The Chairman Dances (ballet)

The Chairman Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' eponymous music from 1985. The music was originally written for Adams' opera, Nixon in China, but not used in production: the scene is that in which Mao Zedong dances with his future bride, movie star Chiang Ch'ing. The premiere took place on 14 May 1988, as part of City Ballet's American Music Festival at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery and costumes by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, and lighting by Mark Stanley.

Cast

John Adams

Operas	Nixon in China The Death of Klinghoffer I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky El Niño Doctor Atomic A Flowering Tree The Gospel According to the Other Mary Girls of the Golden West

Orchestral works	Shaker Loops (orchestral) Harmonielehre The Chairman Dances Tromba Lontana Short Ride in a Fast Machine Slonimsky's Earbox Lollapalooza Naive and Sentimental Music Guide to Strange Places My Father Knew Charles Ives City Noir

Concertante	The Wound-Dresser Violin Concerto Century Rolls The Dharma at Big Sur Absolute Jest Saxophone Concerto Scheherazade.2

Chamber music	Shaker Loops (string septet) Chamber Symphony John's Book of Alleged Dances Road Movies Gnarly Buttons

Other ensemble works	American Standard, including "Christian Zeal and Activity" Grand Pianola Music

Choral music	Harmonium Choruses from The Death of Klinghoffer On the Transmigration of Souls

Piano works	Phrygian Gates China Gates Hallelujah Junction American Berserk

Film score	I Am Love

Related articles	Minimal music

Category:Compositions by John Coolidge Adams

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