| 单词 | Balanchine |
| 例句 | “Michaela, what a clever little girl you are! This is the Balanchine Nutcracker, performed by the New York City Ballet!” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I had already memorized the choreography of the Balanchine Nutcracker, so I expected to come out of class dancing like a real ballerina. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z To her shock, in May, City Ballet put on a digital spring gala featuring a mainly white cast, particularly in an excerpt from Balanchine’s “Divertimento No. 15.” The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z George Balanchine throws up his arms in exasperation at the sight of a dancer executing a step incorrectly at the barre. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z New York City Ballet, venerable keeper of the flame of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, has canceled its spring season and spring gala, and projects an $8 million hit. New York is one of the world’s great cities for the arts — but the damage from the pandemic is proving to be catastrophic 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Sara Mearns, at her most ardent and expansive, and Jared Angle led a bright, breezy account of George Balanchine’s “Allegro Brillante,” the first work danced by City Ballet that opening night. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z The Cunningham of that era often seemed to be conducting a private dialogue with the two choreographers who influenced him most, and from whose idioms he departed most strongly: Martha Graham and George Balanchine. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z For about a decade now, seeing “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” at New York City Ballet has been the enchanting kickoff of the Christmas season for my teenage daughter and me. Day 15: Finding Christmas Joy in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “I only knew how elated I felt every time I watched Balanchine.” Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z But it has now been a post-Balanchine company for as long as it was a Balanchine company — 35 years. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z And as for Balanchine, she has been a radiant interpreter of many of the most privileged roles in his repertory, dancing the leads in “Apollo,” “Serenade,” “Agon,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Emeralds,” “Diamonds.” Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Comparable images of the complexity of male-female relations pervade other Balanchine ballets. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z “And of course everybody felt this hole in the absence of Balanchine.” Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z While Balanchine was in Copenhagen, a Danish court invalidated the Wegeners’ marriage. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I find that Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballets made after Stravinsky’s death in 1971 are even better than the more famous ones he made during Stravinsky’s lifetime. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z With a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, she presents deconstructed installments of works by Vaslav Nijinsky, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham and Bob Fosse, as well as a response to George Balanchine’s “Agon.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z She triumphed as the female lead in Balanchine’s “Scotch Symphony” at the annual Workshop Performances. At New York City Ballet, the Good, the Bad and the Ruby 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Last spring, as Oberon in Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” he was sleek and dazzling. Once ‘Little Joe,’ Now a Reigning New York City Ballet Principal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Pinafore” by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and a program of Balanchine and Twyla Tharp by the Miami City Ballet. | PBS Arts Fall Festival: PBS Festival Features New ?H.M.S Pinafore? - Review 2011-10-13T22:16:47Z Mr. Balanchine was an observer, and he loved the differences between people. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Balanchine made so many revisions to his “Swan Lake” over the decades that it seems to have been a work in progress. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “Agon” is a coherent suite, but Balanchine’s choreography for “Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3” is really a sampler. Dance Review: City Ballet Classics, Including ?Agon? at Koch Theater 2012-02-19T22:21:20Z There was a critic who said Lypsinka performs with the precision of a Balanchine dancer. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Balanchine spoke of imagery in other ballets, too. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Tuesday night, you can see these knotty concoctions back to back, between two Balanchine ballets. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Above all, the season firmly placed this troupe at the forefront of all those dancing choreography by George Balanchine today. Miami City Ballet, Dancing Balanchine, Raises the Bar in New York 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z But Balanchine’s interpretation goes the opposite way, providing instead a divertissement in which nameless dancers become, especially in a long supported adagio for one woman and her partner, a perfect allegory of romantic-chivalrous love. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z In 1979, the critic David Vaughan wrote that Ashton, Balanchine and Merce Cunningham were “the ABC of contemporary classicism” — a credo to which I have adhered ever since. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z As with the three-company performances of Balanchine’s “Jewels” last year, dancers from different traditions will bring out different facets of Balanchine style — all illuminating but not all equal. Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It was Igor Stravinsky’s birthday, and George Balanchine wanted to give his dear friend a gift. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z But there are some palate cleansers, too: Here/Now is bookended by classics from George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. New York City Ballet Kicks Off a Bustling Spring Season 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “I was horrified, but Balanchine just said, ‘it’s OK, we’ll do something else.’” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z In rehearsals, Balanchine kept saying, “Don’t put your heels down!” When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Still, Balanchine was often pushing away from Shakespeare here — and the chief clue to this is his choice of music. Review: New York City Ballet, With Heartfelt Pas de Deux, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It will showcase City Ballet performing several Balanchine works set to the music of French composers. A Too-Rare Chance to See City Ballet’s Current Stars Dance on Television 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z She joined New York City Ballet at 16, becoming a principal dancer in 1984 and performing numerous roles in the works of Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. ArtsBeat: New Director Imminent for Miami City Ballet 2012-04-02T21:18:33Z This, Balanchine made clear to his interpreters, is the call from Zeus — Apollo’s father and the king of the gods. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The company’s first performance will take place on Sept. 20 with a program of dances by George Balanchine. Raises and Safety Protections in City Ballet Dancers’ New Contract 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In the late 1920s, "Apollo" marked an early collaboration between artistic titans George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky. 17 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, April 8-14 2012-04-04T23:29:04Z But the departed masters Balanchine and Robbins are represented by rarities, and a classic with a missing piece restored. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z These run the gamut from George Balanchine’s “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” with music by Richard Rodgers, to Justin Peck’s recent “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes,” set to classic Aaron Copeland. Dance Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Farley, who serves on the board of the George Balanchine Foundation, will continue his work on the company’s podcast. Retiring From Ballet at 26? Dancing Can Get You Only So Far 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Balanchine didn’t use counts as much as rhythms when demonstrating the steps, she said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z In this way, “Haieff” isn’t a hokey testament to the human spirit — it’s a testament to Balanchine and to what drove him to create: the unattainable woman. It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z In his autobiography, Taylor said he had asked Balanchine if there was any way it should be performed. Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s a sign, Balanchine said, that someone is really going for it. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z On Friday night she made her debut as the Sleepwalker, the title role in “La Sonnambula,” George Balanchine’s ballet. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z The choreographer George Balanchine is seldom listed among the 20th century’s great dramatists, and yet many of his ballets take us as close to the essence of drama as any playwright. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Two tall women bring the precision and speed of the Balanchine training: Savannah Lowery is a New York City Ballet soloist on leave for the tour, and Kaitlyn Gilliland spent years with that company. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Most Martins ballets, even “Ash,” look heartless, slick, callow — qualities that characterized the company’s Balanchine dancing in its long post-Balanchine doldrums. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z She also became entranced with an article in her mother’s Vogue magazine in which she learned how Balanchine chose a different perfume for each of his favorite dancers. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z In those days it was breakthrough enough to have the Russian company dance Balanchine at all — and so well. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z George Balanchine once said: “Put 16 women on the stage, and it’s everybody — it’s the world. Put 16 men on, and it’s always nobody.” A Lesson for New York City Ballet: The Past Is Always Present 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z “Some of that is precision, grace, the beauty of the line,” Mr. Bauman continued, noting that for the great choreographer George Balanchine “the most beautiful part of the dancer’s body was the hand.” These N.B.A. Dancers Bring Their High Kicks Courtside 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z George Balanchine’s one-act “Swan Lake” returns on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, on a triple bill with his “Allegro Brillante” and “The Four Temperaments.” Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In each case the curtain rises to show dancers standing still while the music plays: a favorite Balanchine method. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z George Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. " is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. English National Ballet ? review 2011-03-24T22:00:02Z That star power today arises from the free-spirited nature of her dancing as well as the way her name is so strongly linked to Balanchine’s. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z This brings us to a more depressing side of Mr. Martins’s work as ballet master in chief: too many Balanchine ballets have grown gray and small under his supervision. In City Ballet?s Season One Jewel Still Sparkles 2010-03-01T05:54:00Z She once performed Balanchine’s “Apollo” with Igor Stravinsky conducting his own music; the two men toasted each other with vodka during orchestra breaks. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet On Thursday evening at the David H. Koch Theater, three principal dancers evoked their assertive harmony or individuality in a program of ballets by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Balanchine and Robbins Program 2012-01-27T22:23:54Z She was the final dancer chosen for the company by George Balanchine himself. Review: ‘Girl Through Glass’ leaps to the peak of the dance world 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The American city most hungry for ballet was Philadelphia, she told Balanchine that evening. Boston, Pennsylvania ballets have many similarities at 50 “One day there weren’t enough dancers for ‘Divertimento No. 15,’ but Balanchine insisted we went on with whoever there was. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z We also see him alone in his apartment, sitting under a poster of Balanchine and looking at what he's recorded on his computer screen. 'Ballet 422' shows the creative process on a tight deadline 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein started the school before they founded City Ballet — “But first, a school,” Balanchine reportedly said — and the school remains central to the company’s ethos. Who Should Run City Ballet? A Job Posting, Explained 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Balanchine, sometimes called the Mozart of choreographers for his mastery of satisfying formal complexity and enthralling harmony, tackled several Mozart scores. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z There is the famous quote from Balanchine: “Ballet is Woman.” Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The waltz for the children in Act III of “Coppélia” immediately establishes the multiple layers of Balanchine’s musicality. ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ to Air ‘Curtain Up’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The company’s winter season opened on Tuesday with an all-Balanchine program, and over the next six weeks it will dance 27 ballets, 12 of them by Balanchine. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z “My life and career,” she promises, “provide a clear lens for understanding George Balanchine’s choreographic practice … simply because my career was not clouded by scandal or serious trauma.” Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z While “The Sleeping Beauty” offers moments for dancers to shine — its highlight remains George Balanchine’s contribution, the gloriously musical “Garland Dance” — it is still a Martins ballet. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In Balanchine’s case, there are a number of former dancers who, under the auspices of the Balanchine Trust, teach his ballets around the globe. Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z How could it be that the ballet that felt most truly alive — though it was choreographed in 1947 — was Balanchine’s “Symphony in C”? Review: At New York City Ballet, an Intriguing Glimpse of the Future 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “I will never, ever let go of our Balanchine roots,” Garland said. Dance Theater of Harlem Names a New Artistic Director 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z We did Balanchine like it was coming out of our ears. Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z There was no end of pleasure in this program, which included an incandescent production of Antony Tudor’s “Pillar of Fire” and a shining if slightly blurred “Theme and Variations” by Balanchine. A sparkling start to American Ballet Theatre’s D.C. engagement 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Miller, so exquisite in her expansive use of her upper body, needs to acquire more lower-body strength if she’s to become the ballerina of central Balanchine roles, for which she seems otherwise ideal. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z In the fall, Balanchine told the company manager, Betty Cage, that the festival must open on Stravinsky’s 90th birthday, and the theater would have to go dark for a week beforehand. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Sorry to be a pain,” Mr. Litton said at one point, as the ensemble traversed a score that had been rearranged in places by the choreographer George Balanchine, City Ballet’s co-founder and guiding spirit. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z This year, its 40th, the program features a full spectrum of dance, from Balanchine to the New York underground movement in the 1990s. Weekend Miser: Dance on Camera Festival Opens, and ?Pina? Film Is Extended 2012-01-26T23:31:05Z Suzanne Farrell, most celebrated of Balanchine ballerinas, danced the second movement, Ms. Austin the third, and in the finale the two were centerstage, leading the company’s arrayed ranks. Dance This Week: Misty Copeland, the Royal Ballet and Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “I realized that through my teacher, I was directly linked to this Balanchine man I kept reading about!” he said. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta,” she called out emphatically and repeatedly during a recent rehearsal for George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” with dancers from New York City Ballet. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The ballet is a salute to Britain, and Balanchine catches several layers of the British persona: reverence and irreverence, the stiff upper lip and the twinkling eye. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z No single version has all the answers — not even “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’” which opened with New York City Ballet in 1954 and today is a holiday staple for multiple companies from Copenhagen to Seattle. Review: Pick a ‘Nutcracker,’ One From Balanchine, the Other Reimagined 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z The ballet’s title, he said, comes from something Balanchine says in the documentary “In Balanchine’s Classroom.” Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The spring season opens with two stellar all-George Balanchine programs featuring classics like “Apollo,” “Symphony in Three Movements” and “Concerto Barocco.” 8 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z A body doesn’t last forever, especially one able to express the artistry of George Balanchine, whose ballets make up the bulk of the repertory at New York City Ballet. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z And Carla Körbes, among the world’s greatest ballerinas today, was giving her final performances of Balanchine repertory in her farewell season with Pacific Northwest. Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z This program, to be hosted by the principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht, will include company members performing excerpts from Balanchine ballets including “Serenade,” “Harlequinade,” “Chaconne,” “Square Dance” and, yes, “The Nutcracker.” Spare Times for Children for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Among ballet versions only Balanchine’s playfulness with the beat compares. Critic?s Notebook: The Smallest Dancers Steal Their Own Show 2010-12-22T23:06:19Z At the time, her poor health led to a stress fracture, which prevented her from performing the lead in Balanchine’s “Ballo della Regina” at the school’s annual Workshop Performances. A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z When she joined the City Ballet, in 1984, the company was entering a difficult period of transition, brought on by the death of its founding choreographer and genius loci, George Balanchine. Nothing To Hide: Wendy Whelan Retires 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Then a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Mr. Boal went to Brazil to perform the title role of Balanchine’s “Apollo.” Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Two of this year’s nine ballets, for example, were choreographed by Balanchine, and two to music by Mr. Glass. Dance Review: ‘Ballet Across America’ at the Kennedy Center 2013-06-11T20:57:15Z Balanchine wasn’t always the winner: At close range, his adagio sometimes looked overloaded compared with the purity and flow of the Ivanov. The archaeology of dance: American Contemporary Ballet digs back to 1890 with revelatory results 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, this was so with the season’s final performance of its oldest ballet, George Balanchine’s “Serenade,” in a richly colorful performance led onstage by Sara Mearns, Tiler Peck and Jared Angle. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A particular miracle here is how Balanchine captures both the music’s ancient and modern qualities. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z Excellent work has also been done by other Balanchine Trust stagers. Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Balanchine, though he had lived in the United States for 20 years, had seldom overtly depicted his adopted country in ballet before. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z After 16 years, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet will bid farewell, bowing out with a final selection of Balanchine works, including the pas de deux “Meditation” and the gypsy-inspired “Tzigane,” both created for Farrell. Ballet and Bernstein: Kennedy Center reveals more of 2017-18 season 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Martins, a former star dancer, had led City Ballet since the death of its founder, George Balanchine, in 1983 — for a few years in conjunction with Jerome Robbins, then on his own. The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Nobody in ballet told better stories than the choreographer George Balanchine. Review: Balanchine, the Storyteller: Frisson Is in the Details 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z George Balanchine, explaining why no plotless ballet was ever truly abstract, liked to say that when you have a man and a woman onstage together, you already have a story. Arts & Leisure: Merce Cunningham Dance Company Ends Its Legacy Tour 2011-12-22T14:31:38Z Not only is she Balanchine’s last ballerina; she is also one of the New York ballet world’s last stars. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z When Mr. Gorey wasn’t in the cinema or reading, he was watching George Balanchine’s ballets, around which he based his entire schedule for nearly three decades, rarely missing a single performance. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “It was so special to have Eddie there coaching ‘Rubies,’” he said, referring to a Balanchine work he has performed countless times. Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The company's "New Combinations Evening" honors George Balanchine's legacy by presenting world premiere ballets on or around the anniversary of his birthday, Jan. 22. ArtsBeat: A New Justin Peck Work for New York City Ballet 2012-11-12T19:23:50Z “Haieff Divertimento” is the latest object of Ms. Farrell’s Balanchine Preservation Initiative. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z In all these ballets, Balanchine takes the phraseology of classicism to extremes of elaboration. New York City Ballet’s Powerfully Eventful Fall Season 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z These represent the three central aspects of City Ballet: the works by Balanchine, Robbins and living choreographers. Wendy Whelan Leaves City Ballet After 30 Years 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Last summer, the New York City Ballet performed four ballets by George Balanchine at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and “Great Performances” was there. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Fences’ and a Milestone on ‘Shark Tank’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She was married for a time to George Balanchine, who founded the School of American Ballet in New York. Ballet legend Maria Tallchief dies at 88 2013-04-12T17:36:11Z While female dancers are usually front and center in Balanchine works — the men, as partners, are responsible for making them shine — the men don’t always take second place. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Balanchine is not Gomes’ bread and butter, but he was accomplished if not assured. Pure joy in toe shoes: Tiler Peck and the radiant dancing of 'BalletNow' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Nonetheless it was Balanchine, in New York, who staged Stravinsky’s most extreme ideas. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off its new season with a gem: George Balanchine’s sparkling “Jewels,” one of ballet’s few full-length plotless ballets, runs Sept. 26-Oct. Fall Arts Guide: Season takes wing 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The whole Balanchine motto of “See the music, hear the dance” is nonsense anyway. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Several of the Balanchine alumni at the “Apollo” seminar agreed the role of Apollo was where Balanchine the creative artist came closest to a self-portrait. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “Stravinsky conducted ‘Agon,’ and at intermission I would see him and Mr. Balanchine toasting each other,” she said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The performances that changed his life came in 1948, when a teacher brought him to City Center to see works by George Balanchine performed by Ballet Society, which would soon morph into City Ballet. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z "I would list him along with other great choreographers of the 20th century, including George Balanchine, in the way he used the music as a basis for his movement," he says. 'Flames of Paris' blazes anew with Mikhailovsky Ballet at Segerstrom 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Two years later, George Balanchine, who founded City Ballet with Lincoln Kirstein, made his modernist masterpiece “Agon,” which featured a pas de deux for Mr. Mitchell and Diana Adams. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It is said that Balanchine, 15 years her senior, wanted to marry her, but it was not to be. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z The entire New York City Ballet family would like to express our gratitude and affection to our beloved co-founder, George Balanchine, who passed away on this day, 30 years ago. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z Balanchine famously asked his dancers; and I ask it of the San Francisco Ballet today. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z Initially, “Benjamin wanted something less 19th century” than what Mr. Balanchine had first mounted, Mr. Lacroix said. Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Because students have months to prepare for the performance, and because the ballets are staged by figures intimately associated with the Balanchine tradition, it’s not unusual to find the ballets in pristine condition. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z Mr. Villella had been taught the role by another ballet master; when he showed Balanchine what he had learned, Balanchine responded tartly “No poetry!” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z That’s where the dancer who inspired the creation comes in, the one who stood in front of Balanchine as he spoke and demonstrated and decided what move comes next. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Last weekend I watched its annual season at the Kennedy Center: a single program offering five works, four by Balanchine and one by Jerome Robbins. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z In New York, Balanchine, Trisha Brown, Cunningham all felt like part of the same world. 2010-01-08T20:23:00Z She’s a natural Balanchine stylist, with qualities of wit, voluptuousness and even glee that make her gifts of attack and sweep become multifaceted. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z I ran into a New Yorker staff writer who had just watched archival Balanchine films with her husband. The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Not many dancers get as flamboyant a retirement present as Melissa Hayden did when Balanchine choreographed it for her in 1973. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Is it simply impossible to follow in Balanchine’s footsteps? City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z He managed nearly perfect attendance at the New York City Ballet during the era when George Balanchine presided, which explains why his enigmatic figures tend to strike Balanchinian poses. Review | A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But the Balanchine ballerinas of yesteryear registered on a grander, deeper scale. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Later, he trained generations of dancers including Balanchine, the founding choreographer of City Ballet. Ghosts of ‘Nutcracker’ Past, Preserved on Film 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z As Ms. Farrell explains in a director’s note, “The program is a reflection of our last 16 years. It has been an honor to serve the art of ballet and George Balanchine.” Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In his version of “The Nutcracker,” Balanchine celebrates the innocence of childhood. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The festival was a turning point for Balanchine and the company, Weiss said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Four weeks of New York City Ballet’s current season are devoted to music by this composer, and much of the programming consists of works by George Balanchine. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater 2013-01-18T23:37:16Z In "Serenade," that blue-cloud version of Balanchine heaven, Kylee Kitchens' long-legged arabesque seemed to reach to the sky, slowly and delicately rotated by a partner's unseen hands as Tchaikovsky's delicious strings soared. 'All Balanchine,' all beautiful, at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2010-04-16T19:00:00Z The first "Nutcracker" he saw was Balanchine's - on DVD, the 1993 version put out by New York City Ballet with the young Macaulay Culkin as the prince. Popcorn and snowflakes: 'Nutcracker' at the movies 2011-12-09T22:16:13Z Each had created roles in Balanchine premieres and had inherited other lead roles — but all recalled that, for Apollo, Balanchine brought a new kind of drama to his tuition. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z And where the man is an artist, the woman is his muse; the roles may not, for Balanchine, be reversed. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z It features the very basic Petipa vocabulary that I always felt still grounding Balanchine’s later extensions. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Thanks to Jessen, you can see Balanchine’s City Ballet in the 1950s dancing “Serenade,” “Symphony in C,” “La Valse” and other works. Critic’s Notebook: That ’40s Pas de Deux? You Can Still Catch It 2013-08-28T21:52:03Z The new troupe will bring limited satisfaction to those for whom City Ballet is above all a vehicle for Balanchine choreography. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z “There were many people that said there shouldn’t be blacks in ballet, and Balanchine said, ‘Then take your daughter out of the company,’” Mr. Mitchell continued. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z His training and career have unfolded entirely at New York City Ballet, home to the Balanchine treasury, which mostly consists of short, plotless works. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z This weekend, the company concludes its “Classic ABT” mixed-bill program, which includes Robbins’s “Fancy Free,” Balanchine’s “Theme and Variation” and two by Tudor. Dance Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Balanchine these days is seen by some as fostering that culture. Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Ballet, as Balanchine often said, would keep changing anyway; let’s find new ballets to believe in. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Celebrating the two choreographers most crucial to City Ballet history, it was called “Balanchine and Robbins: Masters at Work.” Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z Over the past 20 years, Ms. Farrell has specialized in staging Balanchine ballets for companies learning them from scratch. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z And even more important, she wanted to preserve the dancers’ perspectives on Balanchine and his training, and to show how Balanchine cherished his dancers’ individuality. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z And there used to be a revolving door between ballet and Broadway, too: Balanchine, de Mille and Robbins played in both worlds. ‘The Winter’s Tale’: Exit Dancer, Pursued by a Bear 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z What these and other stagings teach us is that there’s no one definitive Balanchine style any more. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z And in the last year he has had the opportunity to work with the former City Ballet star Edward Villella and Mr. Baryshnikov on roles created for them by Balanchine and Robbins. Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Though he never created a ballet for her, she worked intensely with Balanchine, who died in 1983. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z The country’s premier ballet company, which has defined grace, speed and precision since the days of its co-founder George Balanchine, is now also a stage for the era’s #MeToo convulsions. Vulgar Texts and Dancer Turmoil Force City Ballet to Look in the Mirror 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z In 60 years and 400 works, Balanchine married modernist minimalism to the weightlessness of the Russian ballet tradition; after Balanchine, “pure” non-narrative movement was no longer just for contemporary dance. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z George Balanchine said, “The important thing in ballet is the movement itself,” but that’s not as easy or as obvious as it sounds. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But there are other works Balanchine made and dropped; “Cortège,” however, he kept in repertory up to 1980. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z Kirstein’s handwritten diaries — also kept by the dance division and often consulted by scholars — record many discussions and plans for “Tom” with Balanchine, Cummings and Thomson, though separately. Pavlova’s Shoes, Nijinsky’s Diary, and Other Dance Treasures From the Public Library 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Ratmansky, who has spent the past 13 years at American Ballet Theater, said he was inspired by the legacy of City Ballet, which was built by the towering choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Alexei Ratmansky, Renowned Choreographer, to Join City Ballet 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z A year later, at 14, she entered Balanchine’s feeder school, the School of American Ballet, on full scholarship. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet George Balanchine, its co-founder, was married to two of its leading dancers. A Dancer’s Farewell, Not as Choreographed 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z George Balanchine had Stravinsky—acerbic, witty, rhythmically exciting. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s joyful and seasonally appropriate “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” set to Mendelssohn’s bewitching score, arrives on Tuesday. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But since Mr. Taylor is famous for wicked remarks, it’s also reasonable to assume he meant a dig at Balanchine, whose ballet “Donizetti Variations” treats the same music as if it were mint-fresh. Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z The company will perform a second program, featuring works by Balanchine, Justin Peck and Christopher Wheeldon, Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Review | New York City Ballet’s knockout punch is delivered at Kennedy Center 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z There has been some pushback from purists who argue against altering a work of art in response to changing times — and there is particular sensitivity surrounding Balanchine, whose “Nutcracker” is a widely cherished tradition. Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z George Balanchine’s “Jewels,” choreographed in 1967, is an anthology of ballet history, a densely packed guide to the evolution of classical dance over the last 150 years. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z Later on, Apollo kicks the air: as several of Balanchine’s Apollos remember, he’s “playing soccer.” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Still, he cast him in George Balanchine’s “Prodigal Son” this season, which goes against type. Anthony Huxley, the Anti-Jock of City Ballet 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z More than 95 percent of the current roster trained there, which helps City Ballet maintain its distinctive Balanchine style at a moment when many companies are becoming more similar, and international, stylistically. Who Should Run City Ballet? A Job Posting, Explained 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z They impressed Balanchine in particular with their sense of light, darkness and drama. Review: ‘Transmissions’ Evokes a Climate (Poetic, With a Chance of Ballet) 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Connoisseurs of the Balanchine “Nutcracker” should notice a couple of changes that have been made this season. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z There are echoes of Balanchine all through it, but if the dance is imitative, it also demonstrates lessons well learned, particularly concerning musically responsive structuring. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z The dance critic David Vaughan wrote in the 1970s that “Ashton, Balanchine, Cunningham are the ABC of contemporary classicism.” Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z To experience Tchaikovsky through Balanchine’s vision is to hear his music anew. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z The joke lies in how Balanchine fit classical steps and conventions into folk dance patterns, dressing the dancers in period costume and the steps in period attitudes. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-13T21:54:43Z Ms. Reichlen’s speech made the connections between morals, beauty, technique, schooling, company, and the work of George Balanchine, City Ballet’s founding choreographer, explicit and moving. ‘We, the Dancers’: At City Ballet’s Gala, Affirming Ballet’s Honor 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Merrill Ashley, a former principal who appears in the film, said that Balanchine used to say that he would be more remembered for his teaching than for his ballets. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z There are important ways in which Balanchine and Robbins still surpass any 21st-century choreographer, and Ms. Farrell’s stagings make Balanchine choreography still feel startling and challenging. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Balanchine made the dance for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1947. Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z I may be griping — I confess loyalty to George Balanchine’s logical, child-focused, yet poetic version for the New York City Ballet — but London audiences and the British dance critics love Mr. Wright’s version. London Nutcrackers Defy Logic, and Still Delight 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The first 12, presented in various combinations this week, spotlight the bracingly minimalist black and white aesthetic of the company’s founder, George Balanchine. Dance Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Alastair Macaulay, the chief dance critic of The New York Times, wrote that he had delivered “the best-ever account of a Balanchine role older than he is.” City Ballet Has a New Principal Dancer 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Balanchine, whose musical perceptions were as acute as those of many major composers, bequeathed Mr. Martins not just a company but an audience eager for contemporary music. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z The evening concluded with Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” which is one of his most satisfying ballets even when the cast isn’t quite up to its challenges. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Russian Seasons? From New York City Ballet 2012-02-05T22:36:15Z The Balanchine curtain rises on dancers who are waiting to dance, braced for action. Dance Review: The 3 Glittering Tales Balanchine Tells 2010-02-26T22:55:00Z Also in the season are three story ballets -- "Cinderella," "Romeo et Juliette," and "Swan Lake" -- and an evening of "Modern Masterpieces," which will include favorites by Balanchine, Twyla Tharp and Ulysses Dove. Single tickets go on sale at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2012-07-23T13:01:11Z “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” : The great choreographer gets his name in the title of the 1993 film, but it’s remembered mostly for its use of a dour Macaulay Culkin as the Nutcracker and Prince. Nuttier Nutcrackers Leading off its program at the David H. Koch Theater, City Ballet played it safe with the fourth movement and finale of George Balanchine’s “Symphony in C.” Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z People who read about New York City Ballet without watching it must wonder: Why all this fuss about the dead Balanchine? Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z She was referring to George Balanchine, the choreographer who established New York City Ballet, molding it around his fleet, clear, unsentimental style. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In New York he created roles in three Balanchine ballets that survive today, and he became the final great exponent of Apollo in Balanchine’s ballet of that name during the choreographer’s lifetime. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z Balanchine studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia, starting at age 9. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, he traces a connection between the body’s central axis and the placement of its weight over the front of the foot in a way that fascinatingly recalls some ballet teaching: George Balanchine’s, not least. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z It will never be as if Balanchine is here. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z Nonetheless, to see again Balanchine’s classic production felt like coming home. Review: Pick a ‘Nutcracker,’ One From Balanchine, the Other Reimagined 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Peck has learned from Balanchine the fun of math as drama: the sheer arithmetic and geometry of the evolving stage events here are central to the entertainment. Review: ‘Scherzo Fantastique’ Brims With Liberated Energy 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z George Balanchine, by his own admission, always admired jewels, a quality he attributed to his Georgian roots. As City Ballet Celebrates Its 75th, Dancers (Hundreds) Take a Bow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z She went to New York City in 1957 and, still unknown, phoned Balanchine and asked him to look at her choreography. Gloria Contreras, Choreographer Mentored by Balanchine, Dies at 81 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z When Mr. Martins was in charge, Balanchine alumni outside of the artistic staff were mostly kept out of the studio. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The company, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will perform Arthur Mitchell’s “Tones II,” portions of George Balanchine’s “The Four Temperaments” and a piece by Robert Garland in the museum’s rotunda on Sept. 30. At Guggenheim, Works & Process Looks Backward and Forward 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z For all the magic of the Sugar Plum Fairy on the page, Mr. Litton said, her dance is made even better by George Balanchine’s choreography for City Ballet. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Don’t City Ballet’s Balanchine classics and these gifted young dancers deserve the fine-tuning that Mr. Dowell brought to Ballet Theater’s Ashton? Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Her references were less Balanchine and more “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” — she choreographs for faces, too. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z In the opening section of Balanchine’s “Episodes,” it was almost a relief when LaFreniere’s belt broke and Chan tossed it to the back of the stage. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The evening began with “Serenade,” the first work that Balanchine choreographed in America, in 1934. Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Not in my 32 years of watching these Balanchine ballets. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z This season, she made her debut as the tall girl in Balanchine’s “Rubies.” At New York City Ballet, the Good, the Bad and the Ruby 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Feminine pulchritude mattered to Balanchine; many of his dancers had the looks of the movie stars or models of their day. New York City Ballet Is in Limbo, but in Bloom 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z From the beginning Mr. Balanchine has maintained that this is a ballet designed to be performed for, and chiefly by, children, and that is the way he has staged it here. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As the resident choreographer for New York City Ballet, the 27-year-old is perpetually auditioning for the role of rightful heir to George Balanchine. Justin Peck Finds a Sub for Injured Dancer: Himself 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet there are still too many times — despite City Ballet’s overall improvement in recent years — when its Balanchine repertory is diminished by the company’s artistic management. A Lesson for New York City Ballet: The Past Is Always Present 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z How do you, for example, adjust the lighting for a ballet in which the dancers, as in Balanchine's "Serenade," are wearing long tutus? Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z As a teenager, Parsons was a fan of Balanchine’s City Ballet, watching performances from the cheap balcony seats. Not Off the Rack: This Year’s Bespoke ‘Nutcracker’ at City Ballet 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The company dance this early Balanchine with a beguiling musicality and cohesion, but there's no frisson of danger or the sublime in the poetry of the final section. Boston Ballet: Programme 1 – review 2013-07-04T17:35:00Z And the week before, Ms. Nichols — a novice at staging Balanchine — produced the Bach “Concerto Barocco” for the Pennsylvania Ballet, a company with a long Balanchine history, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Balanchine was always the greatest choreographic master of formal geometry. Review: City Ballet’s Balanchine Dances Open Spring Season 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z As we emerged from the theater after 18 long months and a radiant performance of George Balanchine’s “Symphony in C,” New York City Ballet’s opening night felt like a rainbow. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z When describing dance, Balanchine grunts and seizes, and his bewildered apostles must turn his verbal and physical contortions into perfect pliés and pirouettes. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But it is not a revival of the Balanchine work. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z In blogs published in the New York Times, Tharp wrote that sections of the work reflected the influence or inspiration of Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham and George Balanchine. Twyla Tharp's 50th anniversary program, while graceful, becomes predictable 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In Balanchine dance theater, women are honored, exalted, shown to be compelling beings with needs and impulses that are not fully satisfied by romantic love. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Part of the debate surrounding her is that she is less sleek, less aloof, less unknowable than several of the sublime dancers who were shaped by Balanchine. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The occasion of our encounter was in 2011 when he and Tiler Peck were rehearsed by the ballerina Merrill Ashley in Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” for a Balanchine Foundation recording. Jonathan Stafford Bids Farewell to City Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z His history with City Ballet dates to 1967, when he was invited to dance the title role in Balanchine’s “Apollo” at the Edinburgh Festival. Peter Martins Retires From New York City Ballet After Misconduct Allegations 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z And in perhaps the most significant move, the classic costumes for Balanchine’s “Symphony in C” have been revamped with crystals by Swarovski. On the Runway Blog: New Costumes at City Ballet 2012-05-10T21:44:07Z “So many of the pieces we do are just enhanced and made better by Balanchine.” The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The version of “Apollo” City Ballet dances is based on the text that Balanchine arranged at the end of his life, featuring just four dancers: Apollo and the muses Terpsichore, Polyhymnia and Calliope. Dance Review: ‘Apollo,’ ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Agon’ at City Ballet 2012-09-19T21:19:09Z Balanchine was a notorious tinkerer; his final thoughts were not always his best. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z “It’s so clear that Balanchine knew exactly what he was going to do; it was part of his lineage and his training. Even the costume is the same.” Ghosts of ‘Nutcracker’ Past, Preserved on Film 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The festival brought Balanchine back to the company after a depression brought on by the departure of the dancer Suzanne Farrell, with whom he had been in love. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Space itself becomes dramatic, a core Balanchine effect. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z “But I like to always remember that Balanchine was such an optimist.” Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Now Charlotte, a student at the School of American Ballet, is breaking a barrier herself: She is the first black Marie, the young heroine of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” at New York City Ballet. After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The Pennsylvania company, now in its second season under Angel Corella’s direction, is in transition, and it may be moving away from the Balanchine style that was its bedrock. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “Who Cares” is encumbered by the conventionalizing orchestrations of Hershy Kay, but once it gets going, the interplay between Balanchine’s classical steps and Gershwin’s syncopations is analogous to that between Balanchine and Bach. New York City Ballet in a Broad Program at the Koch Theater 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The company was led by Ms. Farrell, an important muse of the great choreographer George Balanchine when she danced for him at New York City Ballet. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Plans to Close After 2017-18 Season 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Its first and third movements bear the mark of George Balanchine in their pumped-up geometric formations and their fleet, leggy virtuosity. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z But even among them, questions arise about what version is best, as Balanchine updated and tweaked his works from time to time. Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Most of the Ballet Arizona dancers here made quite different impressions from those they made in a Balanchine triple bill last weekend on their Arizona home terrain. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z Now it is all “Nutcracker” all the time every holiday season, with the New York City Ballet staging the pack-leading dance George Balanchine created for it in 1954. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In order to stay as safe as possible while having the show go on, the company — and the Balanchine Trust — had to bend the rules. This Year’s ‘Nutcracker’ Kids: Taller, Older and Savoring It All 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Farrell’s company, which is based at the Kennedy Center, danced choreography by Balanchine; the Houston and North Carolina troupes danced ballets made by their artistic directors. Dance Review: Ballet Across America Unites at Kennedy Center 2010-06-17T22:12:00Z When Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Ariana Lallone first learned the role of Hippolyta in George Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," she was barely out of her teens. Ariana Lallone prepares to bow out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:08:55Z The Balanchine experience during his lifetime was often far from neat or tidy; it was a view of galvanizing vitality that seemed not to respond to the aural accompaniment, but to embody it. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z This experience extends to the Balanchine and Robbins repertory. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z But what also impressed Bob, himself a cheerfully practical man, was Balanchine’s intensely practical nature. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The same is true of food, and it’s no surprise that Balanchine also compared dance to cooking. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Balanchine, who died in 1983, would surely be surprised by both. Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z This sublime duet, Balanchine’s harmonious rebuke to the foolish entanglements of Shakespeare’s lovers, is all about intimacy and trust. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Religion is also invoked in the program, where Ms. Michelson quotes George Balanchine’s praising comparison of American dancers to angels “who, when they relate a tragic situation, do not themselves suffer.” Dance Review: Sarah Michelson?s ?Devotion Study #1? at Whitney Museum 2012-03-07T00:05:18Z Next season each mixed bill will feature a Balanchine ballet. Remaking Pennsylvania Ballet, Ángel Corella Hires 17 New Dancers 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The splendid program, performed Friday at the David H. Koch Theater, wraps up with George Balanchine’s “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No . 2,” a luscious ballet that recalls the essence of Imperial Russia. Review: ‘La Sylphide’ Is City Ballet’s Bittersweet Valentine 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Dancers, of course, may improve with time, but Mr. Farley already has the regal bearing and sense of joy that make you hope to see him in many more Balanchine ballets. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z Balanchine’s full-length ballets “Jewels,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and, of course, “The Nutcracker” will all be performed. City Ballet Announces 2015-16 Season 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Board members made it clear they wanted to maintain that legacy, which – given Mr. Balanchine’s death in 1983 – means that the field of experienced former Balanchine dancers is dwindling. ArtsBeat: New Director Imminent for Miami City Ballet 2012-04-02T21:18:33Z The role required the approval of the George Balanchine Trust and the Jerome Robbins Foundation, which hold the rights to their ballets. Amar Ramasar Leaves City Ballet, but Plans to Keep Balanchine Close 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z When he created a flop, he says, he remembers Balanchine saying to him, “‘Bad ballet — not the end of the world. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z NYCB’s version, choreographed by George Balanchine, includes about 125 children, for starters. ‘The Nutcracker’ is the coronavirus’s latest casualty. Here’s what the loss means for some ballet companies. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z While the fall and winter recalled the Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky festivals that were among the greatest outpourings of Balanchine’s genius, this season recalls the American Music Festival of 1988. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z "People just didn't think they would see any invention in classical ballet, certainly not at NYCB, without Balanchine." Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off 2010/11 season with 'Director's Choice' program 2010-09-15T23:30:00Z This softness is the opposite of the crisp, taut dynamism of Balanchine, which the dancers are so used to. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z For more than two decades she was George Balanchine’s muse, willowy, glamorous and alluringly distant, the face of not only New York City Ballet but also of ballet in America. