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 David H. Koch 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 2009 Fall tour to Bunkamura

Bunkamura

The Bunkamura is a concert hall, theater and museum located in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyu Group.- Venues :The four main venues are:*Orchard Hall: 2,150 seats*Theatre Cocoon: 747 seats*The Museum - Changing art exhibits...

in Tokyo, beginning Thursday, October 8, and ending Monday, October 12.

Thursday, October 8

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
• Sara Mearns

• Robert Fairchild
• 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
• Ashley Laracey
• Teresa Reichlen

• Sébastien Marcovici
• Sean Suozzi
• 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...
  
  
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

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...

• 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:...
  
  

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

Friday, October 9

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...
  
  

• Adrian Danchig-Waring

• Ana Sophia Scheller

• 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:...
  
  

Barber Violin Concerto

• Sara Mearns

• Jared Angle

• 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. ...
  
  

• Ask la Cour

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...

• Tiler Peck

• Daniel Ulbricht

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (ballet)

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine on his earlier company, American Ballet Caravan to eponymous music from 1879–80. The premiere took place on May 29, 1941, at Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro,...

• Ashley Bouder

• Jonathan Stafford

• Teresa Reichlen

• Sean Suozzi

• Faye Arthurs
• Ashley Laracey

• Christian Tworzyanski

Saturday, October 10, matinée

Walpurgisnacht Ballet

Walpurgisnacht Ballet

Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's 1859 Faust at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra including the additional ballet music from 1869...

• 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....
  
  
• Ana Sophia Scheller
• Lauren King
• Alina Dronova

• 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...
  
  

After the Rain (pas de deux)

After the Rain (ballet)

After the Rain is a ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon on New York City Ballet to music of Arvo Pärt; Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel. The premiere took place on Saturday, January 22nd, 2005, 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...
  
  

• Sébastien Marcovici

Dances at a Gathering

Dances at a Gathering

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

• Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....
  
  
• Jenifer Ringer
• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  
• Sara Mearns
• Kathryn Morgan

• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  
• Jared Angle
• Sébastien Marcovici
• Antonio Carmena
• Jonathan Stafford

Symphony in 3 Movements

• Abi Stafford
• Sterling Hyltin
• Megan LeCrone

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

Saturday, October 10, 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:...
  
  
• Sterling Hyltin
• Kaitlyn Gilliland

• 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...
  
  
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

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...

• 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....
  
  
• Rebecca Krohn
• Ashley Laracey
• Teresa Reichlen

• Sébastien Marcovici
• Sean Suozzi
• 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...
  
  
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

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

• Jared Angle

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:...
  
  
• Justin Peck
• Andrew Veyette

Sunday, October 11, matinée

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...
  
  

• Adrian Danchig-Waring

• Ana Sophia Scheller

• 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:...
  
  

Barber Violin Concerto

• Sara Mearns

• Jared Angle

• 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. ...
  
  

• Ask la Cour

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...

• Tiler Peck

• Daniel Ulbricht

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (ballet)

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine on his earlier company, American Ballet Caravan to eponymous music from 1879–80. The premiere took place on May 29, 1941, at Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro,...

• Ashley Bouder

• Jonathan Stafford

• Teresa Reichlen

• Sean Suozzi

• Faye Arthurs
• Ashley Laracey

• Christian Tworzyanski

Sunday, October 11, evening

Walpurgisnacht Ballet

Walpurgisnacht Ballet

Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's 1859 Faust at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra including the additional ballet music from 1869...

• 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....
  
  
• Ana Sophia Scheller
• Lauren King
• Alina Dronova

• 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...
  
  

After the Rain (pas de deux)

After the Rain (ballet)

After the Rain is a ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon on New York City Ballet to music of Arvo Pärt; Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel. The premiere took place on Saturday, January 22nd, 2005, 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...
  
  

• Sébastien Marcovici

Dances at a Gathering

Dances at a Gathering

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

• Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....
  
  
• Jenifer Ringer
• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  
• Sara Mearns
• Kathryn Morgan

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  
• Jared Angle
• Sébastien Marcovici
• Antonio Carmena
• Jonathan Stafford

Symphony in Three Movements

Symphony in Three Movements

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

• Abi Stafford
• Sterling Hyltin
• Megan LeCrone

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

Monday, October 12, 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
• Sara Mearns

• Robert Fairchild
• 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
• Ashley Laracey
• Teresa Reichlen

• Sébastien Marcovici
• Sean Suozzi
• 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...
  
  
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

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...

• Tiler Peck

• 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
• Jenifer Ringer
• Gretchen Smith

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

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