New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

dances Winter, Spring and – since 2010 – Fall seasons each year at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...

, as well as a Summer season at Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center is an amphitheater in Saratoga Springs, New York, which presents summer festivals of all kinds of music , dance, and opera, as well as a Wine & Food Festival...

 and tours; this is the list of ballets with casts for the 2008 Spring season, beginning with the gala, Tuesday, April 29, and ending Sunday, June 29.

Tuesday, April 29, Spring gala

• • Circus Polka
    Circus Polka
    Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1942. He composed it for a ballet production the choreographer George Balanchine did for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The ballet was performed by fifty elephants and fifty ballerinas...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Robert La Fosse

• • The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (ballet)
    The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...
    
    

Janus

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Winter

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Adam Hendrickson

Antonio Carmena

Spring

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Sara Mearns

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Summer

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Tyler Angle first time in rôle

Fall

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Ashley Bouder

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Daniel Ulbricht

• • West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...
    
    

Faye Arthurs

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gretchen Smith

Robert Fairchild

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Wednesday, April 30

• • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (ballet)
    Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
    
    

• • • First movement

Abi Stafford

Jonathan Stafford

• • • Second movement

Sara Mearns

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • • Third movement

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 Due to illness or injury, Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 replaced Ashley Bouder in Symphony in C

Symphony in C (ballet)

Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...

and Kathryn Morgan replaced Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 in Western Symphony

Western Symphony

Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...

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Gonzalo Garcia NYC rôle debut

• • • Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Sean Suozzi

• • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Sterling Hyltin

Savannah Lowery 

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

Daniel Ulbricht 

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • Western Symphony
    Western Symphony
    Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...
    
    

• • • First movement: Allegro

Jennifer Tinsley-Williams

Nilas Martins

• • • Second movement: Adagio

Kathryn Morgan 

Adam Hendrickson

• • • Third movement: Rondo

Teresa Reichlen

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Thursday, May 1, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Fancy Free

Amanda Hankes

Tiler Peck

Briana Shepherd

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Ethan Stiefel

Ethan Stiefel

Ethan Stiefel is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre . His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT.-Biography:...

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

 

• • Dybbuk
    Dybbuk (ballet)
    Dybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk as a source...
    
    

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...
    
    

Faye Arthurs

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gretchen Smith

Robert Fairchild

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Andrew Veyette

Friday, May 2, Jerome Robbins celebration

Friday, May 2, Jennifer Tipton

Jennifer Tipton

Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera.In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University...

 on working with Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

Friday, May 2

• • Watermill
    Watermill (ballet)
    Watermill is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Teiji Ito's eponymous music from the previous year with costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, lighting by Jennifer Tipton and décor by Robbins in association with Davie Reppa...
    
    

Kaitlyn Gilliland 

Nikolaj Hübbe

Nikolaj Hübbe

Nikolaj Hübbe is artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. He was born on 30 October th, 1967, and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. He began his dance training at age 10 at the Royal Danish Ballet School and became an apprentice to the Royal Danish Ballet in 1984. He was promoted soloist in 1988....

Zachary Catazaro *

Matthew Renko *

Adam Hendrickson 

• • The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (ballet)
    The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...
    
    

Janus

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Winter

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Sean Suozzi Due to illness or injury, Sean Suozzi, Tyler Angle and Rebecca Krohn replaced Adam Hendrickson, Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

 and Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

 in The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

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Antonio Carmena

Spring

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Sara Mearns

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Summer

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Rebecca Krohn 

Tyler Angle

Fall

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Ashley Bouder

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Daniel Ulbricht

Saturday, May 3, matinée

Saturday, May 3

• • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (ballet)
    Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
    
    

• • • First movement

Abi Stafford

Jonathan Stafford

• • • Second movement

Sara Mearns

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • • Third movement

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 

Gonzalo Garcia

• • • Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Sean Suozzi

• • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Sterling Hyltin

Savannah Lowery

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

Daniel Ulbricht

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • Western Symphony
    Western Symphony
    Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...
    
    

• • • First movement: Allegro

Jennifer Tinsley-Williams

Nilas Martins

• • • Second movement: Adagio

Kathryn Morgan 

Adam Hendrickson

• • • Third movement: Rondo

Teresa Reichlen

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Saturday, May 3, evening, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Watermill
    Watermill (ballet)
    Watermill is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Teiji Ito's eponymous music from the previous year with costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, lighting by Jennifer Tipton and décor by Robbins in association with Davie Reppa...
    
    

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Nikolaj Hübbe

Nikolaj Hübbe

Nikolaj Hübbe is artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. He was born on 30 October th, 1967, and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. He began his dance training at age 10 at the Royal Danish Ballet School and became an apprentice to the Royal Danish Ballet in 1984. He was promoted soloist in 1988....

Zachary Catazaro

Matthew Renko

Adam Hendrickson

• • The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (ballet)
    The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...
    
    

Janus

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Winter

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Sean Suozzi 

Antonio Carmena

Spring

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Sara Mearns

Jared Angle

Summer

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Rebecca Krohn 

Tyler Angle 

Fall

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Ashley Bouder

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Daniel Ulbricht

Sunday matinée, May 4, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Fancy Free

Amanda Hankes

Tiler Peck

Briana Shepherd

Marcelo Gomes

Marcelo Gomes (dancer)

Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....

Due to illness or injury, Marcelo Gomes

Marcelo Gomes (dancer)

Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....

 replaced Jose Manuel Carreño

Jose Manuel Carreño

José Manuel Carreño is a retired Cuban ballet dancer, who performed as a principal dancer with the English National Ballet, Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre....

 in West Side Story Suite

West Side Story Suite

West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...

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Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Tyler Angle

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Dybbuk
    Dybbuk (ballet)
    Dybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk as a source...
    
    

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...
    
    

Faye Arthurs

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gretchen Smith

Robert Fairchild

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Andrew Veyette

Tuesday, May 6, Jerome Robbins celebration

Tuesday, May 6

• • Fancy Free

Amanda Hankes

Tiler Peck

Briana Shepherd

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Herman Cornejofirst time in rôle

Tyler Angle

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Dybbuk
    Dybbuk (ballet)
    Dybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk as a source...
    
    

Janie Taylor 

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...
    
    

Faye Arthurs

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gretchen Smith

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Wednesday, May 7

• • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (ballet)
    Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
    
    

• • • First movement

Ana Sophia Scheller

Jared Angle

• • • Second movement

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Third movement

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • • Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Tyler Angle

• • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Abi Stafford

Sterling Hyltin

Savannah Lowery

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Adam Hendrickson

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • Western Symphony
    Western Symphony
    Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...
    
