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:...

 and tours. Their repertory exceeds 400 ballets, approximately 40 of which are danced each in the winter and spring seasons. This is a list of the dances in the City Ballet repertory:

A

• A la Françaix
• Adams Violin Concerto
  Adams Violin Concerto
  Adams Violin Concerto is a ballet made by Peter Martins, New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief to eponymous music from 1994 by John Adams, commissioned jointly by the Minnesota Orchestra and City Ballet...
  
  
• After the Rain
  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...
  
  
• Afternoon of a Faun
  Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)
  Afternoon of a Faun is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, to Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune...
  
  
• Age of Anxiety
• 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...
  
  
• Alborada del Gracioso
• Allegro Brillante
• An American in Paris
  An American in Paris (ballet)
  An American in Paris is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first resident choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, to eponymous music by George Gershwin from 1928...
  
  
• Ancient Airs and Dances
• Andantino
  Andantino (ballet)
  Andantino, originally titled Pas de Deux, is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the second movement of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23...
  
  
• Antique Epigraphs
  Antique Epigraphs
  Antique Epigraphs is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to an orchestrated version of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques, L131, for piano, four hands, from 1914: *“Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été”...
  
  
• Apollo
  Apollo (ballet)
  Apollo is a ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by balletmaster George Balanchine in 1928, the composer contributing the libretto...
  
  
• Appalachia Waltz
  Appalachia Waltz (ballet)
  Appalachia Waltz is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani to excerpts from Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz and was part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project...
  
  
• Arcade
  Arcade (ballet)
  Arcade is a ballet made by John Taras to Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds . The premiere took place Thursday, March 28th, 1963, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center .- Original Cast : *Suzanne Farrell...
  
  
• Archetypes
• Ash
  Ash (ballet)
  Ash is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Ash by Michael Torke. The premiere took place Thursday, June 20th, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
  
  
• The Astaire Variations
  I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
  I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
  
  

B

• Bach Concerto V
• Backchat
  Backchat (ballet)
  Backchat is a ballet made by Eliot Feld for his Ballet Tech company to "Idle Chatter Junior" by Paul Lansky. The premiere took place October 21, 2004, during the company's MANDANCE PROJECT season at the Joyce Theater, New York...
  
  
• Badchonim
  • Merry-Makers
• Le Baiser de la Fée
  Le Baiser de la fée
  Le baiser de la fée is a ballet in one act and four scenes composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1928 and revised in 1950 for George Balanchine and New York City Ballet. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, Iisjomfruen , it is an homage to Tchaikovsky, making use of several melodies from his...
  
  
• Ballade Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  
• Ballade Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
  
• Ballet d'Isoline
• Ballet Imperial
  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,...
  
  
• Ballo della Regina
  Ballo della Regina
  Ballo della Regina is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, set to music of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos. Its premiere performance was on January 12, 1978, by the New York City Ballet at New York State Theater in Lincoln Center...
  
  
• Barber Violin Concerto
• Baroque Variations
• Bartók No. 3
• Bayou
  Bayou (ballet)
  Bayou is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson's Acadian Songs and Dances...
  
  
• A Beethoven pas de deux
• Beethoven Romance
  Beethoven Romance
  Beethoven Romance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the composer's Romance in F for violin and orchestra, op. 50...
  
  
• Beethoven Seventh
• Behind the China Dogs
• Bet Ann's Dance
• Les Biches
  Les Biches
  Les biches is a ballet by Francis Poulenc, premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1924. The composer, who was at the time relatively unknown, was asked by Serge Diaghilev to write a piece based on Glazunov's Les Sylphides, written seventeen years earlier...
  
  
• Black and White
  Black and White (ballet)
  Black and White is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster, subsequently balletmaster in chief, Peter Martins to some of Michael Torke's eponymous music which was commissioned for City Ballet's American Music Festival; the premiere took place May 7, 1988, at the New York State Theater,...
  
  
• The Bounding Line
• Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (ballet)
  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to the Concert Suite of Richard Strauss with a libretto after Molière...
  
  
• Bournonville Divertissements
• Bourrée fantasque
  Bourrée fantasque
  Bourrée fantasque is a piece of music for solo piano by Emmanuel Chabrier , being one of his last major completed works.-Background:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
• Brandenburg
  Brandenburg (ballet)
  Brandenburg is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to music from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos :*Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048 Allegro **Brandenburg Concerto No...
  
  
• Broken Promise
• Bugaku
  Bugaku (ballet)
  Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on March 30, 1963, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by...
  
  
• Burleske

C

• The Cage
  The Cage (ballet)
  The Cage is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Stravinsky's Concerto in D for string orchestra, the "Basle Concerto" , which he was commissioned to compose on the twentieth anniversary of the Swiss orchestra; it notably shifts between D major and minor...
  
