Metastaseis and Pithoprakta

Metastaseis and Pithoprakta is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to two orchestral works by Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis, written 1953–54, and Pithoprakta, written 1955–56. The premiere took place 18 January 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting designed by Ronald Bates.

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and 22 women

and 6 men

and 7 women

and 5 men

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Iannis Xenakis
Compositions	Six chansons pour piano (1950) Metastaseis (1953–1954) Pithoprakta (1955–1956) Diamorphoses (1957) Concret PH (1958) Herma (1961) Nomos Alpha (1965–1966) Polytope de Montréal (1967) Kraanerg (1968) Persephassa (1969) Synaphaï (1969) Antikhthon (1971) Aroura (1971) Evryali (1973) Psappha (1975) Pléïades (1979) Komboï (1981) Keqrops (1986) Rebonds (1989) Okho (1989) Troorkh (1991)
Buildings	Sainte Marie de La Tourette (1956-1960) Philips Pavilion (1958)
Collaborators and influences	Le Corbusier Pierre Schaeffer Edgard Varèse
Publications	Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1992)
Related articles	CCMIX Indeterminacy in music Musique concrète Stochastic music
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