    

• • • First movement: Allegro

Jennifer Tinsley-Williams

Jonathan Stafford

• • • Second movement: Adagio

Kathryn Morgan 

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

• • • Third movement: Rondo

Teresa Reichlen

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Thursday, May 8, Jerome Robbins celebration

Thursday, May 8 The Seasons

• • Watermill
    Watermill (ballet)
    Watermill is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Teiji Ito's eponymous music from the previous year with costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, lighting by Jennifer Tipton and décor by Robbins in association with Davie Reppa...
    
    

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Nikolaj Hübbe

Nikolaj Hübbe

Nikolaj Hübbe is artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. He was born on 30 October th, 1967, and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. He began his dance training at age 10 at the Royal Danish Ballet School and became an apprentice to the Royal Danish Ballet in 1984. He was promoted soloist in 1988....

Zachary Catazaro

Matthew Renko

Adam Hendrickson

• • The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (ballet)
    The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...
    
    

Winter

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Sterling Hyltin

Christian Tworzyanski

Sean Suozzi

Spring

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Sara Mearns

Jared Angle

Summer

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Rebecca Krohn

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Fall

The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani , I Lombardi and Il Trovatore...

Ashley Bouder

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Antonio Carmena

Friday, May 9, Jerome Robbins celebration

Friday, May 9

• • Andantino
    Andantino (ballet)
    Andantino, originally titled Pas de Deux, is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the second movement of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23...
    
    

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • Opus 19/The Dreamer
    Opus 19/The Dreamer
    Opus 19/The Dreamer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, in D major with costumes by and lighting by Ronald Bates. The premiere took place on June 14, 1979, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Gonzalo Garcia 

• • Piano Pieces
    Piano Pieces
    Piano Pieces is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's music:*Danse Characteristique, Op. 72, No. 4*Le Paysan Prelude, Op. 39, No. 12*Chanson Populaire, Op. 39, No. 13...
    
    

Sara Mearns 

Abi Stafford

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Antonio Carmena

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Stephen Hanna

• • Les Noces
    Les Noces (Robbins)
    Les Noces is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet balletmaster, to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1923 for American Ballet Theatre with sets by Oliver Smith under supervision of Rosaria Sinisi, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The...
    
    

Tiler Peck 

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

 

Rebecca Krohn 

Georgina Pazcoguin 

Adam Hendrickson

Stephen Hanna 

Jonathan Stafford 

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Saturday, May 10, matinée

Saturday, May 10

• • Bugaku
    Bugaku (ballet)
    Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on March 30, 1963, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

 

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

• • An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (ballet)
    An American in Paris is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, to eponymous music by George Gershwin from 1928...
    
    

Tiler Peck

Sara Mearns

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • Valse Triste
    Valse Triste (ballet)
    Valse Triste is a ballet made by New York City Ballet then balletmaster Peter Martins to Sibelius's eponymous waltz as well as Scene with Cranes from his incidental music for the play Kuolema . the crane being a symbol of death in Finnish literature...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Jared Angle

• • The Chairman Dances
    The Chairman Dances (ballet)
    The Chairman Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' eponymous music from 1985. The music was originally written for Adams' opera, Nixon in China, but not used in production: the scene is that in which Mao Zedong dances with his future...
    
    

Teresa Reichlen 

• • Russian Seasons
    Russian Seasons
    Russian Seasons is the first of three ballets made by Alexei Ratmansky on New York City Ballet, the others being Concerto DSCH and Namouna, A Grand Divertissement...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

Saturday, May 10, evening

• • Bugaku
    Bugaku (ballet)
    Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on March 30, 1963, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

• • An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (ballet)
    An American in Paris is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, to eponymous music by George Gershwin from 1928...
    
    

Tiler Peck

Sara Mearns

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • Valse Triste
    Valse Triste (ballet)
    Valse Triste is a ballet made by New York City Ballet then balletmaster Peter Martins to Sibelius's eponymous waltz as well as Scene with Cranes from his incidental music for the play Kuolema . the crane being a symbol of death in Finnish literature...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Jared Angle

• • The Chairman Dances
    The Chairman Dances (ballet)
    The Chairman Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' eponymous music from 1985. The music was originally written for Adams' opera, Nixon in China, but not used in production: the scene is that in which Mao Zedong dances with his future...
    
    

Teresa Reichlen

• • Russian Seasons
    Russian Seasons
    Russian Seasons is the first of three ballets made by Alexei Ratmansky on New York City Ballet, the others being Concerto DSCH and Namouna, A Grand Divertissement...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

Sunday matinée, May 11, Jerome Robbins celebration, (Mothers' Day)

• • Fancy Free

Georgina Pazcoguin

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Briana Shepherd

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Adam Hendrickson

Robert Fairchild 

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Dybbuk
    Dybbuk (ballet)
    Dybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk as a source...
    
    

Janie Taylor

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...
    
    

Faye Arthurs

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gretchen Smith

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Andrew Veyette

Tuesday, May 13

• • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (ballet)
    Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
    
    

• • • First movement

Ana Sophia Scheller

Jared Angle

• • • Second movement

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Third movement

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • • Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Tyler Angle

• • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Abi Stafford

Sterling Hyltin

Savannah Lowery

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Adam Hendrickson

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • Western Symphony
    Western Symphony
    Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...
    
    

• • • First movement: Allegro

Jennifer Tinsley-Williams

Jonathan Stafford

• • • Second movement: Adagio

Kathryn Morgan

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

• • • Third movement: Rondo

Teresa Reichlen

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Wednesday, May 14, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Andantino
    Andantino (ballet)
    Andantino, originally titled Pas de Deux, is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the second movement of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23...
    
    

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • Opus 19/The Dreamer
    Opus 19/The Dreamer
    Opus 19/The Dreamer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, in D major with costumes by and lighting by Ronald Bates. The premiere took place on June 14, 1979, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Gonzalo Garcia

• • Piano Pieces
    Piano Pieces
    Piano Pieces is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's music:*Danse Characteristique, Op. 72, No. 4*Le Paysan Prelude, Op. 39, No. 12*Chanson Populaire, Op. 39, No. 13...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Abi Stafford

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Antonio Carmena

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Stephen Hanna

• • Les Noces
    Les Noces (Robbins)
    Les Noces is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet balletmaster, to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1923 for American Ballet Theatre with sets by Oliver Smith under supervision of Rosaria Sinisi, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The...
    
    

Kathryn Morgan first time in rôle

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Rebecca Krohn

Ana Sophia Scheller 

Allen Peiffer 

Stephen Hanna

Jonathan Stafford

Andrew Veyette 

Thursday, May 15, Jerome Robbins celebration

Thursday, May 15 French Cuisine

• • Mother Goose
    Mother Goose (ballet)
    Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye Suite from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with...
    