  
• Cakewalk
• Calcium Light Night
• Capriccio Brillante
• Capriccio Italien
• Caracole
• The Card Game
• The Card Party
• Carnival of the Animals
  Carnival of the Animals (ballet)
  Carnival of the Animals is a ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon on New York City Ballet to Camille Saint-Saëns' eponymous music. The narration was written by John Lithgow, who also performed in the premiere, which took place on Wednesday, May 14th, 2003, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Celebration
• Chaconne
  Chaconne (ballet)
  Chaconne is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . The premiere took place Wednesday, January 22nd, 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted...
  
  
• The Chairman Dances
  The Chairman Dances (ballet)
  The Chairman Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' eponymous music from 1985. The music was originally written for Adams' opera, Nixon in China, but not used in production: the scene is that in which Mao Zedong dances with his future...
  
  
• Chamber works
• Chansons Madecasses
• Chants d'Auvergne
• The Chase or The Vixen's Choice
• Chiaroscuro
• Chichester Psalms
  Chichester Psalms (ballet)
  Chichester Psalms is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to eponymous music by Leonard Bernstein. The premiere took place June 2, 2004, at the New York State Theater with performance by the Juilliard Choral Union costumes designed by Catherine Barinas and...
  
  
• Chopiniana
• Choral Variations on Bach's Von Himmel Hoch
• Circle of Fifths
• Circus Polka
  Circus Polka
  Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant was written by Igor Stravinsky in 1942. He composed it for a ballet production the choreographer George Balanchine did for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The ballet was performed by fifty elephants and fifty ballerinas...
  
  
• Clarinade
• Con Amore
• 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...
  
  
  • (or The Perils of Everybody)
    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...
    
    
• Concert Fantasy
• Concerti Armonici
• Concertino Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  
• Concertino Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
  
• Concerto Barocco
  Concerto Barocco
  Concerto Barocco is a ballet made on students at the School of American Ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently balletmaster and co-founder of New York City Ballet, to Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra
• Concerto for Piano and Winds 1972
• Concerto for Piano and Winds 1982
• Concerto for Two Solo Pianos Martins
  Peter Martins
  Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
  
  
• Concerto for Two Solo Pianos Tanner
• Concerto in Five Movements
• Concerto in G
• 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,...
  
  
• Coppélia
• Correlazione
  Correlazione
  Correlazione is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project II to Corelli's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6: No. 1 in D, No. 3 in C Minor, No. 8 in G Minor , and "La Follia" Sonata for Violin in D minor, Op. 5, No. 12...
  
  
• Cortège Hongrois
• Le Creation du Monde
• Creation of the World

D

• Danbury Mix
• Dance Preludes
  Dance Preludes
  Dance Preludes was a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani on New York City Ballet to Witold Lutosławski's 1955 music as a pièce d'occasion for the Dancers' Emergency Fund Benefit, February 24, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Danses Concertantes
• Danses de Cour
• Daphnis and Chloe
• Davidsbündlertänze
• Delibes Divertissement
• Delight of the Muses
  Delight of the Muses
  Delight of the Muses is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master in chief Peter Martins to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen commissioned by City Ballet as part of its commemoration of the bicentennial of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; the composer has taken fragments of...
  
  
• Diamonds
  • from Jewels
    Jewels (ballet)
    Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...
    
    
• Dim Lustre
• Distant Cries
• Divertimento
• Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée
  Le Baiser de la fée
  Le baiser de la fée is a ballet in one act and four scenes composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1928 and revised in 1950 for George Balanchine and New York City Ballet. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, Iisjomfruen , it is an homage to Tchaikovsky, making use of several melodies from his...
  
  
• Divertimento No. 15
• Don Quixote
  Don Quixote (ballet)
  Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
  
  
• Donizetti Variations
• Double Aria
• Double Feature (A Ballet in 2 Acts)
  Double Feature (ballet)
  Double Feature was made by Susan Stroman on New York City Ballet to music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson and a libretto by Ms. Stroman and Glen Kelly with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and arrangement by Mr. Kelly; the libretto for "Makin' Whoopee!" is based on the play Seven Chances,...
  
  
• The Duel
• Duke!
• Dumbarton Oaks
• Duo Concertant
• Dvorák Bagatelles
• Dybbuk
  Dybbuk (ballet)
  Dybbuk is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music and taking S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk as a source...
  
  
• Dybbuk Variations

E

• Ebony Concerto Taras
  John Taras
  John Taras was a prominent American balletmaster and choreographer. Born on the Lower East Side of New York City to Ukrainian parents, he was sent at age 16 to study ballet with Michel Fokine, Anatole Vilzak and Ludmila Shollar, and later to the School of American Ballet...
  
  
• Ebony Concerto 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...
  
  
• Echo
  Echo (ballet)
  Echo is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Michael Torke's Slate . The premiere took place on June 15, 1989, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
  
  
• Ecstatic Orange
  Ecstatic Orange
  Ecstatic Orange is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Michael Torke's Verdant Music , Purple and Ecstatic Orange for City Ballet's American Music Festival; the second movement, Purple, was to a score commissioned for the occasion...
  
  
• Eight Easy Pieces
• Eight Lines
• Eight Miniatures
• Eight More
• Electronics
• Élégie
  Élégie
  Élégie is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's founding balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for solo viola...
  
