Craig Hall and Janie Taylor
30 minutes
October 5, 2012
New York City Ballet
March 18, 2016
Principal support for the 2016 Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere of Justin Peck’s Year of the Rabbit was provided by Marcella McCaffray and Bob Benson, with additional support from Gilla Kaplan, H. David Kaplan, and Jodi Wong.
Justin Peck’s acclaimed Year of the Rabbit is a collaboration with American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and is set to Stevens’ Enjoy Your Rabbit, an electronica album and song cycle based on the Chinese zodiac. The ballet features a new orchestration of the score by Michael Atkinson that was created specifically for the ballet. Year of the Rabbit is an elaboration of Peck’s Tales of a Chinese Zodiac, which was created in 2010 for the New York Choreographic Institute.
Notes courtesy of New York City Ballet.