    

NYCB ensemble

• • Afternoon of a Faun
    Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)
    Afternoon of a Faun is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune...
    
    

Janie Taylor

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • Antique Epigraphs
    Antique Epigraphs
    Antique Epigraphs is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to an orchestrated version of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques, L131, for piano, four hands, from 1914: *“Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été”...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Rebecca Krohn 

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Teresa Reichlen

• • In G Major
    In G Major
    In G Major is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's Piano Concerto in G Major . The premiere took place May 15, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Friday, May 16, Double Feature

Double Feature (ballet)

Double Feature was made by Susan Stroman on New York City Ballet to music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson and a libretto by Ms. Stroman and Glen Kelly with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and arrangement by Mr. Kelly; the libretto for "Makin' Whoopee!" is based on the play Seven Chances,...

• • The Blue Necklace

Dorothy Brooks

Mrs. Griffith

Mable

Florence

Billy Randolph

Mr. Griffith

Sara Mearns

Savannah Lowery

Ashley Bouder

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Makin' Whoopee

Anne Windsor

Jimmie Shannon

Joe Doherty

Edward Meekin

Garrison

Tiler Peck

Tom Gold

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Robert Fairchild

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Saturday, May 17, matinée, Double Feature

Double Feature (ballet)

Double Feature was made by Susan Stroman on New York City Ballet to music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson and a libretto by Ms. Stroman and Glen Kelly with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and arrangement by Mr. Kelly; the libretto for "Makin' Whoopee!" is based on the play Seven Chances,...

• • The Blue Necklace

Dorothy Brooks

Mrs. Griffith

Mable

Florence

Billy Randolph

Mr. Griffith

Sara Mearns

Savannah Lowery

Ashley Bouder

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Makin' Whoopee

Anne Windsor

Jimmie Shannon

Joe Doherty

Edward Meekin

Garrison

Tiler Peck

Tom Gold

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Robert Fairchild

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Saturday, May 17, evening, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Andantino
    Andantino (ballet)
    Andantino, originally titled Pas de Deux, is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the second movement of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23...
    
    

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • Opus 19/The Dreamer
    Opus 19/The Dreamer
    Opus 19/The Dreamer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, in D major with costumes by and lighting by Ronald Bates. The premiere took place on June 14, 1979, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Janie Taylor 

Gonzalo Garcia

• • Piano Pieces
    Piano Pieces
    Piano Pieces is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's music:*Danse Characteristique, Op. 72, No. 4*Le Paysan Prelude, Op. 39, No. 12*Chanson Populaire, Op. 39, No. 13...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Abi Stafford

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Antonio Carmena

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Stephen Hanna

• • Les Noces
    Les Noces (Robbins)
    Les Noces is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet balletmaster, to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1923 for American Ballet Theatre with sets by Oliver Smith under supervision of Rosaria Sinisi, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The...
    
    

Tiler Peck

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Rebecca Krohn

Georgina Pazcoguin

Adam Hendrickson

Stephen Hanna

Jonathan Stafford

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Sunday matinée, May 18, Double Feature

Double Feature (ballet)

Double Feature was made by Susan Stroman on New York City Ballet to music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson and a libretto by Ms. Stroman and Glen Kelly with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and arrangement by Mr. Kelly; the libretto for "Makin' Whoopee!" is based on the play Seven Chances,...

• • The Blue Necklace

Dorothy Brooks

Mrs. Griffith

Mable

Florence

Billy Randolph

Mr. Griffith

Sara Mearns

Savannah Lowery

Ashley Bouder

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Makin' Whoopee

Anne Windsor

Jimmie Shannon

Joe Doherty

Edward Meekin

Garrison

Tiler Peck

Tom Gold

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Robert Fairchild

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Tuesday, May 20, Double Feature

Double Feature (ballet)

Double Feature was made by Susan Stroman on New York City Ballet to music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson and a libretto by Ms. Stroman and Glen Kelly with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and arrangement by Mr. Kelly; the libretto for "Makin' Whoopee!" is based on the play Seven Chances,...

• • The Blue Necklace

Dorothy Brooks

Mrs. Griffith

Mable

Florence

Young Mable

Young Florence

Billy Randolph

Mr. Griffith

Sara Mearns

Savannah Lowery

Sterling Hyltin

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Skyla Shreter

Clara Ruf-Muldonado

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Kyle Froman

• • Makin' Whoopee

Anne Windsor

Jimmie Shannon

Joe Doherty

Edward Meekin

Garrison

Tiler Peck

Tom Gold

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Robert Fairchild

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Wednesday, May 21, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Brandenburg
    Brandenburg (ballet)
    Brandenburg is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to music from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos :*Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048 Allegro **Brandenburg Concerto No...
    
    

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 replaced Ashley Bouder in Brandenburg

Brandenburg

Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...

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Janie Taylor

Gonzalo Garcia

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • In the Night
    In the Night
    In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...
    
    

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns first time in rôle

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Tyler Angle

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Jared Angle

• • NY Export: Opus Jazz
    NY Export: Opus Jazz
    NY Export: Opus Jazz is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to music of the same title by Robert Prince. The premiere took place June 8, 1958 at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, performed by Ballets: USA and subsequently on Broadway...
    
    

Georgina Pazcoguin

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Andrew Veyette

Craig Hall

Thursday, May 22, Double Feature

Double Feature (ballet)

Double Feature was made by Susan Stroman on New York City Ballet to music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson and a libretto by Ms. Stroman and Glen Kelly with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and arrangement by Mr. Kelly; the libretto for "Makin' Whoopee!" is based on the play Seven Chances,...

• • The Blue Necklace

Dorothy Brooks

Mrs. Griffith

Mable

Florence

Young Mable

Young Florence

Billy Randolph

Mr. Griffith

Sara Mearns

Savannah Lowery

Sterling Hyltin

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Skyla Shreter

Clara Ruf-Muldonado

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Kyle Froman

• • Makin' Whoopee

Anne Windsor

Jimmie Shannon

Joe Doherty

Edward Meekin

Garrison

Tiler Peck

Tom Gold

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Robert Fairchild

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Friday, May 23

• • Bugaku
    Bugaku (ballet)
    Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on March 30, 1963, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

• • An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (ballet)
    An American in Paris is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, to eponymous music by George Gershwin from 1928...
    
