The Great Gatsby Exploring the dark underbelly of the American Dream and the rigidity of New York's high society between the two world wars, where social mobility was severely restricted, the story unfolds against a backdrop of a mysterious millionaire who becomes a victim of his own love and beliefs. Francis Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece, which achieved the status of a great American novel posthumously, is set in New York during the so-called Jazz Age, a term coined by Fitzgerald himself to capture the wild and extravagant twenties in the United States, a time of uninhibited hedonism, illegal alcohol, and general decadence, when some amassed immense wealth, often through mysterious means. The titular character of the novel, Jay Gatsby, is such a figure, a millionaire obsessed with his love for Daisy Buchanan.

A vibrant, dynamic, and cosmopolitan musical score accompanies this dance narrative, featuring works by great American composers such as Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Louis Prima, Samuel Barber, Glenn Miller, and George Whitefield Chadwick. This musical tapestry creates a perfect auditory and emotional backdrop to the dance story of a world of glamour, ambition, leisure, and moral emptiness within the upper echelons of American society at that time.