  
• Emeralds
  • from Jewels
    Jewels (ballet)
    Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...
    
    
• Episodes
  Episodes (ballet)
  Episodes is a two-part ballet made by Martha Graham and George Balanchine to Anton von Webern's Symphony, Op. 21; Five Pieces, Op. 10; Concerto, Op. 24; and the Ricercata in Six Voices from Bach's Musical Offering which Webern had arranged in homage to Bach as Balanchine conceived the ballet as...
  
  
• Episodes and Sarcasms
• Eros Piano
• Étoile Polaire
• Etude for Piano
• Evenfall
• An Evening's Waltzes

F

• The Fairy's Kiss
  Le Baiser de la fée
  Le baiser de la fée is a ballet in one act and four scenes composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1928 and revised in 1950 for George Balanchine and New York City Ballet. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's short story, Iisjomfruen , it is an homage to Tchaikovsky, making use of several melodies from his...
  
  
• Fancy Free
• Fanfare
  Fanfare (ballet)
  Fanfare is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34 in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the premiere took place on Coronation Night, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1953, at City Center of Music and...
  
  
• Fantasies
• Fantasy
• Fearful Symmetries
• The Figure in the Carpet
• Filling Station
• The Filly or A Stable Boy's Dream
• Firebird
  The Firebird
  The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
  
  
• Five
  Five (ballet)
  Five is a ballet made by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux for New York City Ballet's American Music Festival to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen commissioned for the occasion...
  
  
• The Five Gifts
• Flit of Fury / The Monarch
  Flit of Fury/The Monarch
  Flit of Fury/The Monarch is a ballet made by New York City Ballet soloist Adam Hendrickson to music by City Ballet corps dancer Aaron Severini for the Spring 2008 Dancers' Choice benefit, which took place on Friday, June 27th, 2008, with women's costume by Magda Berliner, men's costumes by the...
  
  
• Flötezart
• Flower Festival in Genzano
• A Fool for You
• Four Bagatelles
  Four Bagatelles
  Four Bagatelles is New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins' only ballet made to the music of Beethoven, Bagatelles, op. 33 nos. 4 , 5, and 2 and op. 126 no. 4...
  
  
• Four Chamber Works
• Four Gnossiennes
• Four Last Songs
  Four Last Songs (ballet)
  Four Last Songs is a ballet made by Lorca Massine to Richard Strauss' eponymous music from 1946-48. First presented in 1970 at the workshop of its affiliated School of American Ballet, the New York City Ballet premiere took place on January 21, 1971, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.-...
  
  
• Four Norwegian Moods
• 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...
  
  
• The Four Temperaments
  The Four Temperaments (ballet)
  The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate forerunner of City Ballet...
  
  
• Fred and George
• Friandises

G

• Garland Dance
  Garland dance
  Garland dancing is an English dance tradition that began in the 19th century in North England's mill towns.The Industrial Revolution was centralizing people, bringing rural folk to factory work. As country girls moved to new industrial cities, they brought with them dancing traditions from many...
  
  
• Gaspard de la Nuit
• Les Gentilhommes
  Les Gentilhommes
  Les Gentilhommes is a ballet for nine men made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins to Georg Friedrich Händel's 1739 Concerti Grossi, Opus 6, nos. 9 and 2...
  
  
• Gershwin Piano Concerto
  Gershwin Piano Concerto
  The Gershwin Piano Concerto is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by its balletmaster Jerome Robbins to George Gershwin's 1925 Concerto in F...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Glazounov pas de deux
• Glinka pas de trois
• Glinkiana
• La Gloire
• 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...
  
  
• Gounod Symphony
• 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....
  
  
• Gretry pas de deux
• The Guests
• Guide to Strange Places
• La guirlande de Campra
  La guirlande de Campra
  La guirlande de Campra is collaborative orchestral work written by seven French composers in 1952. It is in the form of variations or meditations on a theme from André Campra's 1717 opera Camille. It was later choreographed as a ballet....
  
  

H

• Haieff Divertimento
• Haiku
• Hallelujah Junction
  Hallelujah Junction (ballet)
  Hallelujah Junction is the eighth ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to the — in this case eponymous — music of John Adams; the duo pianists appear in silhouette above the dancers throughout in Mark Stanley's lighting...
  
  
• Harlequinade
• Harlequinade pas de deux
• Harmonielehre
• Haydn Concerto
• Herman Schmerman
• Hungarian Gypsy Airs
• Huoah

I

• I Have My Own Room
• If by Chance
• Illuminations
• I'm Old Fashioned
  I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
  I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
  
  
  • The Astaire Variations
    I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
    I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
    
    
• Images
  Images (ballet)
  Images is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani for New York City Ballet's first Diamond Project to Debussy's "Gigues" from Images and "Nuages" and" Fetes" from his Nocturnes . The premiere took place May 30...
  
  
• In a Landscape
• In G Major
  In G Major
  In G Major is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's Piano Concerto in G Major . The premiere took place May 15, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Mark Stanley...
  
  
• In Memory of ...
  In Memory of ...
  In Memory of ... is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto of 1935 , based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song and Bach's O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20...
  
