Tony Award-winning choreographer Jerome Robbins’ ballet ‘The Concert’ is set to be performed by a Japanese ballet company for the first time this September. The comedic ballet was choreographed in 1956 to Chopin's piano works as a parody of classical music concerts. Though it has a short duration of roughly half an hour, movements like the famous ‘Mistake Waltz’ and the farcical characters that appear have made this one of the most iconic ballets of all time.
This production will be performed by the Tokyo-based Star Dancers Ballet company for two nights only, on September 23 and September 24, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. In addition to ‘The Concert’, the company will also perform Robbins' pas de deux 'Faun Afternoon' and George Balanchine's 24-minute ballet 'Scotch Symphony' in the first two acts of the show. You can buy your tickets here.