    

Tiler Peck

Sara Mearns

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • Valse Triste
    Valse Triste (ballet)
    Valse Triste is a ballet made by New York City Ballet then balletmaster Peter Martins to Sibelius's eponymous waltz as well as Scene with Cranes from his incidental music for the play Kuolema . the crane being a symbol of death in Finnish literature...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Jared Angle

• • The Chairman Dances
    The Chairman Dances (ballet)
    The Chairman Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' eponymous music from 1985. The music was originally written for Adams' opera, Nixon in China, but not used in production: the scene is that in which Mao Zedong dances with his future...
    
    

Teresa Reichlen

• • Russian Seasons
    Russian Seasons
    Russian Seasons is the first of three ballets made by Alexei Ratmansky on New York City Ballet, the others being Concerto DSCH and Namouna, A Grand Divertissement...
    
    

Georgina Pazcoguin

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Albert Evans

Albert Evans (dancer)

Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986...

Saturday, May 24, matinée, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Mother Goose
    Mother Goose (ballet)
    Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye Suite from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with...
    
    

NYCB ensemble

• • Afternoon of a Faun
    Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)
    Afternoon of a Faun is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune...
    
    

Janie Taylor

Craig Hall

• • Antique Epigraphs
    Antique Epigraphs
    Antique Epigraphs is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to an orchestrated version of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques, L131, for piano, four hands, from 1914: *“Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été”...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Rebecca Krohn

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Teresa Reichlen

• • In G Major
    In G Major
    In G Major is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's Piano Concerto in G Major . The premiere took place May 15, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Saturday, May 24, evening, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Brandenburg
    Brandenburg (ballet)
    Brandenburg is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to music from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos :*Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048 Allegro **Brandenburg Concerto No...
    
    

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 

Janie Taylor

Gonzalo Garcia

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • In the Night
    In the Night
    In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...
    
    

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns 

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Tyler Angle

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Jared Angle

• • NY Export: Opus Jazz
    NY Export: Opus Jazz
    NY Export: Opus Jazz is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to music of the same title by Robert Prince. The premiere took place June 8, 1958 at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, performed by Ballets: USA and subsequently on Broadway...
    
    

Georgina Pazcoguin

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Andrew Veyette

Craig Hall

Sunday matinée, May 25, Jewels

Jewels (ballet)

Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

• • Emeralds

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Alina Dronova

Ana Sophia Scheller

Stephen Hanna

Jonathan Stafford

Sean Suozzi

• • Rubies

Ashley Bouder

Teresa Reichlen

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • Diamonds

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Tuesday, May 27, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Interplay
    Interplay (ballet)
    Interplay is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, for Billy Rose's Concert Varieties to Morton Gould's 1945 American Concertette...
    
    

Tiler Peck first time in rôle

Ana Sophia Scheller 

Ashley Laracey 

Stephanie Zungre 

Robert Fairchild 

Sean Suozzi

Daniel Ulbricht

Troy Schumacher 

• • Ives, Songs
    Ives, Songs
    Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives: *The Children's Hour*Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant*Waltz*The Cage*The See'r*Two Little Flowers*At the River and Serenity*He is There...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Jared Angle

Robert La Fosse

• • I'm Old Fashioned
    I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
    I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Sara Mearns 

Ashley Bouder 

Adrian Danchig-Waring 

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Stephen Hanna

Wednesday, May 28, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Mother Goose
    Mother Goose (ballet)
    Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye Suite from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with...
    
    

NYCB ensemble

• • Afternoon of a Faun
    Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)
    Afternoon of a Faun is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune...
    
    

Janie Taylor

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • Antique Epigraphs
    Antique Epigraphs
    Antique Epigraphs is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to an orchestrated version of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques, L131, for piano, four hands, from 1914: *“Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été”...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Rebecca Krohn

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Teresa Reichlen

• • In G Major
    In G Major
    In G Major is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's Piano Concerto in G Major . The premiere took place May 15, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Sara Mearns 

Tyler Angle 

Thursday, May 29

• • Rococo Variations
    Rococo Variations (ballet)
    Rococo Variations is the last ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon during his tenure as New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer; it was made to Tschaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for violoncello and orchestra in A major Op. 33...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin

Sara Mearns

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Giovanni Villalobos

• • Oltremare
    Oltremare
    Oltremare is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to Bruno Moretti's eponymous music commissioned by New York City Ballet. The premiere took place Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by the choreographer and Marc Happel and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Tyler Angle

• • River of Light
    River of Light
    River of Light is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen commissioned in honor of his sixtieth birthday...
    
    

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...

, conductor

Teresa Reichlen 

Savannah Lowery 

Sterling Hyltin 

Jared Angle 

Ask la Cour 

Robert Fairchild 

• • Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

world premiere

Ashley Bouder 

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

 

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 

Gonzalo Garcia 

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 

Friday, May 30, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Interplay
    Interplay (ballet)
    Interplay is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, for Billy Rose's Concert Varieties to Morton Gould's 1945 American Concertette...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin 

Ana Sophia Scheller

Ashley Laracey

Stephanie Zungre

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

 

Sean Suozzi

Daniel Ulbricht

Troy Schumacher

• • Ives, Songs
    Ives, Songs
    Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives: *The Children's Hour*Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant*Waltz*The Cage*The See'r*Two Little Flowers*At the River and Serenity*He is There...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Jared Angle

Robert La Fosse

• • I'm Old Fashioned
    I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
    I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Sara Mearns

Ashley Bouder

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Stephen Hanna

Saturday, May 31, matinée, Jewels

Jewels (ballet)

Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

• • Emeralds

Ashley Bouder

Abi Stafford

Ashley Laracey

Glenn Keenan

Jared Angle

Ask la Cour

Antonio Carmena

• • Rubies

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Savannah Lowery

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • Diamonds

Sara Mearns

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Saturday, May 31, evening

• • Rococo Variations
    Rococo Variations (ballet)
    Rococo Variations is the last ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon during his tenure as New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer; it was made to Tschaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for violoncello and orchestra in A major Op. 33...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin

Sara Mearns

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Giovanni Villalobos

• • Oltremare
    Oltremare
    Oltremare is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to Bruno Moretti's eponymous music commissioned by New York City Ballet. The premiere took place Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by the choreographer and Marc Happel and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Tyler Angle

• • River of Light
    River of Light
    River of Light is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen commissioned in honor of his sixtieth birthday...
    
    

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...

, conductor

Teresa Reichlen

Savannah Lowery

Sterling Hyltin

Jared Angle

Ask la Cour

Robert Fairchild

• • Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Gonzalo Garcia

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Sunday matinée, June 1, Jerome Robbins celebration

• • Interplay
    Interplay (ballet)
    Interplay is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, for Billy Rose's Concert Varieties to Morton Gould's 1945 American Concertette...
    