  
• In the Blue
• In the Mi(d)st
  In the Mi(d)st
  Editing In the Mist is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani to Oliver Knussen's The Way to Castle Yonder and excerpts from his Music for a Puppet Court and Aaron Jay Kernis' Overture in Feet and Meters...
  
  
• In the Night
  In the Night
  In the Night is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to solo piano music of Chopin: The premiere took place on Thursday, January 29, 1970, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Anthony Dowell and lighting by Jennifer Tipton...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• The Infernal Machine
• Intermezzo No. 1
• 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...
  
  
• Into the Hopper
• Introduction and Allegro for Harp
• Introduction and Fugue
• Irish Fantasy
• Ives, Songs
  Ives, Songs
  Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives: *The Children's Hour*Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant*Waltz*The Cage*The See'r*Two Little Flowers*At the River and Serenity*He is There...
  
  
• Ivesiana
  Ivesiana
  Ivesiana is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Charles Ives' Central Park in the Dark , The Unanswered Question , In the Inn , and In the Night shortly after the composer's death. The premiere took place September 14, 1954, at the City Center of...
  
  

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• Jazz
  • Six Syncopated Movements
• Jazz Concert
• Jeu de cartes
  Jeu de cartes (Martins)
  Jeu de Cartes is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project by balletmaster Peter Martins to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1936. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 28th, 1992, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
  
  
• Jeux
• Jeux d'enfants
• Jewels
  Jewels (ballet)
  Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...
  
  
  • Emeralds
  • Rubies
  • Diamonds
• Jinx
• Jones Beach
• Jubilee!

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• Kaleidoscope
• Kammermusik No. 2
• Klavier
• Kodaly Dances

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• Lady of the Camilias
• Land of Nod
• L'Enfant et les Sortileges
• Liebeslieder Walzer
  Liebeslieder Walzer
  Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe...
  
  
• A Life for the Tsar
• Lifecasting
  Lifecasting (ballet)
  Lifecasting is a ballet made by Douglas Lee on New York City Ballet to the third movement of Ryoji Ikeda's Opus 1 and Steve Reich's Triple Quartet . The premiere took place on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center. Lee has previously made dances for City Ballet’s...
  
  
• Lilac Garden
• Lille Suite
• Liturgy
  Liturgy (ballet)
  Liturgy is a ballet made by New York City Ballet resident choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to music by Arvo Pärt. The premiere took place May 31, 2003 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
  
  
• Lost Sonata

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• Ma Mère L'Oye
• Magic Flute
• The Masquers
• A Mass
• Mazurka from A Life for the Tsar
• Medea
  Medea (Ballet)
  Medea is a composition by American composer, Samuel Barber. Medea's Dance of Vengeance was derived from the work....
  
  
• Meditation
• Menuetto
• Mercurial Manoeuvres
  Mercurial Manoeuvres
  Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first Artist in Residence Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35 for City Ballet's Diamond Project...
  
  
• Mercury
• Metamorphoses
• Metastaseis and Pithoprakta
• Middle Duet
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...
  
  
• Minkus Pas de Trois
• The Minotaur
• The Miraculous Mandarin
• Modern Jazz: Variants
• Monumentum pro Gesualdo
  Monumentum pro Gesualdo
  Monumentum pro Gesualdo is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Igor Stravinsky composed in honor of the 400th birthday of Don Carlo Gesualdo and consisting of Stravinsky's orchestrations of Don Carlo's madrigals...
  
  
• Morgen
• Morphoses
• Mother Goose
  Mother Goose (ballet)
  Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye Suite from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with...
  
  
• Mother Goose Suite
• Movements for Piano and Orchestra
• Moves A Ballet in Silence
  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...
  
  
• Mozart Piano Concertos
  Mozart piano concertos
  The Mozart piano concertos refer to the 27 concertos for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These works, many of which Mozart composed for himself to play in the Vienna concert series of 1784–86, held a special place for him; indeed, Mozart's father apparently interrupted him...
  
  
• Mozart Serenade
• Mozartiana
• Musagète
• A Musical Offering

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• NY Export: Opus Jazz
  NY Export: Opus Jazz
  NY Export: Opus Jazz is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to music of the same title by Robert Prince. The premiere took place June 8, 1958 at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, performed by Ballets: USA and subsequently on Broadway...
  
  
• Narkissos
  Narkissos (ballet)
  Narkissos is a ballet made by Edward Villella to music by Robert Prince, from an idea by William D. Roberts. The premiere took place July 21, 1966, with the New York City Ballet at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY....
  
  
• Native Dancers
• The New Blondes
• The Newcomers
  The Newcomers (ballet)
  The Newcomers is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani to David Diamond's Rounds for String Orchestra ; The premiere took place May 7, 1988, as part of New York City Ballet's American Music Festival at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
  
  
• Night Shadow
• The Nightingale and the Rose
  The Nightingale and the Rose (ballet)
  The Nightingale and the Rose is a ballet made by Christopher Wheeldon to music by Bright Sheng commissioned by the New York City Ballet. The premiere took place on Friday, June 8th, 2007, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, the orchestra conducted by the composer...
  
