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A black and white photo of dancers Judith Jamison and Clive Thompson in mid-performance. Judith Jamison is wearing a flowing dress and is bent forward, extending one arm downward and the other upward. Clive Thompson is next to her, dressed in a fitted costume, also bent forward with one arm extended downward and the other upward. The background is plain and light-colored.

Repertory

Carmina Burana

COMPANIES

CHOREOGRAPHER

COMPANY PREMIERE

New York City Center, 1973

WORLD PREMIERE

New York City Opera, 1959

ORIGINAL COSTUMES

Ruth Morley

COSTUMES

Reconstruction by Betty Williams and Candace Chase, supervised by Barbara Forbes

ORIGINAL LIGHTING

Thomas Skelton

LIGHTING

Reconstruction by Tony Tucci

MUSIC AND LATIN TEXT

Carl Orff

STAGING AND SUPERVISION

Offer Zaks and Maria Barrios

RUN TIME

56 Minutes

Carmina Burana is based on a collection of 13th century songs and poems composed by minstrels and monks who had freed themselves from monastic discipline. The ballet is an abstract landscape of movement, bemoaning and celebrating the ever-changing fate of man.