    

Tiler Peck

Ana Sophia Scheller

Ashley Laracey

Stephanie Zungre

Robert Fairchild

Sean Suozzi

Daniel Ulbricht

Troy Schumacher

• • Ives, Songs
    Ives, Songs
    Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives: *The Children's Hour*Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant*Waltz*The Cage*The See'r*Two Little Flowers*At the River and Serenity*He is There...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Jared Angle

Robert La Fosse

• • I'm Old Fashioned
    I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
    I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Sara Mearns

Ashley Bouder

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Tyler Angle 

Tuesday, June 3

• • Rococo Variations
    Rococo Variations (ballet)
    Rococo Variations is the last ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon during his tenure as New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer; it was made to Tschaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for violoncello and orchestra in A major Op. 33...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin

Sara Mearns

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Giovanni Villalobos

• • Oltremare
    Oltremare
    Oltremare is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to Bruno Moretti's eponymous music commissioned by New York City Ballet. The premiere took place Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by the choreographer and Marc Happel and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Tyler Angle

• • River of Light
    River of Light
    River of Light is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen commissioned in honor of his sixtieth birthday...
    
    

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...

, conductor

Teresa Reichlen

Savannah Lowery

Sterling Hyltin

Jared Angle

Ask la Cour

Robert Fairchild

• • Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Gonzalo Garcia

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Wednesday, June 4

• • Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the music of Chopin: *John Clifford*Robert Maiorano*John Prinz*Edward Villella- 2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration : *Yvonne Borree...
    
    

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Ashley Bouder

Sara Mearns

Abi Stafford

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Antonio Carmena

Jonathan Stafford

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
    

Julie Kentfirst time in rôle

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • The Concert
    The Concert (ballet)
    The Concert is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet's balletmaster, to Chopin's: *Tanaquil LeClercq*Todd Bolender*Yvonne Mounsey*Robert Barnett*Wilma Curley*John Mandia*Shaun O'Brien...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin NYC rôle debut

Rachel Piskin

Ashley Laracey

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Andrew Veyette

Austin Laurent

Allen Peiffer

Justin Peck

Thursday, June 5

• • Brandenburg
    Brandenburg (ballet)
    Brandenburg is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to music from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos :*Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048 Allegro **Brandenburg Concerto No...
    
    

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Janie Taylor

Andrew Veyette

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • In the Night
    In the Night
    In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...
    
    

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Tyler Angle

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

 Due to injury or illness Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

 replaced Stephen Hanna in In the Night

In the Night

In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...

.

Jared Angle

• • NY Export: Opus Jazz
    NY Export: Opus Jazz
    NY Export: Opus Jazz is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to music of the same title by Robert Prince. The premiere took place June 8, 1958 at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, performed by Ballets: USA and subsequently on Broadway...
    
    

Georgina Pazcoguin

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Andrew Veyette

Craig Hall

Friday, June 6

• • Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the music of Chopin: *John Clifford*Robert Maiorano*John Prinz*Edward Villella- 2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration : *Yvonne Borree...
    
    

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Ashley Bouder

Sara Mearns

Abi Stafford

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Antonio Carmena

Jonathan Stafford

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
    

Julie Kent Julie Kent and Gonzalo Garcia replaced Alina Cojocaru

Alina Cojocaru

Alina Cojocaru is a female principal dancer with The Royal Ballet of London.-Early years:Alina Cojocaru was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She has one sister. From a young age she studied gymnastics...

 and Johan Kobborg

Johan Kobborg

Johan Kobborg is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.-Early Life:Johan Kobborg was born in Odense, Denmark into an artistic family; his mother is a former showgirl and actress and his brother is an actor...

 in Other Dances

Other Dances

Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...

.

Gonzalo Garcia NYCB rôle debut

• • The Concert
    The Concert (ballet)
    The Concert is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet's balletmaster, to Chopin's: *Tanaquil LeClercq*Todd Bolender*Yvonne Mounsey*Robert Barnett*Wilma Curley*John Mandia*Shaun O'Brien...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin

Rachel Piskin

Ashley Laracey

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Andrew Veyette

Tom Gold

Allen Peiffer

Justin Peck

Saturday, June 7, matinée, Jewels

Jewels (ballet)

Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

• • Emeralds

Ashley Bouder

Abi Stafford

Ashley Laracey

Glenn Keenan

Jared Angle

Ask la Cour

Robert Fairchild

• • Rubies

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Savannah Lowery

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • Diamonds

Sara Mearns

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Saturday, June 7, evening, Jewels

Jewels (ballet)

Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

• • Emeralds

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Alina Dronova

Ana Sophia Scheller

Stephen Hanna

Jonathan Stafford

Sean Suozzi

• • Rubies

Ashley Bouder

Teresa Reichlen

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 Due to injury or illness Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 replaced Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 in Rubies.

• • Diamonds

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Sunday matinée, June 8

• • Thou Swell
    Thou Swell (ballet)
    Thou Swell is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen Kelly with orchestrations Don Sebesky: *"Where or When" *"Manhattan"...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Sara Mearns

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Faye Arthurs

Jared Angle

Tyler Angle

Nilas Martins

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Prodigal Son

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Pauline Golbin

Dena Abergel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Ask la Cour 

Sean Suozzi

Adam Hendrickson

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

• • • First movement

Abi Stafford 

Savannah Lowery 

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Second movement

Janie Taylor 

Jared Angle 

• • • Third movement

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • • Fourth movement

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

 Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

 replaced Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

 in Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet.

Tuesday, June 10

• • Circus Polka
    Circus Polka
    Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1942. He composed it for a ballet production the choreographer George Balanchine did for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The ballet was performed by fifty elephants and fifty ballerinas...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Robert La Fosse

• • Moves
    Moves (ballet)
    Moves is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins on his company Ballets: USA for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds where it received its premiere July 3, 1959; the New York City Ballet première took place on Wednesday, May 2, 1984, by which time Robbins was City Ballet's ballet master, at the New York...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Jared Angle

• • The Cage
    The Cage (ballet)
    The Cage is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Stravinsky's Concerto in D for string orchestra, the "Basle Concerto" , which he was commissioned to compose on the twentieth anniversary of the Swiss orchestra; it notably shifts between D major and minor...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Teresa Reichlen first time in rôle

Sébastien Marcovici

Adam Hendrickson

• • Four Bagatelles
    Four Bagatelles
    Four Bagatelles is New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins' only ballet made to the music of Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 33 nos. 4 , 5, and 2 and op. 126 no. 4...
    
