A two-part ballet evening

Ein Amerikaner in Paris
‘Farewell in Paris’
ballet by Jeroen Verbruggen, music by George Gershwin and Aaron Copland (‘Billy the Kid Suite’)  

Le Sacre du Printemps 
ballet by Marco Goecke, music by Igor Stravinsky  

What links Gershwin and Stravinsky is a city: Paris inspired one of them in 1926 to compose the famous tone poem ‘An American in Paris’. In 1913, the other staged the scandal-ridden world premiere of his ballet music ‘Le Sacre du printemps’ there.