New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company’s first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946.
The quintessential piano ballet, Dances at a Gathering distills the spectrum of human interaction into the most natural of movements, a landmark for its invention, virtuosity, and constantly shifting emotions. Dances at a Gathering, which premiered in 1969, heralded Jerome…
The Digital Season is a festival of 21st century choreographers, made up of excerpts of some of NYCB contemporary repertoire, including:
Choreographer Kyle Abraham returns to premiere his third creation for NYCB, created at a three-week COVID-compliant residency bubble at the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, NY. After the residency period, this new work – featuring dancers India Bradley, Jonathan Fahoury,…
Expansive in scope and streamlined in style, Glass Pieces captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its charged, urban choreography, concluding in a finale that propels the corps de ballet across the stage at an electrifying pace. Although Philip…
An American neoclassical dance festival with works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins – a new combination of works from the Wiener Staatsballett repertoire with the addition of the first Staatsballett performance of “A Suite of Dances”. For George Balanchine,…
Liturgy This contemplative pas de deux has a hushed, mystical quality as two dancers separate and return to one another with ever increasing intensity before disappearing into the darkness together. Arvo Pärt, an Estonian composer born in 1935, has created…
Conceived in the midst of the pandemic that has swept the globe, choreographer William Forsythe, New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Tiler Peck, and CLI Studios present The Barre Project (Blake Works II). Choreographed for film, with the feel of…