    

Ashley Bouder 

Gonzalo Garcia 

• • Fanfare
    Fanfare (ballet)
    Fanfare is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34 in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the premiere took place on Coronation Night, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1953, at City Center of Music and...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Wednesday, June 11

• • Circus Polka
    Circus Polka
    Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1942. He composed it for a ballet production the choreographer George Balanchine did for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The ballet was performed by fifty elephants and fifty ballerinas...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Robert La Fosse

• • Moves
    Moves (ballet)
    Moves is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins on his company Ballets: USA for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds where it received its premiere July 3, 1959; the New York City Ballet première took place on Wednesday, May 2, 1984, by which time Robbins was City Ballet's ballet master, at the New York...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Jared Angle

• • The Cage
    The Cage (ballet)
    The Cage is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Stravinsky's Concerto in D for string orchestra, the "Basle Concerto" , which he was commissioned to compose on the twentieth anniversary of the Swiss orchestra; it notably shifts between D major and minor...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Teresa Reichlen

Sébastien Marcovici

Adam Hendrickson

• • Four Bagatelles
    Four Bagatelles
    Four Bagatelles is New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins' only ballet made to the music of Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 33 nos. 4 , 5, and 2 and op. 126 no. 4...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Gonzalo Garcia

• • Fanfare
    Fanfare (ballet)
    Fanfare is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34 in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the premiere took place on Coronation Night, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1953, at City Center of Music and...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Thursday, June 12

Thursday, June 12 Here and Now

• • Rococo Variations
    Rococo Variations (ballet)
    Rococo Variations is the last ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon during his tenure as New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer; it was made to Tschaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for violoncello and orchestra in A major Op. 33...
    
    

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...

, conductor

Sterling Hyltin

Sara Mearns

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Giovanni Villalobos

• • River of Light
    River of Light
    River of Light is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen commissioned in honor of his sixtieth birthday...
    
    

Kaitlyn Gilliland 

Rebecca Krohn 

Erica Pereira 

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

 

Jonathan Stafford 

Tyler Angle 

• • Oltremare
    Oltremare
    Oltremare is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to Bruno Moretti's eponymous music commissioned by New York City Ballet. The premiere took place Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by the choreographer and Marc Happel and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Tyler Angle

• • Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Gonzalo Garcia

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Friday, June 13

• • Thou Swell
    Thou Swell (ballet)
    Thou Swell is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen Kelly with orchestrations Don Sebesky: *"Where or When" *"Manhattan"...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Sara Mearns

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Faye Arthurs

Jared Angle

Tyler Angle

Nilas Martins

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Prodigal Son

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Pauline Golbin

Dena Abergel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Ask la Cour

Sean Suozzi

Adam Hendrickson

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

• • • First movement

Abi Stafford

Savannah Lowery

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Second movement

Janie Taylor

Jared Angle

• • • Third movement

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

• • • Fourth movement

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Saturday, June 14, matinée

• • 2 and 3 Part Inventions
    2 and 3 Part Inventions
    2 and 3 Part Inventions is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on students at its affiliated school, the School of American Ballet, to Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, . The premiere took place on Saturday, June 4th, 1994, at the Juilliard Theater,...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

• • A Suite of Dances
    A Suite of Dances
    A Suite of Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Mikhail Baryshnikov to four movements from Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello : *Prelude from Suite I in G major, BWV 1007...
    
    

Nicolas Le Riche

Nicolas Le Riche

Nicolas Le Riche is a French ballet dancer. He entered the Paris Opera Ballet school at age ten and joined the corps de ballet six years later; his first ròle was in Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique. He was promoted to sujet in 1990 and premier danseur in 1991...

• • In Memory of ...
    In Memory of ...
    In Memory of ... is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto of 1935 , based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song and Bach's O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Jared Angle

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Philip Glass' Rubric and Façades from Glassworks and excerpts from his opera Akhnaten. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 12th, 1983, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Savannah Lowery 

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Tyler Angle

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Ask la Cour

Sébastien Marcovici

Saturday, June 14, evening

• • 2 and 3 Part Inventions
    2 and 3 Part Inventions
    2 and 3 Part Inventions is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on students at its affiliated school, the School of American Ballet, to Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, . The premiere took place on Saturday, June 4th, 1994, at the Juilliard Theater,...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

• • A Suite of Dances
    A Suite of Dances
    A Suite of Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Mikhail Baryshnikov to four movements from Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello : *Prelude from Suite I in G major, BWV 1007...
    
    

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

• • In Memory of ...
    In Memory of ...
    In Memory of ... is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto of 1935 , based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song and Bach's O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20...
    
    

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

Jared Angle

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Philip Glass' Rubric and Façades from Glassworks and excerpts from his opera Akhnaten. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 12th, 1983, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Savannah Lowery

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Tyler Angle

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Ask la Cour

Sébastien Marcovici

Sunday matinée, June 15

• • Circus Polka
    Circus Polka
    Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1942. He composed it for a ballet production the choreographer George Balanchine did for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The ballet was performed by fifty elephants and fifty ballerinas...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Robert La Fosse

• • Moves
    Moves (ballet)
    Moves is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins on his company Ballets: USA for the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds where it received its premiere July 3, 1959; the New York City Ballet première took place on Wednesday, May 2, 1984, by which time Robbins was City Ballet's ballet master, at the New York...
    
    

Teresa Reichlen

Andrew Veyette

• • The Cage
    The Cage (ballet)
    The Cage is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Stravinsky's Concerto in D for string orchestra, the "Basle Concerto" , which he was commissioned to compose on the twentieth anniversary of the Swiss orchestra; it notably shifts between D major and minor...
    
    

Janie Taylor 

Rebecca Krohn

Craig Hall

Adam Hendrickson

• • Four Bagatelles
    Four Bagatelles
    Four Bagatelles is New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins' only ballet made to the music of Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 33 nos. 4 , 5, and 2 and op. 126 no. 4...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Gonzalo Garcia

• • Fanfare
    Fanfare (ballet)
    Fanfare is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34 in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the premiere took place on Coronation Night, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1953, at City Center of Music and...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

Monday, June 16, NYCB seminar

Jerome Robbins:

Community of Dancers

Christine Redpath

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Jean-Pierre Frohlich

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

Tuesday, June 17

• • 2 and 3 Part Inventions
    2 and 3 Part Inventions
    2 and 3 Part Inventions is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on students at its affiliated school, the School of American Ballet, to Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, . The premiere took place on Saturday, June 4th, 1994, at the Juilliard Theater,...
    
    

students from SAB

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

• • A Suite of Dances
    A Suite of Dances
    A Suite of Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Mikhail Baryshnikov to four movements from Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello : *Prelude from Suite I in G major, BWV 1007...
    
    

Nicolas Le Riche

Nicolas Le Riche

Nicolas Le Riche is a French ballet dancer. He entered the Paris Opera Ballet school at age ten and joined the corps de ballet six years later; his first ròle was in Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique. He was promoted to sujet in 1990 and premier danseur in 1991...

