Historic examples are Picasso and Cocteau working with Dagliev to create modern interpretations of ballet and other performance work and Kandinsky and Mondrian using music directly as prime influence for their paintings through titles or the syncopation of the work on canvas.
The artistic director and choreographer of the American Contemporary Ballet, Jones is known for digging through books and scores in searches for fresh interpretations of ballets.
Ellington's interpretation of the ballet's music is quoted in full.
The Balanchine evening opened with Serenade, the choreographer's poignant interpretation of classical ballet for the machine age.
It is much anticipated, especially after his wildly successful interpretation of the ballet classic, Swan Lake.
A picture caption on Tuesday with a Critic's Notebook article about different interpretations of the ballet "Swan Lake" misidentified the role David Hallberg was shown performing in an American Ballet Theater production.
Alonso has danced the part of Juliet in both American and Cuban interpretations of the ballet, and the play is well known to Cubans not only because it has been performed in Cuba as both a play and a ballet, but also because it is regularly taught in tenth-grade Cuban classrooms.
Kaye saw herself as a very American ballet dancer, compelled to question the traditions, interpretations, and movement of ballet.
The evening began with "The Four Temperaments," in an eloquent if debatable interpretation of the 1946 ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a commissioned score by Paul Hindemith.
His comeback work was mischievously titled Before and After: The Fall and it was followed, beginning in 2005, by a creative residency at the Barbican, during which he has created three interpretations of Stravinsky ballets and a piece for the 2009 Edinburgh festival called Thank You, Man, for which Bowie was the inspiration.
Among the one-act pieces the Royal is dancing these days is Ashton's interpretation of another famous French ballet: Ravel's "Daphnis and Chlo DANCE REVIEW.
