Photos: Milwaukee Ballet performing Beatus Vir.
Beatus Vir
Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: Henryk Górecki
Set Design: Steve Vallee
Costume Design: Mary Piering
Lighting Design: Brian BrunclikLength: 20 minutes
Dancers: 12
Commissioned by Milwaukee Ballet
World Premiere: April 3, 2008
“..."Beatus Vir" stuck out in my mind as the performances highlight”
- Matthew Gillespie, The Leader - Milwaukee, April 10, 2010
"Jessica Lang’s “Beatus Vir” was static and sculptural. Its opening tableau, with dancers arrayed on a staircase, was something right out of Rodin’s “Gates of Hell.”
-Milwaukee Magazine, April14, 2008
Performance History:
Milwaukee Ballet:
April 3-6, 2008 in Milwaukee, WI