Bayou (ballet)

Bayou (ballet)

"Bayou" is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson's "Acadian Songs and Dances" (1947). The premiere took place February 21, 1952, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York.

Original Cast

*Francisco Moncion
*Doris Breckenridge
*Melissa Hayden
*Hugh Laing
*Diana Adams
*Herbert Bliss

External links

* [http://www.nycballet.com NYCB website]

* [http://www.balanchine.com George Balanchine Trust website]

* [http://www.balanchine.org George Balanchine Foundation website]

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E3DE113DF93BA15751C0A96F958260 NY Times article by Joseph Carman, February 28, 1999]

* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0612FF3B58107A93C0AB1789D85F468585F9 NY Times review by John Martin, February 22, 1952]


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