The Trocks forgo the story in favor of Spanish styling and the classical variations that come with a ballet happy ending.
Many choreographers are happy to create ballets for the Studio Company, even for relatively low fees.
Perhaps optimistically, we used the so-called "happy" ending of the ballet.
But Balanchine gives his Romantic ballet a happy ending, and Mr. Martins danced the final solo with verve.
"I knew that Prokofiev had conceived a happy ending for the ballet," Mr. Morrison said, "but I did not know that the piano music existed intact, with the orchestration either written in or modeled elsewhere in the score.
In a world where other art forms -- movies, the theater -- may not be as good as they once were, I'm happy to say that ballet is even better".
Unlike Graham, Balanchine was happy to license his ballets while he was still alive.
You could fret about the political and historical incorrectness of this, but then you might as well agonize why other ballets feature happy peasants.
The choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has the trick of making New York City Ballet's audience happy.
Nacho Duato's first months at the Berlin State Ballet were less happy.