• • In Memory of ...
    In Memory of ...
    In Memory of ... is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto of 1935 , based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song and Bach's O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20...
    
    

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

 Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

 replaced Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

 in In Memory of ...

In Memory of ...

In Memory of ... is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto of 1935 , based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song and Bach's O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20...

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Jared Angle

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Philip Glass' Rubric and Façades from Glassworks and excerpts from his opera Akhnaten. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 12th, 1983, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

Rebecca Krohn

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Savannah Lowery

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Tyler Angle

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Ask la Cour

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Wednesday, June 18, Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

's farewell performance

• • Fancy Free

Amanda Hankes

Tiler Peck

Briana Shepherd

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Tyler Angle

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • Rubies from Jewels

Ashley Bouder

Teresa Reichlen

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 replaced Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 in Rubies and in Dances at a Gathering

Dances at a Gathering

Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the music of Chopin: *John Clifford*Robert Maiorano*John Prinz*Edward Villella- 2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration : *Yvonne Borree...

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• • Prodigal Son

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski

Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

Pauline Golbin

Dena Abergel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel

Damian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...

Ask la Cour

Sean Suozzi

Adam Hendrickson

Thursday, June 19

Thursday, June 19 Then and There

• • Thou Swell
    Thou Swell (ballet)
    Thou Swell is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen Kelly with orchestrations Don Sebesky: *"Where or When" *"Manhattan"...
    
    

Sara Mearns Sara Mearns replaced Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

, Rebecca Krohn replaced Sara Mearns, and Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 replaced Janie Taylor in Thou Swell

Thou Swell (ballet)

Thou Swell is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen Kelly with orchestrations Don Sebesky: *"Where or When" *"Manhattan"...

Rebecca Krohn 

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 

Faye Arthurs

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Nilas Martins

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Prodigal Son

Teresa Reichlen

Pauline Golbin

Dena Abergel

Daniel Ulbricht

Ask la Cour

Antonio Carmena

Kyle Froman

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
    • First movement

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Ellen Bar

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Second movement

Sterling Hyltin first time in rôle

Stephen Hanna 

• • • Third movement

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 

Andrew Veyette

• • • Fourth movement

Sara Mearns

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Friday, June 20

• • Mozartiana

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

 Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

 replaced Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 in Mozartiana

Mozartiana

Mozartiana is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine which opened their Tschaikovsky Festival. It is the choreographer's third homage to Mozart and is set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 4, Mozartiana, Op. 61 , consisting of:*Preghiera...

and Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 replaced Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler

Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

 in La Sonnambula

La Sonnambula (ballet)

La Sonnambula is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi and costumes by Karinska...

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Tom Gold

• • Le tombeau de Couperin
    Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)
    Le tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel's 1919 music of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920...
    
    

NYCB ensemble

• • Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fée"

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Faye Arthurs

Alina Dronova

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • La Sonnambula
    La Sonnambula (ballet)
    La Sonnambula is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi and costumes by Karinska...
    
    

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 

Sara Mearns

Rachel Piskin

Lauren King

Ana Sophia Scheller

Sébastien Marcovici 

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Austin Laurent

Troy Schumacher

Vincent Paradiso

Daniel Ulbricht

Saturday, June 21, matinée

• • Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the music of Chopin: *John Clifford*Robert Maiorano*John Prinz*Edward Villella- 2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration : *Yvonne Borree...
    
    

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Sara Mearns

Abi Stafford

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Adam Hendrickson

Jonathan Stafford

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
    

Julie Kent

Gonzalo Garcia

• • The Concert
    The Concert (ballet)
    The Concert is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet's balletmaster, to Chopin's: *Tanaquil LeClercq*Todd Bolender*Yvonne Mounsey*Robert Barnett*Wilma Curley*John Mandia*Shaun O'Brien...
    
    

Sterling Hyltin

Rachel Piskin

Ashley Laracey

Georgina Pazcoguin

Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins

Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...

Andrew Veyette

Tom Gold

Allen Peiffer

Justin Peck

Saturday, June 21, evening

• • Mozartiana

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

 

Tom Gold

• • Le tombeau de Couperin
    Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)
    Le tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel's 1919 music of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920...
    
    

NYCB ensemble

• • Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fée"

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Faye Arthurs

Alina Dronova

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • La Sonnambula
    La Sonnambula (ballet)
    La Sonnambula is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi and costumes by Karinska...
    
    

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 

Sara Mearns

Rachel Piskin

Lauren King

Ana Sophia Scheller

Sébastien Marcovici

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Austin Laurent

Troy Schumacher

Vincent Paradiso

Daniel Ulbricht

Sunday matinée, June 22

• • The Goldberg Variations
    The Goldberg Variations (ballet)
    The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...
    
    

• • • theme

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • • first section

Abi Stafford

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Andrew Veyette

Tyler Angle

Adam Hendrickson

• • • second section

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Jared Angle

Stephen Hanna

Gonzalo Garcia  Gonzalo Garcia replaced Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 in The Goldberg Variations

The Goldberg Variations (ballet)

The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...

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• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

Ashley Bouder 

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

 

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

 

Andrew Veyette 

Tuesday, June 24

• • Thou Swell
    Thou Swell (ballet)
    Thou Swell is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen Kelly with orchestrations Don Sebesky: *"Where or When" *"Manhattan"...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Rebecca Krohn

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Faye Arthurs

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Nilas Martins

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Prodigal Son

Kaitlyn Gilliland first time in rôle

Pauline Golbin

Dena Abergel

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

 

Ask la Cour

Antonio Carmena

Kyle Froman

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

• • • First movement

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Ellen Bar

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Second movement

Sterling Hyltin

Stephen Hanna

• • • Third movement

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

 replaced Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

 in the Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet.

Andrew Veyette

• • • Fourth movement

Sara Mearns

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Wednesday, June 25

• • The Goldberg Variations
    The Goldberg Variations (ballet)
    The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...
    
    

• • • theme

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • • first section

Abi Stafford

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Andrew Veyette

Tyler Angle

Adam Hendrickson

• • • second section

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Jared Angle

Stephen Hanna

Gonzalo Garcia Gonzalo Garcia replaced Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 in The Goldberg Variations

The Goldberg Variations (ballet)

The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...

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• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

Abi Stafford 

Sara Mearns 

Gonzalo Garcia 

Jared Angle 

Thursday, June 26

• • Thou Swell
    Thou Swell (ballet)
    Thou Swell is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the songs of Richard Rodgers in an arrangement by Glen Kelly with orchestrations Don Sebesky: *"Where or When" *"Manhattan"...
    
