Monumentum Pro Gesualdo was choreographed by Balanchine in 1960 for Diana Adams and Conrad Ludlow.
“Walking is the key movement, clear-cut patterns the motif, and courtly demeanor the tone. In the most robust sequences, the ballerina is thrown three times into the up stretched arms of other partners, but even here it is the suspended images of her full arabesque in flight, rather than the force of her trajectory, that leaves the impression.”
—Nancy Reynolds in Repertory in Review: 40 Years of the New York City Ballet
Diana Adams (Conrad Ludlow behind her lifting).
Photos by Fred Fehl, 1961.
Harry Ransom Center
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