Episode 64: New Combinations: Silas Farley and David K. Israel

Host and Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan is back with another New Combinations episode of City Ballet The Podcast. This week she's joined by choreographer, former NYCB dancer, and current Dean of the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute Silas Farley and composer David K. Israel, who are creating a new work for this spring's 50th anniversary Stravinsky Festival. Farley and Israel describe the gift exchange between George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky that provides the inspiration for their work and movingly encapsulates the depth and generative power of the two titans' artistic partnership—a model for their own collaboration today, aesthetically and spiritually. (38:22)

Edited by Emilie Silvestri

Music: "Sisyphus" by Andrew Wegman Bird Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. as agent for Muffet Music Co