  
• Noah and the Flood
  Noah and the Flood (ballet)
  Noah and the Flood is a ballet made by George Balanchine, co-founder and balletmaster of the New York City Ballet, and Jacques d'Amboise to Stravinsky's...
  
  
• Les Noces
  Les Noces (Robbins)
  Les Noces is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet balletmaster, to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1923 for American Ballet Theatre with sets by Oliver Smith under supervision of Rosaria Sinisi, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The...
  
  
• The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
  
  

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• Octandre
• Octet
  Octet (Christensen)
  Octet is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by Willam Christensen to Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments . The premiere took place December 2, 1958, at the City Center of Music and Drama.- Original cast : *Barbara Walczak...
  
   Christensen
  Willam Christensen
  Willam Farr Christensen was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is known for bringing the complete version of the Russian ballet The Nutcracker to the United States, as well as staging the first American...
  
  
• Octet
  Octet (Martins)
  Octet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major . The premiere took place November 14, 2003 at the Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen; the NYCB premiere was November 23, 2004, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.-...
  
   Martins
  Peter Martins
  Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
  
  
• Octuor
• Ode
  Ode (ballet)
  Ode is a ballet made by Lorca Massine to eponymous music from 1943 by Igor Stravinsky. The premiere took place June 23, 1972, as part of New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast :...
  
  
• Oltremare
  Oltremare
  Oltremare is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to Bruno Moretti's eponymous music commissioned by New York City Ballet. The premiere took place Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by the choreographer and Marc Happel and lighting by Mark Stanley...
  
  
• Ondine
• Open Strings
• Operetta Affezionata
• 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...
  
  
• Opus 34
• Organon
• Orpheus
  Orpheus (ballet)
  Orpheus is a ballet made by George Balanchine on Ballet Society, which he founded together with Lincoln Kirstein and of which he was ballet master, to eponymous music from 1947 by Igor Stravinsky, his frequent collaborator, with sets and costumes by Isamu Noguchi.The premiere took place on April...
  
  
• Other Dances
  Other Dances
  Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
  
  

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• PAMTGG
• Le Palais de Cristal
  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...
  
  
• Panamerica
• Papillons
• Pas de Deux
  Pas de Deux (d'Amboise)
  Pas de Deux is a ballet made for New York City Ballet by Jacques d'Amboise to Webern's Six pieces for orchestra. The premiere took place May 29, 1969, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast : *Deborah Flomine...
  
   d'Amboise
• 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...
  
   Balanchine
• Pas de Deux
  Andantino (ballet)
  Andantino, originally titled Pas de Deux, is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the second movement of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23...
  
   Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
  
• Pas de Deux and Divertissement
• Pas de Deux Espagnol
• Pas de Deux Romantique
• Pas de Dix
• Pas de Trois Glinka
• Pas de Trois Minkus
  Ludwig Minkus
  Ludwig Minkus a.k.a. Léon Fyodorovich Minkus was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher.Minkus is most noted for the music he composed while serving as Ballet Composer of the St...
  
  
• Pastoral Dances
• Pastorale d'Amboise
• Pastorale Moncion
• Pavane
• Persephone
• Les Petits Riens
• Piano Pieces
  Piano Pieces
  Piano Pieces is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Tschaikovsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the composer's music:*Danse Characteristique, Op. 72, No. 4*Le Paysan Prelude, Op. 39, No. 12*Chanson Populaire, Op. 39, No. 13...
  
  
• Piano–Rag Music
  Piano-Rag-Music (Bolender)
  Piano—Rag Music is a ballet made by Todd Bolender to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1919. The premiere took place on June 23, 1972, as part of New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast :...
  
   Bolender
  Todd Bolender
  Todd Bolender was a renowned ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director. He was an instrumental figure in the creation and dissemination of classical dance and ballet as an American art form...
  
  
• Piano–Rag Music
  Piano-Rag-Music (Martins)
  Piano—Rag Music is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1919. The premiere took place on June 10, 1982, as part of City Ballets's Stravinsky Centennial Celebration‎ at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original...
  
   Martins
  Peter Martins
  Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
  
  
• Piccolo Balletto
• Picnic at Tintagel
• The Pied Piper
• Piege de Lumiere
• Polyphonia
• Poulenc Sonata
• Prague Symphony
• Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
  Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
  Prelude, Fugue and Riffs is a "written-out" jazz-in-concert hall composition written by Leonard Bernstein for a jazz ensemble, which features a solo clarinet....
  
  
• Printemps
  Printemps (ballet)
  Printemps is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by Lorca Massine to Debussy's eponymous music from 1887. The premiere took place on January 13, 1972, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast : *Violette Verdy...
  
  
• Prism
• Prodigal Son
• Prologue
• Pulcinella
• Punch and the Child

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• Quartet
• Quartet for Strings
• Quatuor
• Quiet City

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• Ragtime 1960
  Ragtime (I)
  Ragtime is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's 1918 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen's 1947 work for Ballet Society, Blackface; costumes by...
  
