Body, Soul & Gershwin

Houston Ballet presents Body, Soul & Gershwin, September 9-19 at the Wortham Theater. Set to Maurice Ravel's Concerto for Piano in G major, Stanton Welch's Tu Tu is a large ensemble classical work in three movements featuring 22 dancers, outfitted in brilliantly colored tutus and briefs, in a humorous, sexy romp. Inspired by a painting by Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and English composer Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem with its images of the sea engulfing the land, Jiří Kylián's Forgotten Land suggests the rising waves of a grey sea, the ebb and flow of life, and themes of metamorphosis central to human existence. http://www.houstonballet.org