SHORTS

FEATURING A WORLD PREMIERE BALLET WITH MUSIC BY THE FLAMING LIPS

Civic Center Music Hall

Enjoy three short ballets all in one production. Shorts has something for everyone including:

• Otra Vez, an Afro-Cuban work by Stephanie Martinez
• Divertimento No. 15, a neoclassical work by George Balanchine
• A World Premiere by Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye featuring the music of Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips

This world-premiere work, created by Oklahoma City Ballet Artistic Director Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye, will be the first time a professional ballet company has utilized music by The Flaming Lips.

“As a longtime fan of The Flaming Lips, this is like revisiting my childhood, marrying two things I love: rock music and dance. I want to juxtapose typical ballet stereotypes and rock and roll stereotypes and hopefully congeal them in a way that changes how one thinks of OKC Ballet,” said Artistic Director Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye.

Every element of The Flaming Lips ballet will be created in Oklahoma City, from sets and costumes to music and choreography, and all performed by Oklahoma City Ballet’s professional dancers.

Do not wait to get tickets to this groundbreaking collaboration!