  
• Ragtime 1967
  Ragtime (II)
  Ragtime is the third ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime for Eleven Instruments . The premiere took place on July 15, 1966, at Philharmonic Hall, New York. The first City Ballet performance was on January 17, 1967, at New...
  
  
• Rapsodie Espagnole
  Rapsodie espagnole
  Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel. Composed between 1907 and 1908, the Rapsodie represents one of Ravel's first major works for orchestra....
  
  
• Raymonda Variations
  Raymonda Variations
  Raymonda Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's Raymonda . The premiere took place on December 7, 1961, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, under the title Valses et Variations...
  
  
• Red Angels
• The Red Violin
• Refractions
• Rejouissance
• Reliquary
• Requiem Canticles
  Requiem Canticles (Balanchine)
  Requiem Canticles is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music from 1966 by Igor Stravinsky in memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr. It received a single performance on May 2, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, conducted by...
  
   Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  
• Requiem Canticles
  Requiem Canticles (Robbins)
  Requiem Canticles is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to eponymous music from 1966 by Igor Stravinsky...
  
   Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
  
• Reunions
  Reunions
  Reunions is a public affairs show on Q in the Philippines hosted by Jessica Soho, an award-winning journalist every Sunday...
  
  
• Reveries
  Reveries
  Reveries is the debut studio album by the Swedish band Pacific!, released in 2008 by Dolores Recordings.-Track listing:# "Disappear" - 3:56# "Sunset Blvd" - 4:00# "Runaway to Elsewhere" - 3:55# "Hold" - 4:22# "Break Your Social System" - 3:38...
  
  
• Rhapsody in Blue
• 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...
  
  
• Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze
• 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...
  
  
• Roma
• Romeo † Juliet
  Romeo + Juliet (ballet)
  Romeo † Juliet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet...
  
   Martins
  Peter Martins
  Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
  
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet (Lavery)
  The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet was staged by Sean Lavery, assistant to the balletmaster in chief at New York City Ballet to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet . The premiere took place February 24, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.-NYCB revivals:-Reviews:* review by Eric Taub,...
  
   Lavery
• Rondo
• Rossini pas de deux
• Rossini Quartets
• Rubies
  • from Jewels
    Jewels (ballet)
    Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...
    
    
• 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...
  
  

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• Salome Dances for Peace
• Saltarelli
• Sarabande and Danse
  Sarabande and Danse (Clifford)
  Sarabande and Danse is a ballet made by John Clifford to Debussy's Sarabande and Danse . The premiere took place May 21, 1970, with New York City Ballet at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast :...
  
   Clifford
  John Clifford (choreographer)
  John Clifford, is best known as the creator of “Casablanca, The Dance,” produced by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc. and his Los Angeles Dance Theater, and founder / artistic director of the original Los Angeles Ballet , and the chamber sized touring ensemble, Ballet of Los Angeles...
  
  
• Sarabande and Danse
  Sarabande and Danse (d'Amboise)
  Sarabande and Danse is a ballet made by Jacques d'Amboise to Debussy's Sarabande and Danse . The premiere took place May 29, 1975, as part of New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival at the , Lincoln Center.- Original cast :...
  
   d'Amboise
• Scènes de Ballet
  Scènes de Ballet (Taras)
  Scènes de ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster John Taras to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1944. The premiere took place June 22, 1972, as part of the City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast : *Patricia...
  
   Taras
  John Taras
  John Taras was a prominent American balletmaster and choreographer. Born on the Lower East Side of New York City to Ukrainian parents, he was sent at age 16 to study ballet with Michel Fokine, Anatole Vilzak and Ludmila Shollar, and later to the School of American Ballet...
  
  
• Scènes de Ballet
  Scènes de Ballet (Wheeldon)
  Scénes de ballet was made on students from the School of American Ballet by Christopher Wheeldon to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1944 and is Wheeldon's second work for NYCB...
  
   Wheeldon
  Christopher Wheeldon
  Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
  
  
• Scherzo à la Russe
  Scherzo a la russe
  "Scherzo à la russe", Op. 1, No. 1, is part of the first published work of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Two Pieces for Piano, Op. 1.It is based on a Ukrainian folk tune in B-flat major. It was first called Capriccio but was later changed to "Scherzo à la russe". The other piece in the work was...
  
  
• Scherzo Fantastique
• Scherzo Opus 42
• Schoenberg Variations
• Schoenberg / Wuorinen Variations
• A Schubert Sonata
• A Schubertiad
• Scotch Symphony
• 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...
  
  
• Serenade en La
• Serenade in A
• Set of Seven
• Seven by Five Plus Two
• The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Sloth
  • Pride
  • Anger
  • Gluttony
  • Lust
  • Avarice
  • Envy
• Shadow'd Ground
• Shadows
• Shambards
• Sheherazade
• A Simple Symphony
• Sinfonia
• Sinfonia Mistica
• Sinfonietta
• A Sketch Book
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical comedy On Your Toes. Slaughter is the story of a hoofer who falls in love with a dance hall girl who is then shot and killed...
  
