About the work
The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) is a ballet by Jerome Robbins, created for New York City Ballet, set to Chopin's:
The premiere took place at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, on 6 March 1956, with décor by Saul Steinberg, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting by Ronald Bates. Robbins choreographed three subsequent ballets to Chopin's music: Dances at a Gathering (1969), In the Night (1970), and Other Dances (1976).
In 2008 in The New York Times, Alastair Macaulay called The Concert "the most sheerly funny of all ballets.... a true classic, full of jokes that you find yourself quoting in everyday life."
More ballets by the composer
All ballets by Frédéric Chopin (8) →
Other works by the same choreographer
Requiem Canticles
The Goldberg Variations
1971
Four Bagatelles
1974
Glass Pieces
1983
A Suite of Dances
1994
Moves
1959
Dybbuk
Brahms/Handel
1984
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