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At Midnight

1967

Creative Team

Choreographer

Eliot Feld

Lighting Designer

Costume Designer

Set Designer

Running Time

22 min

Music

Composer

Gustav Mahler

Composition

“Ich atmet einen linden Duft,” “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder,” “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,” and “Um Mitternacht” from Rückert-Lieder

Credits & Notes

The program page carries this epigraph:

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.  Nature does not often say “See!” to her poor creature when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply “Here!” to a body’s cry of “Where?” till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game.

                                                                                    -Thomas Hardy

Later productions had lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes.

At Midnight has also been in repertory at: American Ballet Company, Feld Ballets/NY, Ballet Tech, and the Royal Swedish Ballet.

At Midnight was originally made possible by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Media

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