  
• Slavonic Dances
• The Sleeping Beauty
• Slice to Sharp
  Slice to Sharp
  Slice to Sharp is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project by Jorma Elo to music of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Antonio Vivaldi. The premiere took place June 16, 2006, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Mark Stanley and costumes by Holly...
  
  
• Slonimsky's Earbox
• Soirée
• Sonatas and Interludes
• Sonate di Scarlatti
  Sonate di Scarlatti
  Sonate di Scarlatti; originally titled Tivoli, Giardino Di Scarlatti; is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata Nos. 164, 424. 188, 335, 104, 483, 349, 3, 23, 209, 465...
  
  
• Sonatine
• The Song of the Nightingale
• Songs of the Auvergne
• La Sonnambula
  La Sonnambula (ballet)
  La Sonnambula is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi and costumes by Karinska...
  
  
• Sophisticated Lady
• La Source
  La source (Balanchine)
  La Source is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by its founding balletmaster George Balanchine. The premiere took place on November 23, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
  
  
• Souvenir de Florence
• Souvenirs
• Space
• The Spellbound Child
• Square Dance
  Square Dance (ballet)
  Square Dance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmasterGeorge Balanchine to Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in B minor and the first movement of his Concerto Grosso in E major, Op. 3, nos. 10 and 12, respectively; in 1976 he added Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabanda, Badinerie...
  
  
• Stabat Mater
• A Stair Dance
• Stars and Stripes
  Stars and Stripes (ballet)
  Stars and Stripes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine in 1958, using original music by John Philip Sousa and performed in 5 acts . It lasts an average of 28 minutes...
  
  
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier
  The Steadfast Tin Soldier (ballet)
  The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Bizet's Jeux d'enfants , Op. 22, Nos. 6, 3, 11 and 12....
  
  
• Steel and Rain
• The Still Point
  The Still Point
  The Still Point is a 2010 novel by British author Amy Sackville. The book was Sackville's debut novel, and was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize...
  
  
• La stravaganza
  La stravaganza
  La stravanganza is a set of concertos, op. 4, written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1712-1713. The set was first published in 1714 and was dedicated to a Venetian nobleman Signor Vettor Delfino...
  
  
• Stravinsky Symphony in C
• Stravinsky Violin Concerto
• Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat
• A Suite of Dances
  A Suite of Dances
  A Suite of Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Mikhail Baryshnikov to four movements from Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello : *Prelude from Suite I in G major, BWV 1007...
  
  
• Suite of Dances
  • (from Dybbuk Variations)
• Summerspace (A Lyric Dance)
• Swan Lake
  Swan Lake (Balanchine)
  Swan Lake is a one-act ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine after Lev Ivanov to Tschaikovsky'seponymous music...
  
   Balanchine
  George Balanchine
  George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
  
  
• Swan Lake
  Swan Lake (Martins)
  Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...
  
   Martins
  Peter Martins
  Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
  
  
• Swerve Poems
• Sylvia pas de deux
• Symphonic Dances
• Symphonie concertante
• 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...
  
  
• Symphony in E flat
  Symphony in E flat (ballet)
  Symphony in E flat is a ballet made by John Clifford to Stravinsky's Symphony in E flat, op. 1 . The premiere took place as part of City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival, June 20th, 1972, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 1 (ballet)
  Symphony No. 1 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Tschaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, Winter Dreams...
  
  
• Symphony No. 6 Pathetique

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• Tala Gaisma
• Tango
  Tango (Balanchine)
  Tango is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Stravinsky's Tango for Piano Forte arranged 1953 by the composer...
  
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• Tango
  Tango (Martins)
  Tango is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Stravinsky's Tango for Piano Forte arranged 1953 by the composer. The premiere took place September 14, 1983 at Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen; the NYCB premiere was in February, 1984.- Original cast : *Heather...
  
   Martins
  Peter Martins
  Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
  
  
• Tanzspiel
• 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...
  
  
• Tea–Rose
• Telemann Overture Suite in E Minor
• Tempo di Valse
• Tender Night
• Them Twos
• Theme and Variations
  Theme and Variations (ballet)
  Theme and Variations is a ballet by George Balanchine to the final movement of Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55 . The premiere took place November 26, 1947, with Ballet Theatre at City Center of Music and Drama. Theme and Variations was conceived specially for Alicia...
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• Three Preludes
  Three Preludes (ballet)
  Three Preludes is a ballet made on Mikhail Baryshnikov by Mark Morris to eponymous music by George Gershwin for his own company and presented as a piece d'occasion by the New York City Ballet...
  
  
• Time Table
• Tivoli
  Sonate di Scarlatti
  Sonate di Scarlatti; originally titled Tivoli, Giardino Di Scarlatti; is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata Nos. 164, 424. 188, 335, 104, 483, 349, 3, 23, 209, 465...
  
  
• Todo Buenos Aires
• Le tombeau de Couperin
  Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)
  Le tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel's 1919 music of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920...
  
