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March 12-13, the Juilliard Dance Ensemble gave the New York premiere of Changes by Helen McGehee, formerly a leading dancer of the Martha Graham Company and Juilliard faculty member from 1951 to 1984. Oboist Anne Leekac companied the ensemble with a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, Op. 49 (1951). Each of the work’s six sections was devoted to a mythological figure: Pan, Phaeton, Niobe, Bacchus, Narcissus, and Arethusa. Russell Lome, Susan Salinger, and Bruce Davis were soloists, McGehee designed the costumes herself, and Carol Sealey designed the lighting. |
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| Helen McGehee’s Changes received its New York premiere in 1978. |
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