Bugaku (ballet)
Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi, commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on 30 March 1963 at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by Karinska, and lighting by Ronald Bates. NYCB had toured Japan in 1958 and the Gagaku Company of the Imperial Household toured the US the following year.
Bugaku is the dance component of gagaku.
Original cast
Reviews
- by Allen Hughes, August 30, 1963
- by Clive Barnes, November 20, 1976
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- by Alastair Macaulay, January 19, 2008
- in the New York Sun by Joel Lobenthal, June 1, 2007
- by Deborah Jowitt in the Village Voice, February 5, 2008
Articles
- by Allen Hughes, March 22, 1963
- by Anna Kisselgoff, April 5, 1987