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Circa

1980

Creative Team

Choreographer

Eliot Feld

Lighting Designer

Costume Designer

Running Time

22 min

Music

Composer

Paul Hindemith

Composition

Five Pieces for String Orchestra, Op. 44, no. 4, mvnts. 1-4

Trauermusik, mvnt. 4, Choral (“Für deinen Thron tret ich hiermit”)

Symphony Serena, mvnt. 3, “Colloquy”

Premiere

Date

May 29, 1980

Location

Eastman Theatre (Rochester, NY)

Company

The Feld Ballet

Premiere Cast

Credits & Notes

The program page carries this epigraph:

One-eyed Etruscans play follow the leader
Forever around the edge of a vase.
– Leiber and Stoller

Costume design executed by Louise Howard.

Circa was originally made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Media

Copyright Notice

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