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 three-week 2008 Winter tour, beginning at the Kennedy Center

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C...

, Wednesday, February 27, through Sunday, March 2, and finishing at the London Coliseum, Wednesday, March 12, through Saturday, March 22.

Wednesday, February 27

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

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:...

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

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...

Stephen Hanna

• 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

• 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

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

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:...

Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Sean Suozzi

Thursday, February 28

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

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:...

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

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...

Stephen Hanna

• 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

• 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

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

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:...

Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Sean Suozzi

Friday, February 29

• Carousel (A Dance)
  Carousel (ballet)
  Carousel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet resident choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to the music of "Carousel Waltz" and "If I Loved You" by Richard Rodgers, arranged and orchestrated by William David Brohn. The music used in the ballet is from Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical...
  
  

Tiler Peck

Ashley Laracey

Amanda Hankes

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...

Tyler Angle

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• Zakouski

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:...

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

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...

Rebecca Krohn

Jennifer Tinsley

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Sean Suozzi

Tyler 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...

• 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 first time in rôle

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, March 1, matinée

• Carousel (A Dance)

Tiler Peck

Ashley Laracey

Amanda Hankes

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...

Tyler Angle

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• Zakouski

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

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

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...

Rebecca Krohn

Jennifer Tinsley

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Sean Suozzi

Tyler 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...

• 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, March 1, evening

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

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:...

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

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...

Stephen Hanna

• 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

• 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

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

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:...

Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

Sean Suozzi

Sunday, March 2, matinée

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

Janie Taylor 

Ashley Bouder

Kaitlyn Gilliland

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...

Ask la Cour

• 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

• 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

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

Tyler Angle

Sunday, March 2, evening

• Carousel (A Dance)

Tiler Peck

Ashley Laracey

Amanda Hankes

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...

Tyler Angle

Adrian Danchig-Waring

• Zakouski

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:...

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

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...

Rebecca Krohn

Jennifer Tinsley

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Sean Suozzi

Tyler 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...

• 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, March 12, programme 1, Essential Balanchine

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

Janie Taylor

Ashley Bouder

Kaitlyn Gilliland

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...

Ask la Cour

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

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...

Rebecca Krohn

Jennifer Tinsley

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Andrew Veyette

Tyler 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...

• 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

Thursday, March 13, programme 2, Jerome Robbins: An Americon Icon

• 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

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...

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...

Stephen Hanna

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

• 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

Friday, March 14, programme 1

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

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:...

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

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...

Stephen Hanna

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

Megan LeCrone

Rebecca Krohn

Ashley Laracey

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Sean Suozzi

Tyler 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...

• 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

Sterling Hyltin

Antonio Carmena

Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

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, March 15, matinée and evening, programme 2

• 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

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...

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...

Stephen Hanna

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

• 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

Sunday, March 16, matinée, programme 1

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

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:...

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

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...

Stephen Hanna

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

Megan LeCrone

Rebecca Krohn

Ashley Laracey

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Sean Suozzi

Tyler 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...

• 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

Sterling Hyltin

Antonio Carmena

Fourth movement

Tiler Peck

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...

Sunday, March 16, evening, programme 1

• Serenade
  Serenade (ballet)
  Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Tschaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48...
  
  

Janie Taylor

Ashley Bouder

Kaitlyn Gilliland

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...

Ask la Cour

• Agon
  Agon (ballet)
  Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
  
  

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...

Rebecca Krohn

Jennifer Tinsley

Teresa Reichlen

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...

Andrew Veyette

Tyler 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...

• 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

Tuesday, March 18, programme 3, Four Voices: Wheeldon, Martins, Bignozetti, Ratmansky

• Carousel (A Dance)

Tiler Peck

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...

• Zakouski

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....

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....

 guest artist

• In Vento
  In Vento
  In Vento is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti, artistic director of Italy's Aterballetto dance company, to eponymous music of Bruno Moretti. It was commissioned as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project. The premiere took place May 4, 2006, as part of the at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln...
  
  

Teresa Reichlen first time in rôle

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

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

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...

• 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...

Wednesday, March 19, programme 4, Ballet and Broadway: A Musical Celebration

• 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:...

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

Sara Mearns

Jared 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...

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...

• Tarantella
  Tarantella (ballet)
  Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 67 , reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay...
  
  

Ashley Bouder

Daniel Ulbricht

• 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

Abi Stafford

Jonathan Stafford

• • Second movement Adagio

Sterling Hyltin

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

Stephen Hanna

• 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:...

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...

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...

Thursday, March 20, matinée, programme 4

• 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:...

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

Sara Mearns

Jared 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...

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...

• Tarantella
  Tarantella (ballet)
  Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 67 , reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay...
  
  

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

• 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

Abi Stafford

Jonathan Stafford

• • Second movement Adagio

Sterling Hyltin

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

Stephen Hanna

• 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:...

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...

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...

Thursday, March 20, evening, programme 3

• Carousel (A Dance)

Tiler Peck

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...

• Zakouski

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:...

• In Vento
  In Vento
  In Vento is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti, artistic director of Italy's Aterballetto dance company, to eponymous music of Bruno Moretti. It was commissioned as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project. The premiere took place May 4, 2006, as part of the at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln...
  
  

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:...

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...

• 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...

Friday, March 21, programme 3

• Carousel (A Dance)

Tiler Peck

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...

• Zakouski

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:...

• In Vento
  In Vento
  In Vento is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti, artistic director of Italy's Aterballetto dance company, to eponymous music of Bruno Moretti. It was commissioned as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project. The premiere took place May 4, 2006, as part of the at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln...
  
  

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:...

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...

• 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, March 22, matinée, programme 4

• 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:...

Janie Taylor

Faye Arthurs

Sara Mearns

Jared 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...

Tyler Angle

• Tarantella
  Tarantella (ballet)
  Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 67 , reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay...
  
  

Sterling Hyltin

Gonzalo Garcia

• 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

Nilas Martins

• • Second movement Adagio

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

• • 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...

• 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:...

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...

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...

Saturday, March 22, evening, programme 4

• 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:...

Janie Taylor

Faye Arthurs

Sara Mearns

Jared 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...

Tyler Angle

• Tarantella
  Tarantella (ballet)
  Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 67 , reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay...
  
  

Ashley Bouder

Daniel Ulbricht

• 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

Nilas Martins

• • Second movement Adagio

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

• • 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...

• 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:...

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...

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...

External links

• Kennedy Center website

• English National Opera website

• Time Out article, March 11, 2008