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 Summer season at Saratoga Performing Arts Center

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...

 in Saratoga Springs Tuesday, July 8, to Saturday, July 26.

Tuesday, July 15

• • 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

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. ...

Antonio Carmena

Adam Hendrickson

Spring

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

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...

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

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:...

Daniel Ulbricht

• • 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 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

Austin Laurent

Allen Peiffer

Justin Peck

Wednesday, July 16

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

first movement

Abi Stafford

Ellen Bar

Jonathan Stafford first time in rôle

second movement:

Tiler Peck 

Robert Fairchild 

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

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...

• • 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...

Adam Hendrickson

Antonio Carmena

Troy Schumacher

• • 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...
    
    

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...
    
    

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...

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:...

Gonzalo Garcia

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:...

Thursday, July 17, matinée

• • 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

• • 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

Giovanni Villalobos

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • Grazioso
    Grazioso (ballet)
    Grazioso is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by Peter Martins, its balletmaster-in-chief, to music by Mikhail Glinka. The premiere took place at City Ballet's fall gala, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Gonzalo Garcia

Daniel Ulbricht

Andrew Veyette

• • 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

Austin Laurent

Allen Peiffer

Justin Peck

Thursday, July 17, evening

• • Mozartiana

Sara Mearns first time in rôle

Jared Angle 

Daniel Ulbricht

• • 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...
    
    

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...

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:...

Gonzalo Garcia

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:...

• • 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...

Friday, July 18

• • 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:...

• • 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 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

Sterling Hyltin

Antonio Carmena

Adam Hendrickson

Spring

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

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...

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

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, July 19, matinée

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

first movement

Abi Stafford

Ellen Bar

Jonathan Stafford

second movement

Tiler Peck

Robert Fairchild

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

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...

• • 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

Giovanni Villalobos

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • Grazioso
    Grazioso (ballet)
    Grazioso is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by Peter Martins, its balletmaster-in-chief, to music by Mikhail Glinka. The premiere took place at City Ballet's fall gala, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
    
    

Ashley Bouder

Gonzalo Garcia

Daniel Ulbricht

Andrew Veyette

• • 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

Austin Laurent

Allen Peiffer

Justin Peck

Saturday, July 19, evening, gala

• • 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

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...

Jared Angle

• • 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

• • 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, July 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

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...

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

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

• • 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

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

Andrew Veyette

Wednesday, July 23

• • 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...
    
    

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...

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:...

Gonzalo Garcia

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 first time in rôle

t.b.a.

• • 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

Sterling Hyltin

Albert Evans

Albert Evans

Albert Evans , was a British Labour Party politician.A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936...

third movement: Rondo

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...

Thursday, July 24, matinée

• • 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

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...

Jared Angle

• • 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:...

• • Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
    Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
    The Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to an excerpt from Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act III, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
    
    

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:...

• • 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

Sterling Hyltin

Albert Evans

Albert Evans

Albert Evans , was a British Labour Party politician.A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936...

third movement: Rondo

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...

Thursday, July 24, evening

• • 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:...

• • 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

Robert Fairchild

• • 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

Jenifer Ringer

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:...

Justin Peck 

Andrew Veyette

Friday, July 25

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

first movement

Abi Stafford

Ellen Bar

Jonathan Stafford

second movement

Tiler Peck

Robert Fairchild

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

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...

• • 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

Giovanni Villalobos

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• • 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

Saturday, July 26, matinée

• • 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

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...

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

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

• • 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

Sterling Hyltin

Albert Evans

Albert Evans

Albert Evans , was a British Labour Party politician.A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936...

third movement: Rondo

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...

Saturday, July 26, evening

• • 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

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. ...

Christian Tworzyanski

Sean Suozzi

Spring

Sara Mearns

Jared Angle

Summer

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

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

• • 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

• • 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

Jenifer Ringer

Gretchen Smith

Robert Fairchild

Justin Peck

Andrew Veyette

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