  
• Touch
  Touch (ballet)
  Touch is a ballet made by David Parsons on the New York City Ballet to music by Richard Peaslee. The premiere took place February 15th, 1996, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast : *Stacey Calvert*Michele Gifford...
  
  
• Tributary
  Tributary (ballet)
  Tributary is a ballet made by Robert La Fosse and Robert Garland to Mozart's Divertimento No. 11 in D, K. 251 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 25th, 2000, as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast : *Kyra...
  
  
• Tribute
  Tribute (ballet)
  Tribute is a ballet made by Christopher d'Amboise to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The première took place Saturday, June 4th, 2005, at the School of American Ballet workshop performance, Juilliard Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
  
  
• Tricolore
  Tricolore (ballet)
  Tricolore is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, conceived and supervised by City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine, to music by Georges Auric, commissioned by the company in 1978...
  
  
• Triptych Strings Percussion Celesta
  Triptych (ballet)
  Triptych is a ballet made by Christopher d'Amboise, to Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project...
  
  
• Trois valses romantiques
  Trois valses romantiques
  The Trois valses romantiques are a set of three pieces for two pianos by Emmanuel Chabrier.-History:Chabrier began the composition in mid 1880, completing the first two; the third was not completed until the summer of 1883...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Tschaikovsky pas de quatre
• 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,...
  
  
• Tschaikovsky Suite No. 1
• Tschaikovsky Suite No. 2
• Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
  Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
  Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55...
  
  
• Twilight
• Twilight Courante
• Two– and Three–Part Inventions
  2 and 3 Part Inventions
  2 and 3 Part Inventions is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on students at its affiliated school, the School of American Ballet, to Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, . The premiere took place on Saturday, June 4th, 1994, at the Juilliard Theater,...
  
  
• Two Birds with the Wings of One
  Two Birds with the Wings of One
  Two Birds with the Wings of One is a ballet made by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project to two poems from the Sung Dynasty and "Chi Lin's Dance" from Flute Moon by Bright Sheng...
  
  
• Two's Company
• Tyl Ulenspiegel
• Tzigane

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• Ugha Bugha
• The Unanswered Question
  The Unanswered Question (ballet)
  The Unanswered Question: Some Intimations of the American Composer Charles Ives is a ballet made by Eliot Feld to Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question, Calcium Light Night, Fugue in Four Keys, Mists, From the Housatonic at Stockbridge, Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin , Remembrance and An Old...
  
  
• Une Barque Sur L'Ocean
• The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
  The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
  The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore or, The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers, and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists of a prologue and 12 madrigals...
  
  
  • or, The Three Sundays of a Poet
    The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
    The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore or, The Three Sundays of a Poet is a "madrigal fable" for chorus, ten dancers, and nine instruments with music and original libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Based on the 16th century Italian madrigal comedy genre, it consists of a prologue and 12 madrigals...
    
    
• Union Jack
  Union Jack (ballet)
  Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca...
  
  
• Untitled
• Urban Dances

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• La Valse
• Valse Fantaisie 1953
• Valse–Fantaisie 1967
• Valse Triste
  Valse Triste (ballet)
  Valse Triste is a ballet made by New York City Ballet then balletmaster Peter Martins to Sibelius's eponymous waltz as well as Scene with Cranes from his incidental music for the play Kuolema . the crane being a symbol of death in Finnish literature...
  
  
• Valses et Variations
• Variants
• Variations
  Variations (ballet)
  Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Stravinsky's Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam...
  
  
• Variations for Orchestra
  Variations for Orchestra
  Variations for Orchestra is the last ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam . The premiere took place on Friday, July 2, 1982, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Reviews :*],...
  
  
• Variations from Don Sebastian
• Variations on a Nursery Song
• Variations on I'm Old Fashioned
  I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
  I'm Old Fashioned is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16,...
  
  
• Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir
• Variations sérieuses
• Vespro
  Vespro
  Vespro is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to eponymous music of Bruno Moretti, commissioned by New York City Ballet. The première took place Saturday, May 8th, 2002, as part of Diamond Project V at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
  
  
• Vienna Waltzes
  Vienna Waltzes
  Vienna Waltzes is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss, Jr., Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss:...
  
  
• Viola Alone ...
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• Violin Concerto
• Viva Verdi

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• 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...
  
  
• Walton Cello Concerto
• The Waltz Project
• Waltz Trilogy
• Waltz–Scherzo
• Watermill
  Watermill (ballet)
  Watermill is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Teiji Ito's eponymous music from the previous year with costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, lighting by Jennifer Tipton and décor by Robbins in association with Davie Reppa...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Who Cares?
  Who Cares? (ballet)
  Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...
  
  
• Will o' the Wisp
• The Witch
  The Witch (ballet)
  The Witch is a ballet made by John Cranko to Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major . The premiere took place Friday, August 18th, 1950, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.- Original Cast : *Melissa Hayden...
  
  
• Woodland Sketches
  Woodland Sketches
  Woodland Sketches is a ballet made by Robert La Fosse to Edward MacDowell's eponymous music from 1896 for New York City Ballet's American Music Festival...
  
  

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