New Jersey Ballet Presents: A Night On The Town

A Night on the Town will feature Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, his first collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, which was the inspiration for the full-length musical On the Town, and George Balanchine’s Rubies, which sends dancers racing across the stage to reflect Igor Stravinsky’s jazz-inflected piano with movements that incorporate sassy style and sharp attack, Christopher Wheeldon’s poetic and breathtaking pas de deux, This Bitter Earth and Reencounter, by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, to Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which the New York Times called “a dramatic and contemporary dance makeover”. The work combines Spanish tradition set to the score of Georges Bizet’s fiery music with a touch of Balanchine’s neoclassical influence.