento Brillante Divertimento from “Le Baiser De La Fée” Divertimento No. 15 Don Quixote Donizetti Variations Duo Concertant Élégie L'enfant et les sortilèges Episodes (stagings) Etude for Piano The Firebird The Four Temperaments (stagings) Garland Dance Gounod Symphony Haieff Divertimento Harlequinade Hungarian Gypsy Airs Ivesiana Jeu de cartes Jewels (stagings) Kammermusik No. 2 Liebeslieder Walzer (stagings) Meditation Metamorphoses Metastaseis and Pithoprakta Monumentum pro Gesualdo (stagings) Movements for Piano and Orchestra Mozartiana Noah and the Flood The Nutcracker Orpheus Pas de Dix Pas de Trois (Glinka) Pas de Trois (Minkus) Pavane The Prodigal Son Pulcinella Ragtime I Ragtime II Raymonda Variations Requiem Canticles Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze Scherzo à la russe Scotch Symphony Serenade The Seven Deadly Sins Slaughter on Tenth Avenue La Sonnambula Sonatine La source Square Dance Stars and Stripes The Steadfast Tin Soldier Stravinsky Violin Concerto Swan Lake Sylvia Pas de Deux Symphonie Concertante Symphony in C Symphony in Three Movements Tango Tarantella (stagings) Theme and Variations Le tombeau de Couperin Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 Tzigane Union Jack La valse Valse-Fantaisie Variations Variations for Orchestra Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir Vienna Waltzes Walpurgisnacht Ballet Western Symphony (stagings) Who Cares? (stagings) Zenobia

List of ballets by George Balanchine

Iannis Xenakis

Major compositions	Six Chansons pour piano (1950) Metastaseis (1953–1954) Pithoprakta (1955–1956) Herma (1961) Nomos Alpha (1965–1966) Polytope de Montréal (1967) Kraanerg (1968) Persephassa (1969) Evryali (1973) Psappha (1975) Pléïades (1979) Komboï (1981) Rebonds (1989) Troorkh (1991)

Collaborators and influences	Le Corbusier Pierre Schaeffer Edgard Varèse

Publications	Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1992)

Related articles	CCMIX Indeterminacy in music List of compositions Musique concrète Stochastic music

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