Octet (Martins)

Octet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major (1825). The premiere took place November 14^th, 2003 at the Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen; the NYCB premiere was November 23, 2004, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.

Original casts

Royal Danish Ballet

• Silja Schandorff
• Yao Wei

• Andrew Bowman
• Kristoffel Sakurai

NYCB

• Ashley Bouder
• Darci Kistler

• Benjamin Millepied
• Stephen Hanna

Reviews

• , Anna Kisselgoff, November 25^th, 2004

Articles

• , Rebecca Milzoff, August 20^th, 2006

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