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Works available for immediate licensing and staging
 

 

     
After Eden 1966 Hoiby   2 Dancers
Carmina Burana 1959 Orff   16 Dancers: (4 Leads / 6 Corps Couples)
Othello 1976 Dvorak   3 Dancers: (1 Woman / 2 Men)
Portrait of Billie 1960 B.Holiday   2 Dancers
         
For future production:

According to Eve
Catulli Carmina
Dawns and Dusks
A Season in Hell
Sebastian
      Carmina Burana by John Butler
       
Year Ballet Music Place
       
1953 Masque of the Wild Man Glanville-Hicks John Butler Dance Theatre
      Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
      Lee, MA
       
  Malocchio  Provenzano John Butler Dance Theatre
      American Dance Festival
      New London, CT
       
1954 The Brass World Jolivet John Butler Dance Theatre
      Brooklyn, NY
       
  Three Promenades with the Lord American Folk John Butler Dance Theatre
      Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
      Lee, MA
       
  The Adventure Barber John Butler Dance Festival
      CBS Television
       
1955 Frontier Ballad American Folk John Butler Dance Theatre
      Brooklyn, NY
       
  The Haunted World Jolivet John Butler Dance Theatre
  (revision of The Brass World)   Brooklyn, NY
       
  Clowns and Angels Bowles John Butler Dance Theatre
      Nervi Dance Festival, Genoa
       
  Dances in Salome Bernstein John Butler Dance Theatre
  (Play by Oscar Wilde)   Omnibus - CBS Television
       
1956 Democratic Vistas Scott John Butler Dance Theatre
      Camera Three - CBS Television
       
  The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore Menotti Staged for New York City Ballet
  (under auspices of Lib.of Congress)   Washington, DC
       
1957 Seven Faces of Love Kenton Ballet Theatre Workshop
      New York, NY
       
1958 The Glory Folk American Folk John Butler Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  Triad Glanville-Hicks Tailleferre Ellington John Butler Dance Theatre Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  The Unquiet Graves Hollingsworth John Butler Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  The Letter and the Three Jazz Ar.Shirley Geoffrey Holder and Company
      New York, NY
       
  Creation and Fall   John Butler Dance Theatre
      Look Up and Live - Television
       
1959 Carmina Burana Orff New York City Opera - NY, NY
       
  In the Beginning Barber New York City Opera - NY, NY
       
  The Sybil Surinach American Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  The Five Senses Folk Songs American Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  Brief Encounter Bowles Amercan Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  Amusement Park Bowles American Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
  Album Leaves   John Butler Dance Theatre
      Spoleto Festival, Italy
       
1960 Turning Point Evans, Lewis, Hopkins Idlewild Festival of the Arts, CA
       
  Portrait of Billie B.Holiday Songs Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Lee, MA
       
  Saul and the Witch of Endor Granville-Hicks Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
  David and Bathsheba Surinach Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
1961 Psalms   Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
  Esther Laderman Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
  Ballet of the Nativity Wernick Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
1962 Alone   Freda Miller Mem. Concert - NYC
       
  Hadrianas Starer Netherlands Dance Theatre
      Rotterdam
       
  Brief Dynasty Starer Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
1963 Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher Honegger Santa Fe Opera - Santa Fe, NM
  (Dances for Opera)    
       
  Sebastian Menotti Harkness Ballet - NYC, NY
       
  The Mark of Cain Ravel Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
1964 Catulli Carmina Orff Caramoor Festival
      Katonah, NY
       
  Ceremonial Bartok Caramoor Festival
      Katonah, NY
       
  Ceremony of Innocence Harrison Lamp unto My Feet - CBS TV
       
  L'Enfance du Christ Berlioz John Butler Dance Theatre
      CBS - TV
       
1965 Chansons de Bilitis Debussy Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto
       
1966 After Eden Hoiby Harkness Ballet - NYC, NY
       
  Jepthah's Daughter Glanville-Hicks CBS TV
       
  Renard Stravinsky Netherlands Dans Theater
       
  Villon Starer Pennsylvania Ballet Company
      Second Harper Festival, Chicago
       
1967 Aphrodite Lees Boston Ballet - Boston, MA
       
  Five Ballets of the Five Senses Folk Songs... Lincoln Center/Stage Series
      Public TV (NET)
       
  A Season in Hell Glanville-Hicks Harkness Ballet - NYC, NY
       
  Landscape for Lovers Hoiby Harkness Ballet - NYC, NY
       
  The Captive Lark Starer Village Theatre - NYC, NY
       
1968 Threshold Durko/Bacewicz Austrailian Ballet - Sydney
       
  The Initiate Durko/Bacewicz Repertory Dance Theatre
      Univ. of Utah - Salt Lake City
       
  Encounters Subotnick Repertory Dance Theatr
      Univ. of Utah - Salt Lake City
       
  Labyrinth Somers Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Canada
       
1970 The Minotaur Carter Boston Ballet - Boston, MA
       
  Journeys Webern Pennsylvania Ballet
      Brooklyn, NY
       
  Itineraire Berio Ballet-Theatre Contemporaine
      Paris, France
       
1971 Hi-KY Fukushima Ballet-Theatre Contemporaine
      London, UK
       
1972 Tragic Celebration Fukushima Gala Benefit for Dance Collection
      New York Public Library
       
  According to Eve Crumb Alvin Ailey Dance Theater - NY
       
  La Voix Crumb Ballet du Ruin - France
       
  Moon Full Tzui Auni Batsheva Dance Company
      Tel Aviv, Israel
       
  Othello Crumb Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
       
1973 Black Angels Crumb Pennsylvania Ballet - PA
       
  Trip Berio Les Grands Ballet Canadiens
      Montreal, Canada
       
  Integrales Varese Paris Opera Ballet - France
       
  Ameriques Varese Paris Opera Ballet - France
       
1974 Cult of the Night Schonberg Frankfurt, Germany
       
  Puppets of Death (Othello-theme) Schonberg Batsheva Dance Company
      Tel Aviv, Israel
       
1975 Medea Barber Festival of the Two Worlds
      Spoleto, Italy
       
  Night Encounter Crumb Australia Ballet - Sydney
       
1976 Les Noces Stravinsky The Dance Company of New South Wales - Sydney, Australia
       
  Facets - (solo for Judy Jamison) Various Songs Alvin Ailey Am. Dance Theatre
      NYC, NY
       
  Othello Dvorak  Ballet of La Scala - Milan, Italy
       
1977 Icarus - (Ice Ballet) Cross John Curry Theater of Skating
      London, UK
       
  Three Ginastera San Francisco Ballet
      War Memorial Auditorium - SF
       
1978 Les Doubles Dutilleux Bavarian State Opera Ballet
      Munich, Germany
       
1979 The Commitment Bernstein Kansas City Ballet - Kansas City
  (solo for Judy Jamison)    
       
1980 Dawns and Dusks Hoddinott Ballet of the German Opera on
      the Rhine, Duisburg - Germany
       
1981 George Sand - A Landscape Chopin Bat-Dor Dance Company
      Tel Aviv - Israel
       
1983 Quest Ruggieri Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
       
1984 Romeo and Juliet Prokofiev  
       
1986 The Habit   Montreal, Canada
  (solo for Margie Gillis)    
       
1987 Romeo and Juliet (chamber vers.) Prokofiev Princeton Ballet - Princeton, PA
       

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