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Tzaddik

1974

Creative Team

Choreographer

Eliot Feld

Lighting Designer

Costume Designer

Set Designer

Running Time

13 min

Music

Composer

Aaron Copland

Composition

Vitebsk

Notes

At the premiere, the music was performed live by Gladys Celeste Mercader (Piano), Dan Reed (Violin) and Ruth Glasser (Cello).

Premiere

Date

June 2, 1974

Location

Newman Theatre (New York, NY)

Company

The Feld Ballet

Premiere Cast

Credits & Notes

The program contained the following epitaph:

“There is a saying:
A Jew without learning is incomplete.”

Roles for Tzaddik included Tzaddik and Disciples.

Tzaddik was dedicated to Eliot Feld’s Grandmother Bessie.