    

Sara Mearns

Rebecca Krohn

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Faye Arthurs

Jared Angle

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Nilas Martins

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

• • Prodigal Son

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Pauline Golbin

Dena Abergel

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

Ask la Cour

Antonio Carmena

Kyle Froman

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

• • • First movement

Abi Stafford

Savannah Lowery

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

• • • Second movement

Janie Taylor

Jared Angle

• • • Third movement

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Andrew Veyette

• • • Fourth movement

Teresa Reichlen

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard

Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...

Friday, June 27, Dancers' Choice benefit

initiated by Peter Martins

Peter Martins

Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

;

conceived and supervised by Jonathan Stafford;

assisted by Kyle Froman, Craig Hall, Amanda Hankes, Adam Hendrickson, Ask la Cour, Henry Seth and Daniel Ulbricht

• • Rubies excerpt

Ashley Bouder

Ellen Bar 

Daniel Ulbricht 

• • Ecstatic Orange
    Ecstatic Orange
    Ecstatic Orange is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Michael Torke's Verdant Music , Purple and Ecstatic Orange for City Ballet's American Music Festival; the second movement, Purple, was to a score commissioned for the occasion...
    
    excerpt

Purple

Janie Taylor

Craig Hall 

• • Square Dance
    Square Dance (ballet)
    Square Dance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmasterGeorge Balanchine to Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in B minor and the first movement of his Concerto Grosso in E major, Op. 3, nos. 10 and 12, respectively; in 1976 he added Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabanda, Badinerie...
    
    excerpt

Andrew Veyette

• • Emeralds excerpt

Teresa Reichlen 

• • Interplay
    Interplay (ballet)
    Interplay is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, for Billy Rose's Concert Varieties to Morton Gould's 1945 American Concertette...
    
    excerpt

Free Play

Ashley Laracey

Georgina Pazcoguin 

Tiler Peck

Ana Sophia Scheller

Giovanni Villalobos 

Antonio Carmena

Vincent Paradiso 

Christian Tworzyanski 

• • Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering
    Dances at a Gathering is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the music of Chopin: *John Clifford*Robert Maiorano*John Prinz*Edward Villella- 2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration : *Yvonne Borree...
    
    excerpt

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Amanda Hankes 

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

 

Jared Angle

Tyler Angle 

Austin Laurent 

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

• • Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces
    Glass Pieces is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Philip Glass' Rubric and Façades from Glassworks and excerpts from his opera Akhnaten. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 12th, 1983, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    : Akhnaten
    Akhnaten (opera)
    Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten , written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983. Akhnaten had its world premiere on March 24, 1984 at the Stuttgart State Opera, under the German title Echnaton...
    
    excerpt

NYCB ensemble

• • Flit of Fury/The Monarch
    Flit of Fury/The Monarch
    Flit of Fury/The Monarch is a ballet made by New York City Ballet soloist Adam Hendrickson to music by City Ballet corps dancer Aaron Severini for the Spring 2008 Dancers' Choice benefit, which took place on Friday, June 27th, 2008, with women's costume by Magda Berliner, men's costumes by the...
    
    

by Adam Hendrickson

to music composed by Aaron Severini

Gretchen Smith 

Robert Fairchild 

Sean Suozzi 

Allen Peiffer 

David Prottas 

• • Beethoven Romance
    Beethoven Romance
    Beethoven Romance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the composer's Romance in F for violin and orchestra, op. 50...
    
    

Sara Mearns 

Stephen Hanna 

• • Union Jack
    Union Jack (ballet)
    Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca...
    
    excerpt

MacDonald of Sleat

Union Jack (ballet)

Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca...

Savannah Lowery 

NYCB ensemble

• • Stars snd Stripes
    Stars and Stripes (ballet)
    Stars and Stripes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine in 1958, using original music by John Philip Sousa and performed in 5 acts . It lasts an average of 28 minutes...
    
    Third Campaign

3rd Regiment: Thunder and Gladiator

Stars and Stripes (ballet)

Stars and Stripes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine in 1958, using original music by John Philip Sousa and performed in 5 acts . It lasts an average of 28 minutes...

Troy Schumacher 

NYCB ensemble

• • Mercurial Manoeuvres
    Mercurial Manoeuvres
    Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first Artist in Residence Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35 for City Ballet's Diamond Project...
    
    excerpt

Abi Stafford 

Tyler Angle 

• • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (ballet)
    Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
    
    excerpt

Fourth movement and Finale

Tiler Peck

Sterling Hyltin 

Rebecca Krohn 

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Jared Angle

Ask la Cour

Antonio Carmena

Saturday, June 28 matinée

• • Mozartiana

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Daniel Ulbricht

• • Le tombeau de Couperin
    Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)
    Le tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel's 1919 music of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920...
    
    

NYCB ensemble

• • Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fée"

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Faye Arthurs

Alina Dronova

Joaquín De Luz

Joaquin de Luz

Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

• • La Sonnambula
    La Sonnambula (ballet)
    La Sonnambula is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi and costumes by Karinska...
    
    

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree

Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

Sara Mearns

Sébastien Marcovici

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Likolani Brown

Stephanie Zungre

Devin Alberda

Aaron Severini

Alina Dronova

David Prottas David Prottas replaced Craig Hall in La Sonnambula

La Sonnambula (ballet)

La Sonnambula is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi and costumes by Karinska...

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Adam Hendrickson

Saturday, June 28, evening

• • The Goldberg Variations
    The Goldberg Variations (ballet)
    The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...
    
    

• • • theme

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • • first section

Abi Stafford

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

• Amar Ramasar
  Amar Ramasar
  Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...
  
  

Andrew Veyette

Tyler Angle

Adam Hendrickson

• • • second section

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Jared Angle

Stephen Hanna

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 Due to illness or injury Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 and Robert Fairchild replaced Gonzalo Garcia (who was to have replaced Benjamin Millepied; see above) in The Goldberg Variations

The Goldberg Variations (ballet)

The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...

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Robert Fairchild 

• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Andrew Veyette

Sunday matinée, June 29

• • The Goldberg Variations
    The Goldberg Variations (ballet)
    The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...
    
    

• • • theme

Kaitlyn Gilliland

Jason Fowler

Jason Fowler (dancer)

Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...

• • • first section

Abi Stafford

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild

Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar

Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...

Andrew Veyette

Tyler Angle

Adam Hendrickson

• • • second section

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...

Sara Mearns

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Jared Angle

Stephen Hanna

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

 

Robert Fairchild 

• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan

Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...

Philip Neal

Philip Neal

Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

Andrew Veyette

Playbill

Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most Playbills are printed for particular shows to be distributed at the door...

, NYCB 2008

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