Geoffrey Holder originally created Adagio For a Dead Soldier in 1964.  He revived it for Judith Jamison in 1970 prior to the company’s tour to North Africa and the Soviet Union. It is a dance of mourning, danced by a grieving widow of a soldier who perished in war. This ballet was not approved for Soviet audiences by the Russian Cultural Council in New York and therefore, was not performed during the tour.