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z It’s Graham through the ages, with some George Balanchine, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and even a little Richard Move thrown in. Dance Review: Rioult Dance New York, at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-07T20:28:49Z Rather the opposite: Balanchine style and choreography maximize each dancer’s energy. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z These are dance jokes, where Balanchine throws in unexpected effects the way that Haydn does in music, and makes them part of a larger classical format. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Balanchine he always recognized as a genius — once likening him to Shakespeare and Mozart, whom he described as “comparable geniuses in other art forms.” Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The troupe has long been eminent among America’s Balanchine diaspora. Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Though Boston has some female dancers whose classical prowess I question, they weren’t cast in this Balanchine triple bill. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z Training was transformation, and working with Balanchine involved a kind of metamorphosis entangled with pain, self-destruction and shame, but also with desire and joy. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z As the spring season continues, this weekend is the last chance to bask in stellar programs dedicated to George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z In general it would be good to see this company, the world’s foremost exponent of Balanchine choreography, experiment with different texts of his ballets over the seasons. Dance Review: ‘Apollo,’ ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Agon’ at City Ballet 2012-09-19T21:19:09Z In Balanchine’s work, the woman may be the one lifted, but she’s always an instigator too, a partner in an ever-oscillating weight exchange. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Rounding out the gala evening is a George Balanchine masterpiece, “Symphony in C” from 1947. Solange Enters New Territory: Ballet Composer 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z There’s the Mendelssohn music that Balanchine chose, abuzz with summer sounds and the confusions and harmonies of love. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the future, he said, each program will include a Balanchine dance alongside works by living choreographers like Christopher Wheeldon. Ángel Corella of Pennsylvania Ballet Upends Troupe, Reflecting New Vision 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z She studied briefly with a Russian teacher in New York, who told McBride she was cut out to be a Balanchine dancer. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Last summer, the New York City Ballet performed four ballets by its founder George Balanchine, set to the music of French composers, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, and “Great Performances” was there. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Return to Manitowoc County: The State of Wisconsin vs. Steven A. Avery’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “He makes Stravinsky better than Stravinsky,” Mr. Litton said, referring to the long relationship Balanchine had with that composer. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The polymathic Kirstein, a writer and curator who influenced the fields of dance, photography, painting, theater design, literature and architecture, is probably best known for founding New York City Ballet with Balanchine. City Ballet to Bring Balanchine Dances to MoMA for Lincoln Kirstein Show 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z For Balanchine, who was assigned to stage it, Stravinsky’s score was an epiphany. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s a stark contrast, she said, to the company she joined as an apprentice in 1984, the year after Balanchine’s death, which plunged her colleagues into a lengthy mourning period. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z Litton paraphrased Stravinsky: “To see Balanchine’s choreography is to hear music with one’s eyes.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z New York City Ballet is, mercifully, the house of Balanchine. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Whoever he may be, this unexplained use of a supportive male functionary is one of the greatest yet most characteristic oddities of Balanchine ballet theater. 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s largely Robbins exploring the possibilities of two men and a woman, à la Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballet “Agon,” but in his own playful way, wittily visualizing the character of the music. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z He’s as likely to quote the humor writer Veronica Geng as the choreographer George Balanchine, and as likely to drop a reference to “The Sopranos” as to the French filmmaker Claude Chabrol. Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z City Ballet is also the home of the great works by George Balanchine, its co-founder, and by Jerome Robbins, and the company continues to produce more new ballets than any other troupe of similar status. New York City Ballet Names Justin Peck as Choreographer 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The choreography epitomizes the alacrity and musicality of the Balanchine style; nobody today plays with her music here as does Ms. Peck. Dance Review: ‘Dance for $20’ at the Vail International Dance Festival 2013-08-08T21:41:43Z I suppose Mr. Balanchine and I were both a little nervous. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z He made his debut in November with “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’” and showed his skill at drawing out fresh aspects of phrasing and sonority. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In the elegy of “Serenade,” the heroic, turning jumps into the man’s arms — whether delivered by Ms. Peck or Erica Pereira — have none of the oomph that Balanchine required here. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z She, better than any other dancer today, unlocks the larger dimensions of Balanchine dance theater. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The film “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ ” in which she appeared as the Sugar Plum Fairy, suggests that her glory lasted until at least 1993. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z “It’s still a Balanchine company,” she said in her office. Miami City Ballet: Feeling That Warmth and Attack 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The role is a matchless adventure for any performer; but when Balanchine himself coached it, he moved and spoke as with no other role. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," performed by New York City Ballet, will screen in a tape-delayed broadcast at a number of local theaters Tuesday only, starting at 7:30 p.m. It's time for 'Wonka,' 'Wonderful' 2011-12-08T21:42:04Z What, if anything, was the subject of “Variations,” the solo Balanchine had created for him? Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Some believe that Balanchine’s final version of a ballet was his best, others that his first one was, but either way the rule gets modified somewhere to suit personal taste. Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Anderson, whose repertory included works by George Balanchine and Kenneth MacMillan, was a pioneer in a field that still struggles with diversity. A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Its first New York program opened with “Agon,” a difficult and exposing ballet by George Balanchine, the company’s artistic godfather, and what the performance exposed was that there was a lot of work to do. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Anyway, Balanchine’s plotless creations abound in many of the values that underlie narrative: emotion, suspense, conflict, drama. Dance: Premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z Under Arthur Mitchell at Dance Theater of Harlem, she performed the role of the Siren in George Balanchine’s “Prodigal Son”; later, she took on Ailey’s diverse repertory under Judith Jamison. Juilliard’s New Dance Director Comes From Ailey and Ballet 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z By contrast, as I remember from a New York exhibition decades ago, one of Cornell’s final muses was the Balanchine ballerina Allegra Kent. Dance This Week: New Books and Exhibitions 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Around that time, she got to perform a lead role in “Serenade,” and after the performance, Balanchine delivered the words that shifted her focus: “You were good.” Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z “I was disappointed not to be in Balanchine’s new work, but I was cast in Todd Bolender’s ‘Piano Rag,’” Govrin said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z She is ready: Her English is fluent, and besides, she admitted, almost embarrassed, “I have never seen Balanchine’s ballets alive.” Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z Several of those “Sugar Plum” pas de deux I saw around the country also featured sequences from Balanchine’s 1954 version, which is danced by New York City Ballet and at least four other American companies. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z The performance abounded in many clear points of Balanchine style: points that feel not academic — even though they are — but simply and infectiously dancey. Dance Review: The Balanchine Way, Imprinted 2011-06-08T21:28:34Z For those of us who’ve been watching Balanchine repertory since before Mr. Angle was born, the danger is that we tend to be distracted by Mr. Angle’s points, or to react against them. Dance Review: A Way With Balanchine (and With a Talking Dancer, Too) 2010-09-17T22:28:00Z It is a time of flux for City Ballet itself, with numerous recent promotions of young dancers and pending retirements of the old guard, including Darci Kistler, the company’s last dancer hand-picked by Balanchine. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z Once she started looking at ballet, she said, she homed in on Balanchine. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z Meanwhile the woman-behind-the-great-man genre welcomes George Balanchine and a ballerina wife into the fold. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z Mr. Peck is working in the house of Balanchine, and in a tradition that emphasizes a classical ideal of beauty, in which sensuality is balanced with refinement and clarity. ‘Ballet 422’ Captures Justin Peck and City Ballet in Creative Motion 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z America has a number of excellent Balanchine troupes, yet the value of Suzanne Farrell Ballet, however few its performances, remains bright. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He created roles in ballets by Leonide Massine, George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, and Agnes de Mille; he had been a celebrated Franz. ‘Coppélia’ Returns to American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Two Decades Apart, But So Very Balanchine At the New York City Ballet on Wednesday evening you could have watched either “Agon” or “Chaconne” and called it a night. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z There is a beautiful act of translation that this documentary observes, as Balanchine’s former students — now wizened teachers themselves — attempt to render his movements into speech. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z For the library, acquiring Wilde’s collection is a way to enhance existing materials about artists who worked directly with Balanchine. Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Of course Balanchine’s storied company, along with the 10 other Lincoln Center organizations, receives NEA funding. Ivanka Trump should speak up for the NEA — in the name of “Frozen” fans like her daughter 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Crucially, it contains both magic for the kids and enough in-jokes to keep grown-up balletomanes happy, with sly references to Ashton, Balanchine, Tchaikovsky, Minkus and more. This week's art diary 2011-03-01T22:30:00Z Animating the body to a point in which it surrenders to the moment was part of Balanchine’s magic. Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z I refer to George Balanchine, of course, and the programming between now and late June. Dance Review: At Lincoln Center, the Eternal Radical, Balanchine 2010-05-03T22:08:00Z It’s refreshing to see a choreographer who, while showing a wide command of the ballet vocabulary, isn’t haunted by the idioms of Balanchine and doesn’t rely on high lifts or acrobatic extensions. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z Balanchine and Robbins round out most of the rest of the program. Dance Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In terms of future repertory, he will bring Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” to Denmark with new sets and costumes by the British designer Anthony Ward. Add Audacity To Understatement, And Stir In Patience 2011-06-10T14:20:38Z In honor of the 50th anniversary, participants talked about the frenetic buildup to the festival, the genial collaboration between Balanchine and Robbins, and how the festival was a turning point for Balanchine and the company. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z When the choreographer George Balanchine created dances, he generally confined himself to matters of pure form: These steps go this way, with this rhythm, these dynamics. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z And Mr. Martins, who has directed City Ballet since Balanchine’s death and studied with Williams, began his career with the Royal Danes and then for several seasons danced brilliantly in the original City Ballet production. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Such dancers have reduced the company’s founding choreographers to Balanchine and Robbins Lite. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z This 1957 work by George Balanchine originally featured a square dance caller whose cracker-barrel rhymes underlined the American verve in the choreography’s approach to music by Vivaldi and Corelli. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z This season is the 60th anniversary of the Balanchine production of “The Nutcracker” at New York City Ballet, which runs through Jan. 3. ‘The Nutcracker’ Still Out-Dazzles ‘Hansel and Gretel’ 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The all-Balanchine program at the New York City Ballet featured an underperformed Ravel work that reminded us why Balanchine is important to return to annually: to see what cannot be explained. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z In February, the theater will stage a “Valentine’s Ballet,” with short, romantic dances by famed choreographers, including George Balanchine and Marius Petipa. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Taylor piece announces a turning away from Martha Graham’s fussy, narrative-encumbered understanding of modern dance, just as this early Balanchine classic embodies his oft-repeated line, “There are no mothers-in-law in ballet.” Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater 2012-02-11T00:40:27Z And for New York City Ballet followers, there is not a more highly charged issue than the care of the Balanchine repertoire. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It was this tension between past and present that made Balanchine so revolutionary for me. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Calvin Royal III, a soft-spoken, long-limbed dancer with smiling eyes, was practicing a passage from the thrilling—and exhausting—showpiece “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” by George Balanchine. Man to Man 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Bouder, now often so mannered in ballets by George Balanchine, was at her freest and blithest. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Then there is real Balanchine, in the first three themes from “The Four Temperaments,” danced with clear intention if not always enough technique. Dance Review: Connecting the Dots, From the 18th Century to the Hip-Hop Now 2011-03-07T23:30:21Z They will be its first leaders not to have worked with Balanchine — he died the day Ms. Whelan was performing one of his works for the first time as a student in 1983. City Ballet, Shaken by Turmoil, Chooses New Leaders 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z But it’s Balanchine choreography that gives a ballerina her highest challenges. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z Claire Kretzschmar, a dancer in the work, said Farley “really uses ballet’s vocabulary, with a particular attentiveness to the Balanchine style we have been raised in, which is not always the case with choreographers today.” Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z He danced for seven seasons with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and was a guest artist at New York City Ballet in 1959, where George Balanchine choreographed “Episodes” for him. Legacy in Mind, Taylor Plans a Center for Modern Dance 2014-02-09T22:17:49Z Where the composer did indicate a tempo, Balanchine almost always respected that. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Only in one scene does either the music or dance have a clear pulse; in the other three Balanchine uses no formal ballet steps. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z And, though I’ve found many occasions to praise City Ballet’s return to form over recent seasons, this matinee showed a range of ways in which its mastery of Balanchine style is still incomplete. Review: Five by Balanchine, Stark and Dramatic, at City Ballet 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Other exciting prospects include the pairing of Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco” with Jerome Robbins’s “The Goldberg Variations” on Saturday night, as well as three Balanchine masterworks — “Agon,” “Serenade” and “Symphony in C” — on Thursday. Dance Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Wherever City Ballet performs, Balanchine style is its home. Our Critics Pick the Dance Moves (and Objects) to See This Fall 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Brien was the original Leandre in “Harlequinade,” Balanchine’s 1965 ballet inspired by commedia dell’arte, a role he danced many times afterward. Shaun O?Brien, 86, New York City Ballet Dancer 2012-02-28T05:16:04Z George Balanchine used to ask his dancers: “What are you waiting for? What are you saving it for?” Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z When World War I arrived, Balanchine was a young dance student in czarist Russia. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z George Balanchine, after admiring the glittering wares at Van Cleef & Arpels, was inspired to create his own version of “Emeralds,” “Rubies” and “Diamonds.” Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z Of the many productions of this tale in town, “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” is most likely to satisfy adults with its visual splendor and breathtaking dance. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Members of City Ballet will perform excerpts from works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Alexei Ratmansky, and those attending will help create their own story ballet. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 3-9 2012-02-02T21:53:28Z What's left inside is just a shadow of the bustling labyrinth of corridors, stairways and studios where modern American dance took its first steps, created by choreographers like George Balanchine and Martha Graham. Last Carnegie Hall resident forced out of towers 2010-08-02T10:52:00Z The inscrutability of Ms. Reichlen takes us close to the heart of the Balanchine experience — indeed, of the dance experience. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z Poor Stravinsky worked with Balanchine for decades, but he still had to die before he was toasted onstage. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z For the ballet, the season is to feature works by Balanchine as well as pieces by Jerome Robbins. William Forsythe joining Paris Opera Ballet as associate choreographer 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Highlights of the classics include George Balanchine’s “Square Dance” and “The Four Temperaments,” a modernist interpretation of medieval psychology. Dance in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There are hints of the Balanchine work in this version, which also costumes its dancers in severe leotard-and-tights outfits, and sometimes quotes it with balletic intent. Dance Review: A Tribute to the Past, Visions of the Future 2011-05-27T20:45:58Z But Balanchine used these stereotypes to define in the shortest possible time the prodigal’s all-too-human arc from rebellion to contrition. L.A. Ballet's ambitious all-Balanchine program leads to missteps, but also one big triumph 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, a star of the New York City Ballet and a wife of George Balanchine, was an accomplished cook. Guggenheim Talk Focuses on Legendary Dancer’s Cookbook 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s odd that her voluminous program notes never refer to Balanchine. Dance Review: Shades of ?Godot? and Zombies, Not to Mention Balanchine 2011-04-27T22:04:19Z Full-length ballets next season will include Mr. Martins’s “Romeo + Juliet” and Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” ArtsBeat: City Ballet’s 2014-15 Season to Feature Ballets by Peck, Scarlett and Ratmansky 2014-05-07T14:31:27Z And one point that “Present/s” made clear was that Mr. Forsythe’s style and aesthetic dominate a new generation of choreographers, much as Balanchine dominated a previous one. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Souvenir d?un Lieu Cher? 2012-03-05T23:31:27Z The repertory ranged from 10 varied Balanchine ballets to five world premieres, each rewarding. New York City Ballet, Enlivened by the New 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z What’s evident from the other three works, all by living choreographers, is that each proceeds down avenues that Balanchine never explored. Review: ‘Balanchine and Beyond,’ and Going Beyond Isn’t Easy 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z In 1945, when she took her act to Mexico City, she met Balanchine again and accepted his invitation to perform there with a group of his New York dancers. Yvonne Mounsey, City Ballet Dancer and a Teacher, Dies at 93 2012-10-03T01:10:17Z Other Balanchine ballets enter Tchaikovsky’s own complex mental landscape. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z “Which is not fair, because Balanchine belongs to me, too, and I felt like I wasn’t welcome.” Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Each Balanchine ballet left me feeling I needed to see it immediately again: there’s always more to take in. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z But “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” is also about something else: the children. The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z And it was Ashton, in “The Dream” and other ballets, who dramatized the woman’s joy in sex, her capacity for sexual rapture, as Balanchine never did. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z She said she would love a shot at performing lead roles in “Symphony in Three Movements” and “La Valse,” Balanchine ballets with inherent drama. A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z She’s also a former professional dancer, trained at Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z That act of creation takes place at the New York City Ballet, once the domain of influential choreographer George Balanchine and still considered one of the high temples of serious dance in this country. 'Ballet 422' shows the creative process on a tight deadline 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He was also outstanding in the Sarabande section of Balanchine’s “Agon.” A Farewell and the Promise of a New Future at City Ballet 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Ashton tells a story better; Balanchine tells a better story. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Africa’s Daughters, With Stories To Share George Balanchine once dismissed the notion of abstraction in dance, arguing that as soon as you place a man and a woman onstage, you have a story. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili at Danspace Project 2012-03-20T22:12:25Z The afterimages of this most marvelous of all Balanchine classics need time to percolate in the imagination. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z Balanchine’s masterpiece “Concerto Barocco” provides a lovely platform for two female principal dancers, but the true stars are the company’s excellent corps members. Dance Listings for Jan. 23-29 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In mathematics, there was Newton; in psychology, there was Freud; and in American ballet, George Balanchine was a foundational genius. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Training at Juilliard in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he watched the company while its founding choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins were still active. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z But Balanchine described his ballet as an attempt “to remain faithful to the spirit of Petipa’s dances and drama without reproducing any of the actual steps of his time,” adding, “Who, in fact remembers them?” Alexei Ratmansky Plans a New (Old) ‘Harlequinade’ for Ballet Theater 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z After a romp full of jazzy Balanchine inventions, the two dancers shake hands, then part, leaving the stage in different directions. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z His new “Why am I not where you are” — though obviously evoking the ballroom idiom of Balanchine’s ballet “La Valse” — is an essay in Powell-and-Pressburger neo-Romanticism. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z A year before the festival, Clive Barnes, the dance critic at The New York Times, wrote a piece with the headline “Balanchine — Has He Become Trivial?” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There’s this organic connection there because of “Jewels” and Balanchine. Benjamin Millepied Left the Paris Opera Ballet. Now What? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Martins announced the promotions after a matinee of George Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that closed the company’s 2014-15 Lincoln Center season. New York City Ballet Announces Promotions in Dancer Ranks 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The wit is Balanchine’s, but still nobody communicates it better than Ms. Farrell. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z If you’re in ballet-sleuth mode, you should also take notice of a favorite Balanchine device: to take some well-known steps from the original and set them to another part of the music. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z It’s a fine example of George Balanchine’s great skill in choreographing for children, and this year’s cast danced it with brio. Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Includes ‘Harlequinade’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z He can pull off traditional roles like Siegfried, but with his poise and athleticism, he’s just as at ease in the neoclassical ballets of George Balanchine and in Jerome Robbins’s works, with their less-is-more aesthetic. Once ‘Little Joe,’ Now a Reigning New York City Ballet Principal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “The two choreographers who affected me most were Balanchine and Merce, in the way they exemplified certain ethics in art,” he said in an interview. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z We’re at an early stage of this process with Balanchine, nowhere more so than with the quickly spreading “Jewels.” Dance Review: Bolshoi’s Balanchine, From Stage to Screen 2014-01-20T22:28:28Z As with other roles, Balanchine demonstrated more than he spoke; and he moved with a skill every Apollo found brilliant. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z At the end of the ballet, Balanchine and Robbins came on as beggars and did a dance, whacking each other with big sticks. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z That work is set to Stravinsky, and I was definitely making a nod to Balanchine and where I come from, dance-wise. A Ballerina Harnesses Her Wild Imagination to Choreography 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Long Hair, Sour Notes and Young Energy The view of Tchaikovsky that emerges from New York City Ballet’s current celebration of him — largely by way of the ballets of George Balanchine — is rich, multifaceted, complex. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z The 20th century saw four choreographic masters of the male-female duet: Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and Merce Cunningham. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Returns to the American Ballet Theater Stable 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z A review in the Financial Times praises the troupe's natural ease in Balanchine's leggy, lunging "Concerto Barocco." What does New York City think of PNB? 2013-02-14T22:35:02Z Prokofiev clashed badly with Balanchine, yet their “Prodigal Son” is still a masterpiece of dance drama performed worldwide. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z Ashton’s is set in costumes of the early-19th-century era of Mendelssohn’s music, Balanchine’s in a Russian-American idea of the mythical Athenian period described by Shakespeare’s play. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Despite the promise of debuts by several dancers on Wednesday night, Jerome Robbins’s “The Cage” and George Balanchine’s “Cortège Hongrois” eclipsed two other ballets with little effort. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In 2015, Mr. Huxley was promoted to principal dancer after a sparkling debut as Oberon in Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Anthony Huxley, the Anti-Jock of City Ballet 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Cerveris’s performance catches the extraordinary blend of charming good manners and absolute artistic purposefulness that so characterized Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z “The company had been receiving literally thousands of letters from people saying, hey, you know, I’m not too comfortable with how the different groups, the different nationalities are represented in George Balanchine’s ‘Nutcracker,’ ” Chan says. Advocacy group wants to see more Asian dancers on the stage, and more Asian choreographers on the program 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Balanchine had created a first version of the work 25 years earlier for the Paris season of the short-lived Les Ballets 1933. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z A teacher at Southwood encouraged students to borrow VHS tapes, and Roberts was particularly drawn to recordings of ballets by Balanchine. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The September premiere will also feature a performance of Union Jack, Balanchine's tribute to Britain. Paul McCartney puts love, anger and sadness into score for New York ballet 2011-02-24T21:36:54Z In these two great works — as often elsewhere — Ashton and Balanchine show why, for many people, the male-female pas de deux is where ballet reaches its most moving. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z These characters aren’t fairies, yet Balanchine gives them the ballet’s most magical episode. Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z While we’re still in Balanchine’s hands with these four ballets, the venture is marvelous; but 1988 saw many newly made fiascos, too. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z At his invitation, she has been teaching company class at City Ballet; she also stages Balanchine ballets for other companies and schools. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z On Thursday the conductor Andrews Sill prefaced “Diamonds” with an invaluable “See the Music” talk about the Third Symphony’s opening movement and the rhythmic, structural and thematic reasons Balanchine may have omitted it. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z There will be better programs in the days to come, particularly the pairing of George Balanchine’s “Ballet Imperial” with Frederick Ashton’s “The Dream.” Review: Ballet Theater Revisits Its Past With a Hit and Two Misses 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The Miami City Ballet has brought George Balanchine’s 1954 version of “The Nutcracker” to the Music Center — one with impressive scale: 45 adults, 60 children, as well as an orchestra and chorus. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Your most daring departure from both de Mille and Balanchine was to choreograph Copland’s second movement, the “Corral Nocturne,” for five men. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Yet influence went two ways: You can see traces of “Dances at a Gathering” in Balanchine choreography. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z He danced solo classical parts in “Swan Lake” and “Giselle” — the company then had only a few full-length 19th-century classics in its repertoire — as well as the title role in Balanchine’s “Apollo.” Daniel Levins, Classically Trained Ballet Dancer, Dies at 62 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times classified Mr. Andersen as a “Balanchine regisseur-stager of rare acuity” who has “made his company one of the most musically intelligent in the world.” Desert Sun No Shortage Of Inspiration 2012-02-19T05:00:15Z What other artist in ballet charted sublimity as often and as profoundly as Balanchine? At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z A mentee of Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at New York City Ballet, Garland is also a devotee of George Balanchine, City Ballet’s founding choreographer, imbuing his own works with that tradition. Dance Theater of Harlem Names a New Artistic Director 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Balanchine, without any alterations, incorporates other Mendelssohn scores that expand the vast classical Romanticism of his conception, and the contrasts of scale with which he shapes the drama are astounding. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z This was an unusually powerful and eloquent rendition of the music, which is a singular collage of items by Felix Mendelssohn, culled from multiple scores by George Balanchine for his two-act drama. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The artist in residence position pairs him with dancers hungry for a purpose beyond the already vital one that they have: keeping the repertory of Balanchine and Jerome Robbins alive. At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky Can Let His Imagination Run Wild 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s based on a battery of interviews, including nearly 200 alone with Balanchine’s former dancers, whom as a group Homans refers to as “unusually eccentric and fascinating” and “forbiddingly tight-knit.” A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Balanchine’s version contains one of his supreme pas de deux, in the second-act divertissement, seeming to sum up both the Platonic ideal of love and an image of Renaissance harmony that transcends the plot. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z McBride spent almost 30 years with New York City Ballet and worked with choreographers Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. Tom Hanks, Sting, Lily Tomlin to get Kennedy Center honors 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The school, which Balanchine founded in 1934, has been presenting annual workshop performances now for 47 years. Dance Review: The Balanchine Way, Imprinted 2011-06-08T21:28:34Z George Balanchine, another St. Petersburg transplant, introduced a jazz sensibility to the classical form in dances like “The Four Temperaments” and “Agon.” Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z She teaches classical repertory as well as selections from ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Antony Tudor, among others. A Former Renegade Spirit Becomes a Headmistress 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z There’s a reason George Balanchine, City Ballet’s legendary founder, gets title billing in this version of the holiday tradition: It very much bears his unique blend of sophistication and joy. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z What a difference on Wednesday, when the troupe opened its program at New York City Center with another challenging piece by Balanchine, “Allegro Brillante.” Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “Ballet,” as the choreographer George Balanchine once said, “is Woman.” Breaking the Glass Slipper: Where Are the Female Choreographers? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Balanchine greatly enjoyed choreographing the second movement pas de deux, Villella said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Balanchine is an unusual subject for what critics like to call, and I’ll go there, a magisterial biography. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z "All Balanchine," opening Thursday, celebrates 75 years of the great choreographer's work in America. Pacific Northwest Ballet presents an all-Balanchine evening 2010-04-08T20:14:00Z In Balanchine’s “Sonatine,” Woodward, a recently named principal, and Antony Huxley, were delicate and lyrical; together, their bodies sang. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It also dances George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp and much other choreography, and commissions several new ballets each season. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Celebrated by the Sarasota Ballet 2014-05-05T21:49:58Z “She was the muse of two of the 20th century’s greatest choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins,” Baranski said. Kennedy Center rocks the honors roll to salute Sting, Green, Hanks, Tomlin, McBride Bethune trained under famed dance instructor George Balanchine and began dancing with the New York City Ballet at age 14 despite suffering from scoliosis and lymphedema. Woman killed by 2 vehicles in LA was ballet dancer 2012-02-14T08:31:05Z The spell Balanchine cast then hasn’t been broken. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z An offshoot of City Ballet, the Miami company understands what Balanchine discovered and taught: how exactitude needn’t sacrifice warmth; how even in Romanticism, rhythmic accuracy allows momentum to build. Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z When introducing his company’s galas from the stage, Mr. Martins’s favorite gimmick is to make a toast and tell the audience that this house tradition was started by Balanchine. Dance Review: Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean?s Kingdom? - Review 2011-09-23T23:00:16Z In “Divertimento No. 15” the Miami women — scintillatingly musical — perfectly show how Balanchine combined womanliness with youthfulness; they’re both fresh, like buds, and decisive. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z The company presents two weeks of “The Sleeping Beauty,” a ballet that coincided with George Balanchine’s first appearance onstage, as Cupid. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z I think it was the Balanchine technique I really responded to. A Full-Circle Mentor Moment 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z Choreographed by George Balanchine to a classic score by Igor Stravinsky, “Apollo” would always be a good work to commence a City Ballet season — but seldom more than now. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Twenty years later, Balanchine, with Alexandra Danilova, would create a full-length version of this comic ballet, but this duet, part of a new series released by Video Artists International, was choreographed especially for the telecast. Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z This summer, he got his first stab at one of the most desirable roles of all: the lead in George Balanchine’s “Apollo,” a ballet about a young god in training, testing his powers. For Dancers, the Not-So-Lazy Days of Summer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “I had been striving to be authentic in a world where the choreographic deity, Balanchine, was dead,” she said. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The most consequential feature of such a program is what it leaves out: the masterpieces by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins that always put Mr. Martins’s art in the shade. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-15T20:46:54Z Thus Bettijane Sills, writing with Elizabeth McPherson, opens her “Broadway, Balanchine & Beyond” almost apologetically. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The company was beginning the third week of a season that has been almost all Balanchine, and the dancers have kept rising to meet one challenge after another. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z Balanchine, he recalled, understood his financial situation, but urged him not to give up the classics. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z As someone who tends to approach everything by way of food, I also intend to investigate Balanchine’s favorite sandwich, the recipe for which is printed in Mr. Gottlieb’s “Reading Dance.” A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In moments, especially when her arms open as her face tilts up, there is the echo of the opening prayer of Balanchine’s “Mozartiana.” Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z And both, while learning from the dead master choreographer Balanchine, seem wonderfully uninhibited by his example. Signs of Choreographic Life: Alexei Ratmansky and Mark Morris 2012-01-27T19:35:36Z Several of us first fell under her spell early in 2009, when she danced the quietly rapturous “Vienna Woods” section of Balanchine’s “Vienna Waltzes.” Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It became a multidisciplinary space for artists in theater, dance and music, like Orson Welles, George Balanchine and Beverly Sills. City Center’s 75th Anniversary: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Balanchine and Broadway 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Yes, in the period after Balanchine, Ashton and other great choreographers, we are living through an often dark era of ballet. Critic?s Notebook: Is Ballet Dying? Sure, It?s Died Many Times 2011-01-05T00:02:49Z Balanchine, here and in footage of class, is an energetic force: The film may be blurry or grainy, but his intention is not. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In striking early, Mr. Martins, also the ballet master in chief of City Ballet, is following George Balanchine’s lead. School of American Ballet Enlists City Ballet Members 2012-09-30T04:00:05Z Having trained at the School of American Ballet in the Balanchine style, which emphasizes speed, vigorous athleticism and syncopated musicality, Bross had to adapt to the specificities of Ashton's style. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Romeo and Juliet' a happy alliance between dance families 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z When Balanchine choreographed, “it was the way he taught class, nothing dramatic,” Mazzo said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There was even some ballet: Woetzel asked Lil Buck, who has trained with a ballet teacher, to perform a version of the George Balanchine piece "Agon," to Stravinsky. Review: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma, 'jookin" together 2013-04-04T00:59:08Z But stick it out for Balanchine’s “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” which was originally created for the 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical “On Your Toes.” Dance in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Though this would be offensively vulgar by European standards, Balanchine makes it transcend vulgarity; the irrepressible openness of the dancer’s body has a vitality that makes her irresistible. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z This season, she made debuts as the Lilac Fairy in “Sleeping Beauty,” as well as in Balanchine’s “Walpurgisnacht Ballet.” Four Dancers Promoted to Principal at New York City Ballet 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z An early showing of the piece, in 2015, included a winning demonstration of how George Balanchine, who defined a high-speed American style of ballet, finessed the physics of the pirouette. Emily Coates’s ‘Incarnations’: Quantum Leaps, When Physics Meets Dance 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z This American version of the exhibition makes more of the Ballets Russes’ 1916-17 tour of America and of Balanchine’s choreography than did its London counterpart. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z Balanchine told Bob: “Margot nice girl. I take her to movies a couple of times — no hanky-panky! But in ‘Ballet Imperial,’ no. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Yet it also shows us sides of Balanchine few ever saw: The young god Apollo is effortful in his search for inspiration as the mature, phenomenally assured Balanchine never seemed. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It returns this week, paired with Balanchine’s “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2.” Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In the 20th century, George Balanchine, the founding choreographer of City Ballet, led the way, asking women to do what was thought impossible for their physiques. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z That’s our strategy: To bring in originals who worked closely with Balanchine.” At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Its colors may dazzle dancegoers who have spent the last week watching the company perform the more austerely designed “Black and White” Balanchine ballets. City Ballet Usher Has Spotlight as a Designer for ‘La Sylphide’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s not long since the levels of both Balanchine dancing and new choreography were chiefly cause for complaint; so gratitude is mixed with something close to incredulity. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z George Balanchine’s aphorism “Ballet is woman” never had the ring of a feminist statement. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Also on the calendar are George Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations” and Jessica Lang’s “ZigZag,” set to songs recorded by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, which Ballet Theater featured at its fall gala. American Ballet Theater Plans a Return to Met Opera Stage 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The 1928 work, the oldest Balanchine piece in City Ballet’s repertory, imagines Apollo as a youth, still a little raw and vulnerable, experimenting with three muses, discovering music and dance. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z On one of the programs, Balanchine explains in an interview: “When you dance, music is like your floor. The music supports us.” Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The annual celebration and fund-raising event will also include newly filmed performances of excerpts from City Ballet’s repertory by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. New York City Ballet Dancers to Step Back Onstage 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z And Robbins, even 30 years later, loved to tell his dancers that this moment came from Balanchine. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Esteemed teachers like Suki Schorer, a former principal who started teaching at Balanchine’s request in the early 1960s and continues to do so at the School of American Ballet, are getting older. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Both she and Michael Cook showed the Balanchine secret of holding the audience moment by moment in a “what will happen next?” drama: the muse-artist dynamic between them keeps changing. | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-20T22:03:23Z But the ballets, she said in an interview, “also tell a story about Kirstein and Balanchine.” City Ballet to Bring Balanchine Dances to MoMA for Lincoln Kirstein Show 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Diaghilev, watching an “Apollo” rehearsal and turning to the composer Nicolas Nabokov, said of Balanchine: “What he is doing is magnificent. This is classicism, classicism such as we have not seen since Petipa.” Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The winter season commences with two programs dedicated to the company’s founding father, George Balanchine. 4 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Finally Hansvick, Szentes and Whallon returned to demonstrate their versatility by showing us how Balanchine transformed and abstracted the treatment of women in Romantic ballet into statements of almost supernatural serenity. The archaeology of dance: American Contemporary Ballet digs back to 1890 with revelatory results 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Alonso’s technical power caught the eye of George Balanchine, who made “Theme and Variations” for her and her partner Igor Youskevitch in 1947, a year before he founded New York City Ballet. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame It’s worth recalling that when it was new it seemed to be one of the ultimate achievements of Balanchine classical style, above all in its ballerina role. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z More important, though, he keeps learning the Balanchine lesson of liberating energy. Review: ‘Scherzo Fantastique’ Brims With Liberated Energy 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Kirstein wanted Diaghilev-type fusions of the arts; it’s hard to know what he can have made of Balanchine’s increasing preference for no décor and minimal costumes. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The sense of selflessness is a crucial characteristic of good Balanchine style. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z Toni Bentley’s sixth book, “Serenade,” is a tribute not only to the Georgian American choreographer George Balanchine’s timeless, titular ballet, but also to the art form. Misty Copeland on ‘Serenade,’ Democracy and the Art of Movement 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z This admirer of “The Golden Girls” and Balanchine had a predilection for fur coats, Converse sneakers and cats. Review: Peering Behind the Whimsically Ghoulish ‘Gorey’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Performances include excerpts from the company’s repertory, heavy on the Balanchine. Dance Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z What makes New York City Ballet unparalleled is its stock of masterpieces by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Dance Review: City Ballet Classics, Including ?Agon? at Koch Theater 2012-02-19T22:21:20Z Beyond any individual performance lies the endless fascination of the Balanchine choreography. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z In addition to a world premiere by Christopher Wheeldon, the program will include George Balanchine’s “Agon” and “Diamonds.” PNB to premiere Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet 2013-05-22T23:10:53Z For her, as for many fans, ballet was inextricable from patriotism, and Balanchine’s irreverence had insulted her country. Die-Hard Ballet Fans, Passionate and Partisan 2014-04-25T20:08:08Z A season featuring “Symphony in Three Movements” among numerous masterpieces by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins is without match in the world today. Dance Review: Taking Flight: A Season of Revival 2011-01-28T23:27:03Z The ballet world is laden with first-name insider-talk, but some reactionaries are still shocked that their Mr. Balanchine is, on this occasion, referred to as George. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I would love it if he were appointed director of NYCB, with Farrell as an associate director charged with maintaining the Balanchine repertory, and Justin Peck remaining in his position as resident choreographer. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The balletgoer who thinks he knows Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering” or George Balanchine’s “Duo Concertant” finds that he sees them anew in such a setting. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z They show Balanchine’s first thoughts, including the amazing pumping-heart image with which he originally ended the ballet. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Martins recalled wryly how he wondered why Balanchine never revived “Apollo” for about seven years in the 1970s. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z “In rehearsal I think I did the fast version of her slow version,” Ms. Kistler said before mimicking a panicked Balanchine. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z One day, when she was late for a costume fitting, Balanchine told her it was her last chance. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Because of his closeness with the Russian-born Balanchine, Mr. Mitchell refers to himself as an African-American man raised like an old Russian aristocrat. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z And he went on to create enduring dances like “New Bach,” a homage to Balanchine with touches of African-American vernacular dances; and “Return,” to recordings by James Brown and Aretha Franklin. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z As she helped the dancers, it became instantly clear that the most paramount — and fragile — part of a Balanchine ballet is its musicality. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Bentley, who danced under Balanchine’s direction at the New York City Ballet for a decade in the 1970s and ’80s, tells a history that is as vivid and poetic as the dance itself. Misty Copeland on ‘Serenade,’ Democracy and the Art of Movement 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z The troupe will do excerpts from the work, along with Balanchine’s “Apollo.” 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z But Balanchine found Stravinsky’s music so choreographic that he seized even on pieces like the Violin Concerto and the late, 12-tone Movements for Piano and Orchestra and conscripted them for duty in ballet. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z It ended with “The Four Temperaments,” a Balanchine masterpiece from 1946. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z As I watched two performances here on Saturday, works as familiar as George Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco” and “Symphony in C” suddenly revealed fresh details. Dance Review: Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases,’ by New York City Ballet 2012-07-17T22:06:52Z For Balanchine, like masters before him, a company’s dancers had to be custom-trained by its school. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z There are even dances, like the first two movements of “Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3” and all of “Kammermusik No. 2,” in which the choreography actually looks more absorbing than it did in Balanchine’s lifetime. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z Still, the production’s mother company remains New York City Ballet, for which Balanchine created it in 1954. Dance Review: Balanchine’s ‘Nutcracker’ at New York City Ballet 2012-11-25T22:19:46Z When Balanchine died in 1983, the company’s dancers rose to the occasion for several years. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Both dancers were in their prime when he died; many of us remember them sharing the stage in several Balanchine ballets, taking the complex facets of his work — classical, Romantic, modernist — to new peaks. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Balanchine made his here, for his New York City Ballet. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s Ashton Program at the Met 2010-06-09T22:16:00Z Though some still use the word “abstract” to describe plotless choreography, Cunningham, like the choreographer George Balanchine before him and Mark Morris today, observed that humans dancing cannot be abstract. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z “He took a page — and I think this is amazing — he took a page from Balanchine’s book, and another Shakespeare that we do here, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’” she said. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z But in the end, both of the premieres felt already dated, especially compared to “Glass Pieces,” which was created by Robbins in 1983 after the death of George Balanchine. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Those legends include well-known artists such as the choreographer George Balanchine, the opera singer and administrator Beverly Sills, the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, and the Metropolitan Opera’s longtime music director James Levine. Lincoln Center Will Create a Performing Arts Hall of Fame 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Homans spends a lot of time on, circling and circling again, Balanchine and women and sex and power. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z In Studio 3, all Shelton-Benjamin had to do was hum a few notes of Balanchine’s “Serenade” and say “and” for the women to grandly sweep their right arms up. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z We aren’t wrong, as a rule, to consider George Balanchine among the most original of choreographers — yet we can also see why he liked to stress the other side. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z In 1957, Balanchine choreographed “Agon,” set to Stravinsky and featuring a central pas de deux for Mr. Mitchell and a white ballerina, Diana Adams. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z I also welcomed it on Saturday night in George Balanchine’s “Walpurgisnacht Ballet.” Dance Review: At City Ballet, a New Work Looks to Ellington for ?That Swing? 2011-01-30T23:49:35Z No important ballet-maker seems less beholden to the sometimes crippling legacy of George Balanchine; no choreographer anywhere today is more extraordinarily steeped in history, and not only ballet history. Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Wearing a black cape, Balanchine himself played the Threat of Polio. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z But all the Balanchine and Robbins ballets were seriously alive, while Justin Peck’s new “Everywhere We Go” — faults notwithstanding — is a truly substantial piece of work. New York City Ballet’s Spring Was Full of Revelations 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Of course, Balanchine was a poet too — of music and dance. Balanchine’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Still, her combination of technical dazzle and assertiveness remains an effective demonstration of the forceful individuality a Balanchine ballerina can display. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Tuesday brought a triple bill of the company’s three main choreographers — George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Mr. Martins. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z Yet you learn more about any of them from any five seconds of the Balanchine ballets. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z George Balanchine’s “Prodigal Son” had four casts in the season’s first two weeks. New Faces (and Bodies) in Classic Roles at New York City Ballet 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z This spring you can hear Balanchine’s ballets to Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, Symphony in Three Movements, “Danses Concertantes,” “Agon” and Movements for Piano and Orchestra, a late 12-tone work that seldom turns up in concert halls. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z Balanchine choreography was the core of every season. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Among the scaramouches were several veterans of “The Nutcracker,” and as the boys beseeched and the girls demurred they showed an already advanced understanding of how things work in a Balanchine ballet. Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Includes ‘Harlequinade’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Ah, how Balanchine, the consummate jockey — the light touch with the force of steel — held our reins! Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z Thursday’s program mixes and matches Balanchine with other quintessential City Ballet works, including Christopher Wheeldon’s “After the Rain” pas de deux. Dance Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:33:23Z The ballet company will revive the choreographer George Balanchine’s “Swan Lake,” one of its mainstays, and “Jewels.” Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Taking different elements from Balanchine ballet, from the modern dance of Martha Graham and others, and from ordinary modern urban behavior, its melting-pot lack of prejudice about what is proper to choreography is marvelous. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Revisits Three Works 2012-06-01T22:46:12Z Of rehearsals, all agreed that the Balanchine choreography is hard work. PNB students land a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ job 2014-04-02T23:39:37Z For that devilishly difficult ballet, in which she was partnered by Igor Youskevitch, Balanchine took advantage of Ms. Alonso’s technical prowess, challenging her every move. Alicia Alonso to Be Honored by Ballet Theater 2010-06-02T22:11:00Z From the early days of Balanchine at City Ballet in the 1930s audiences were introduced to new works by Schoenberg, Hindemith and Stravinsky. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z This is a ballet, courtesy of Balanchine, that really goes out with a bang. New York City Ballet Pays Homage to Jerome Robbins 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z “People in the audience whom I recognized as old Balanchine hands were gasping in disbelief. … I found it as painful a moment as I’ve ever spent in the theater.” The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s as slight as it ever was, made all the more glaring by its proximity to Balanchine’s classic, created for Ballet Theater in 1947 and set to Tchaikovsky. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z That fashion changed — and the person that many like to blame is George Balanchine, the founding choreographer of New York City Ballet, who had an outsize influence on postwar ballet in America. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z He cast her again that year as the seductive Siren opposite him in George Balanchine’s “The Prodigal Son,” and as Miranda in his own ballet “The Tempest.” Bryony Brind Dies at 55; Nureyev Lifted Ballerina’s Career 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The true triumph of the New York City Ballet’s winter season lay in no individual performance — exciting though several certainly were — but the way its corps danced some works by its co-founder George Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z “It’s different to Balanchine and they’re struggling with that, it’s hard to drill in something different to what they are used to doing.” AP gets rare peek behind curtain at famed Bolshoi Ballet 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z By turns charming, shamelessly exuberant, romantic, enigmatic, bright and dark: a spectrum of views emerged during the course of four ballets, all of which were choreographed by George Balanchine between 1954 and 1970. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z Stravinsky, taken with Balanchine’s melody, harmonized the song. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Balanchine specialized in rhythmically watertight constructions that exist in brilliantly close counterpoint with their scores. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “Architects of Time” refers to something Balanchine says in the documentary “In Balanchine’s Classroom”: “Composer is architect of time, and we have to dance to it.” Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z As he watches the creative process of his friends Stravinsky and Balanchine, he becomes inspired to begin composing again. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z True Fosseism, it seems, can fully thrive only in the abstract, Olympian realms of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z One of the programs this season was “Balanchine Black and White.” New York City Ballet, Enlivened by the New 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Tallchief was indissolubly linked with some of George Balanchine's most important works. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z Balanchine’s melody for the poem was beautiful, he said. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Excerpts from works by Ms. Clarke and George Balanchine will be performed. Dance Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:43:41Z Ms. Kretzschmar will appear in seven ballets from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, when she faces a new test: taking on the title role of the Sleepwalker in George Balanchine’s eerie, proto-goth ballet “La Sonnambula.” Rehearse, Ice Feet, Repeat: The Life of a New York City Ballet Corps Dancer 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z This made him something of a kindred spirit to his later composer colleagues Tchaikovsky and Glazunov; and, in due course, a precursor of the modernism of Stravinsky and Balanchine. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z On Thursday, Dorrance’s work gets an encore, this time matched with works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Because Balanchine places male-female romantic love at the center of each of the ballet’s four movements, the separate sections of “Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3” add up, mysteriously, to a whole. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Revisits Three Works 2012-06-01T22:46:12Z As a rule, she’s surest in roles by other choreographers; Balanchine’s classicism makes her look sentimental, as if she’s telling us how much she loves this choreography rather than showing us why it’s lovely. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z But how much justice is the company doing to Balanchine? Dance Review: At Lincoln Center, the Eternal Radical, Balanchine 2010-05-03T22:08:00Z “Balanchine recast his ballets all the time — I don’t think it’s anything unusual,” Mr. Mack said. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Set to the same Tchaikovsky music Balanchine used for “Theme and Variations,” the work, according to a program note, aims to keep the “feeling of that classic piece alive.” Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Nods to Balanchine 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z These are further signs of freshness in City Ballet’s Balanchine repertory; I wish I could see every other performance of these works this season. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z One minute into the video is a rare photo of a very young Balanchine looking unusually puckish and wildly alive. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z Balanchine and Robbins round out most of the rest of the program, naturally. Dance Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Since New York remains Balanchine’s city, I half expect to be burned at the stake for such utterances. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But is there a single woman beneath principal rank who could light up Balanchine’s most exalted roles? Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z Especially when you consider somebody could be running City Ballet that only believes in those great ballets of Balanchine or Robbins. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z Even as City Ballet wrestles over its future relationship with Mr. Martins, the Balanchine Trust — which licenses George Balanchine’s work — has given him a vote of confidence. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z They’ve been groomed since childhood to dance the style and ballets of George Balanchine; but Robbins requires valuably alternative standards. Jerome Robbins, the Experimentalist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z A major contribution arising from the Suzanne Farrell Ballet is the Balanchine Preservation Initiative, to preserve rarely performed works by the choreographer. Suzanne Farrell Ballet to disband in 2017 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z This was her first performance of a Balanchine work. Review | Ambition and glamour in Washington Ballet’s ‘Balanchine, Ratmansky, Tharp’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Yes, Ms. Vishneva danced admirably in the title role of Frederick Ashton’s three-act “Sylvia” and the lead in Balanchine’s “Ballet Imperial” — two of the most taxing roles ever made — but she did not revisit them. Review: In ‘Onegin,’ Two Star Ballerinas on Contrasting Arcs 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z What Balanchine actually wanted was for dancers to feel as though there was nothing more than a piece of onion skin between the heel and the floor. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Other Balanchine dancing has been no less distinguished. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z Every Christmas season, New York City Ballet dances “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker’” for six weeks, sometimes doing as many as 10 performances a week. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The choreography for each was by Balanchine; the music was by Mozart, Ravel and Gounod and finely played by the Workshop Orchestra, conducted with élan by Daniel Capps. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z Some theme-reinforcing passages go on too long, and plays that show artists at work are almost always embarrassing, even when it involves Balanchine choreography. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z And many of those Balanchine roles for men were without precedent or equal. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z It’s very much a product of its carefree Broadway era, and of creators still in their young prime: Rodgers was 33, Hart 40, Balanchine 32. On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars 2013-05-10T21:01:31Z A corps dancer whose only solo role hitherto has been Coffee in “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ ” she proved immediately winning in her expansive, appealing skill. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In creating their company, Balanchine and Kirstein “also created a family of which I became a part,” he said. Edward Bigelow, Dancer With the New York City Ballet, Dies at 93 2011-04-08T03:11:36Z On Tuesday, City Ballet begins a two-week celebration of the 50th anniversary of the festival, performing 14 ballets by Balanchine, Robbins and Justin Peck, to Stravinsky’s music. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But what about those dancegoers who find themselves nodding vigorously in agreement with George Balanchine’s insistence that “there are no mothers-in-law in ballet”? The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z At the diner, Davis reached across the table and pointed to an image of her mother in Balanchine’s “Pas de Dix.” Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z George Balanchine’s pure dance masterpiece “Jewels” explores three facets of ballet: “Emeralds” evokes France; “Rubies” captures an angular, energetic midcentury American modernism; and “Diamonds” conjures the courtly grandeur of imperial Russian classicism. Celebrating Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ With an International Flair 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It was believed by some — and still is — that Balanchine’s preference was for dancers with long legs and tiny heads. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Related, By Devotion, To Balanchine ON Jan. 22 I received an e-mail from an unknown address with no subject heading. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z Is it time to revise the posts that Balanchine filled? History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But when another stagehand refused to aim the spotlight on Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Balanchine had a simple solution: “He said, ‘You know, just make light brighter and don’t worry.’ Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Tharp has said that early in her career she planted an imaginary version of George Balanchine in the corner of her rehearsal studio. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The evening’s enduring image is of Balanchine’s “Serenade.” Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z The company was founded in 1964, with the choreographer George Balanchine as its artistic adviser, and two major Balanchine works were danced in last Wednesday's first-night programme. Boston Ballet – review 2013-07-06T23:06:50Z It’s been a dream of his to bring it to PNB, which has a long connection with Balanchine — “such a reassuring and comforting name,” he said, to PNB audiences. PNB to shelve its beloved version of ‘Nutcracker’ in 2015 2014-02-12T05:44:33Z While neither the lustrous Lauren Lovette nor the earnestly precise Anthony Huxley, dancing the second movement together, persuaded me that this was their ballet, their general gifts for Balanchine dancing are never in question. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z And keeping Balanchine ballets alive is just as imperative to the older generation. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z By contrast, the program placed “Estancia” between two Balanchine pieces in whose décor urban architecture plays a forceful role. Dance Review: Wild and Tamed in Wheeldon?s ?Estancia? at City Ballet 2010-05-30T22:21:00Z For Michael Sean Breeden, who recently retired from Miami City Ballet, his nightmare variation was the intensely athletic Candy Cane, performed to the fast, high-spirited “Trepak” music in George Balanchine’s version of “The Nutcracker.” What’s it like to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s a marathon of pain. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “Fête Noire” is a pleasing enough Balanchine primer, though it plays up the sense of the ensemble members as dancers in training. Dance Review: Harlem Ensemble at Jacob?s Pillow Dance Festival 2010-06-25T22:27:00Z City Ballet confirmed Ramasar’s retirement but did not offer further details, saying only that his farewell performance would be in Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” City Ballet Dancer Caught in Texting Scandal Will Retire 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Major choreographers like Massine and George Balanchine recognized Mr. Franklin as a quick learner with a sharp mind and theatrical flair. Frederic Franklin, Inventive Ballet Star, Dies at 98 2013-05-05T17:58:24Z Last weekend, however, here in its hometown, the company could be seen at full stretch in George Balanchine’s three-part “Jewels.” Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “There was no money for it all, but, typical of Balanchine and Mr. Kirstein, they just went ahead.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “The New York City Ballet was his Vatican. And George Balanchine he called his god,” said Mr. Dery, describing the breed of urbane, voracious devotee of high culture that is increasingly vanishing from Manhattan. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Thief!” about the choreography of Ashton, Balanchine and so many regional “Nutcracker” stagers are obvious. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z It delivered a clean and uncluttered performance of George Balanchine’s production of the ballet, with its vision of perfected nostalgia. Review | At the Kennedy Center (at last), Miami City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ is a perfect Thanksgiving story 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “Steps are made by a person,” Balanchine once said. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z In Balanchine, what is it like to handle the divergences between the rhythm of a musical score and the dance rhythm? Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “La Valse,” a macabre Balanchine ballet from 1951 set to waltz music by Ravel, highlighted another indelible role originated by Le Clercq. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Stirs Memories of Tanaquil le Clercq 2014-02-23T21:54:52Z She assumed she wasn’t going to become a Robbins dancer and, as she told herself, that was OK: She was working with Balanchine. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “I’m bringing in some new choreography, some new choreographers, and keeping the Balanchine tradition,” he said. This Man Is Trying to Reinvent the Pennsylvania Ballet 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Large-scale collages on grid-lined paper mingle archival photographs of dancers and choreographers — some recognizable to aficionados, such as Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine and Martha Graham — with photographs Williams made in her studio. Kandis Williams Envisions Dancing Bodies Without Borders 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s not hard to see how Balanchine’s choreography motivates a corps. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z The eagle, the Piccadilly Circus neon sign, the soccer-playing are images that Balanchine seems to have shared with all his Apollos. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Among its features, I single out the way Balanchine’s pas de deux give extensive sequences of unaccompanied dance to the ballerina, so that her returns to her partner become matters of choice and drama. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Having already been reprimanded for weight gain, Sills is called into Balanchine’s office, and he takes her hand, squeezing her fingers. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “But looking into the future with open eyes and open arms, because unfortunately Balanchine is not among us to do any more new works.” This Man Is Trying to Reinvent the Pennsylvania Ballet 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Onstage at Lincoln Center, the holiday endures for another 10 days with the magnificent conifer in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” growing nightly to impressive heights. 4 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Of his own choreography, however, Balanchine simply wrote, ‘The less I say about the ballet, the more I think you will enjoy watching it.” ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It would need more characters actually doing things, though, as in Richard Nelson’s engrossing “Nikolai and the Others,” a play also focused on the creation of art, in that case Balanchine’s. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “This will open the door to him being the gatekeeper of Balanchine all over the world,” said Mr. Mack, whose wife, Carol D. Mack, now serves on the board. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Balanchine Revealed In a Dance Inside a Play “Nikolai and the Others,” Richard Nelson’s new play at the Beaumont Theater, recreates one very particular milieu of Russophone exiles in America just after World War II. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z He won’t, however, be able to rest on his laurels when it comes to Balanchine. Dance Review: In Paris, Benjamin Millepied Rises to the Occasion 2014-05-12T10:57:39Z Its look – plain tights and leotards – and its stark modern ballet steps invoke the neoclassical choreographer George Balanchine. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z That’s why I’m so grateful to Balanchine that we can perform this piece — because it deserves to be heard. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The roles he has danced with the company include Demetrius in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the Cavalier and Hot Chocolate in Balanchine’s “Nutcracker,” Tony in “West Side Story” and Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet.” ArtsBeat: Zachary Catazaro Named a Soloist at New York City Ballet 2014-02-14T18:09:36Z The Balanchine dancers knew something that I didn’t know. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z That year Ashton and Balanchine celebrated their 75th birthdays, Cunningham his 60th. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z This connection’s most potent ingredient is the long, complex, lively, step-packed dance phrases created by both Bournonville and City Ballet’s founding ballet master, Balanchine. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In 1973, Balanchine simplified the décor and costumes with the thought that the ballet didn’t need anything extra. At New York City Ballet, the Good, the Bad and the Ruby 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Decades ago, many pieces by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham seemed windowless worlds to many observers, and still do to some; the meanings of Mr. O’Connor’s work may yet happen to me. Review: Tere O’Connor’s ‘Long Run,’ a Dance All About Dance 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z In 1957, shortly after the Little Rock school integration crisis, Balanchine cast the African-American dancer Arthur Mitchell as a Cavalier, telling him, “This is my greeting to Governor Faubus.” 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Even in these android-like movements, there is Byrd's fascination with different forms of seduction, with a pelvic thrust here, a sweet arabesque there — shout-outs to street dance and echoes of Balanchine. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z Although he has done versions of “Swan Lake” and “Romeo and Juliet,” his work is generally a more abstract response to a composition in the tradition of his predecessor George Balanchine. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z She retired in 1989 after having works created for her by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting The tree, George Balanchine knew, was not going to be cheap. The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z And although he was eyeing the next one when her illness struck, Balanchine stayed for another 13 years. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z Boston audiences see Balanchine choreography each year, but have infrequent exposure to his most sparsely decorated modernist works. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z He gained permission from the Balanchine Trust, which owns the rights to the version the company performs, just a few weeks ago. As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z There, they develop a specialty in the choreography of George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder and longtime artistic director. ‘Princes Can Be Asian, Too’: A Dancer Breaks Barriers in Ballet 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Several times during the interview Mr. Martins recalled watching Balanchine, his mentor, at work, immersed in music. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z When George Balanchine made a “Harlequinade” in 1965, he worked from his memory but also reinvented freely to suit modern tastes. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Has Charming Baubles, but Why Do It? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z How much Balanchine are we seeing, how much Taylor? City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s sparkling classical feast “Allegro Brillante” and the sass of Tharp’s “Nine Sinatra Songs” round out the bill. Washington Ballet leaps — with 4 can’t-wait-to-see programs — into grandeur 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Balanchine was said to have appreciated dancers’ falling in performance: It meant they were really going for it. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z McBride, 72, joined Balanchine’s school at 14, leapt into the New York City Ballet at 16, was a soloist by 17 and a principal by 18. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting It’s like what Balanchine used to say to his dancers: There is only now. At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky Can Let His Imagination Run Wild 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, the founders of City Ballet, “both liked her,” Mr. Mitchell said. Gloria Contreras, Choreographer Mentored by Balanchine, Dies at 81 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Martins has long been the principal inheritor of the power and the duties — teaching, choreographing, casting, commissioning, supervising, coaching — that once were Balanchine’s. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Another highlight of the evening was Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2,” a confection of sheer energy and technical brilliance, led with racehorse courage by Teresa Reichlen, with Tyler Angle and Ana Sophia Scheller. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Although I think Ms. Reichlen is the only great Balanchine Firebird of recent decades, everything about her manner is quite unlike film footage of Maria Tallchief, for whom the role was made. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z A performance like that made me glad that I’m booked to catch other Balanchine “Nutcrackers” before the season ends. Critic?s Notebook: Change Is a Constant Theme in City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? 2011-12-27T23:30:58Z His elegant technique and contemporary flair have lent themselves to an array of leading roles, including George Balanchine's “Apollo” and Jerome Robbins' “Dances at a Gathering.” A ballet superstar hits Hollywood with 'A Chorus Line' at the Bowl 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z As she said in a 2017 interview, “Balanchine is my life, my destiny.” A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Dance Project and a former New York City Ballet principal, said he sees the influence of her Balanchine training. At the Whitney Biennial, Flood Preparation as Social Dance 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z At the lunch break later that day, Balanchine took me into the darkened studio and explained that he thought rather than move the cameras, it was more time efficient to move the dancers. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z You can still feel in it that the young Mr. Taylor here is addressing America’s two then-dominant choreographers, Balanchine and Graham. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-14T22:08:35Z “Ivesiana” is a particular rarity — it was only occasionally revived even in Balanchine’s day — but it is so singularly imaginative that I urge anyone who has never seen it to catch this revival. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z Who on its staff even consults the Balanchine Foundation’s library of master class coaching sessions? A Lesson for New York City Ballet: The Past Is Always Present 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z When you realize that it records — alas, only in part — the performances of Ms. Peck and Mr. Cornejo in George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” you appreciate this festival’s extraordinary ambition. Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z In that ballet, she added, Balanchine has an angry Demetrius prepare to kick Helena — but then restrain himself. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z There are so many signature Balanchine roles shouting for her. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “There was a crazy amount to remember and get into our bodies, and Balanchine choreographed so fast — the steps just came at you.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z City Ballet is set to return to the stage on Sept. 21 with a program featuring George Balanchine’s “Serenade.” New York City Ballet Taps Diana Taylor to Lead Its Board 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z As a teenager growing up on Long Island, Meckler got to see George Balanchine’s works for the New York City Ballet, and that has influenced her career. ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Life in New York just is more complete when New York City Ballet is in residence and dancing Balanchine. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z Born in the Bronx, he established himself as one of City Ballet’s most dynamic, charismatic presences in the core Balanchine repertory and, especially, in new work. City Ballet Fires Two Male Dancers Named in Photo Sharing Scandal 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z There was also the collaboration of George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky in a 1942 “Ballet of the Elephants” for Ringling: 50 dancing showgirls and, in pink tutus, 50 dancing elephants. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z Farrell, the greatest living Balanchine star, has a sterling reputation for sensitive, compassionate and wise teaching of Balanchine ballets. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z When I came to ballet, Balanchine in New York and Ninette de Valois in London were famous for continually revising their stagings. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z His next job, he said, involves coaching works by two of City Ballet’s foundational choreographers — George Balanchine, a founder of the company, and Jerome Robbins — for Carolina Ballet. Amar Ramasar Leaves City Ballet, but Plans to Keep Balanchine Close 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z On Wednesday evening at the David H. Koch Theater, “Violin Concerto” started City Ballet’s latest tribute to the collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky this fall season. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z Later, at Town & Country, she started a series called “The Creative Environment,” for which she interviewed important figures in the arts, including I. M. Pei, Marcel Breuer, George Balanchine and Pablo Picasso. Barbara Goldsmith, Author of ‘Little Gloria,’ Dies at 85 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z For Balanchine all this fell under the title “ballet master.” Royal Ballet?s New Chief Must Find His Own Role 2011-06-24T14:19:55Z Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and many others helped to lure dancers to the city. Class Is in Session. The Teacher? Mark Morris. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The first awards went to Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers and Arthur Rubinstein — with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter sitting next to them in the presidential box. Trump’s absence at Washington’s premier social event is a relief for some. But the prestige of the presidency is missed. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Hers is an exciting company to keep rewatching season after season, because, in true Balanchine tradition, a number of dancers are given all kinds of fast-track promotions. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Shows Balanchine Pedigree - Review 2011-10-17T21:03:11Z Moments of classic works emerged, briefly and excitingly, like George Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco” and Graham’s “Chronicle,” but it was just as essential to see the effect of marking in the choreographic investigations of today. Review: Choreographic Skeletons From a Lost Pandemic Time 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Balanchine turns arithmetic and geometry into brilliant entertainment. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z What these Sarasotans are doing for Ashton is comparable to what Miami City Ballet is doing for Balanchine. Review: Sarasota Ballet Shows Its Mastery of Frederick Ashton’s Marvels 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z But how do you make ballet modern with choreographers, however talented, unused to the scale and history of Balanchine’s stage? Review: City Ballet Gets a Modern Dance Fix 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The company’s dancing of Balanchine grew dimmer, duller. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The Pennsylvania Ballet production of the Balanchine “Nutcracker” performed on Saturday, is in its 25th year. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z “Come Fly Away” makes much of a lift that Balanchine made sensational in 1957: the crotch-splitting lift with thighs and groin opening right at the audience. Isherwood and Macaulay Spar Over ?Come Fly Away? 2010-03-31T22:26:00Z Sterling Hyltin, who will retire in December — her final performance will come in “George Balanchine’s the Nutcracker” — dominated performances this season, bidding farewell to many of her repertory roles. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z To the classical ballets of George Balanchine she brings out ardently Romantic, voluptuous and daring qualities in ways we haven’t seen since Suzanne Farrell over 25 years ago. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z Dramatic interplay between self and selflessness occurs in many Balanchine ballets. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Just now it’s important to respect the renaissance of City Ballet’s skills in dancing Balanchine. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z All these characteristics apply to “Jewels,” the trilogy of plotless ballets Balanchine first choreographed for New York City Ballet in 1967, now danced by companies across America and Europe. Dance Review: The 3 Glittering Tales Balanchine Tells 2010-02-26T22:55:00Z It was at the point that its dance critic, Arlene Croce, who was then among Bob’s most valued friends, began to fulminate in print against what she saw as Martins’s inadequacies as Balanchine’s successor. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The production will be dedicated to the choreographer George Balanchine and will be accompanied by the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z There was one obstacle: the George Balanchine Trust in New York, which has stylistic approval of all Balanchine productions. Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s birthday, more honored now than in his lifetime, was on Jan. 22. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Although Mr. Martins never again took such risks in casting his “Romeo” with juvenile dancers after 2007, he often took them in the company’s central repertory of ballets by George Balanchine. Review: ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ a Movielike Ballet in Need of Better Direction 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z On Thursday the company presented ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z Balanchine, he said, loved to recall the Paris critic who, reacting negatively to the original 1928 production, said, “Whoever saw Apollo on his knees?” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z This troupe’s dancing in Balanchine is not fully alert here, but its stylistic versatility throughout these performances is a great achievement. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z She added that “it is my dream,” holding up to the screen a much-fingered book she has about him, Robert Tracy’s “Balanchine’s Ballerinas: Conversations With the Muses.” Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z In this crucial respect, Ashton — who in some ways seemed more old-fashioned than his contemporary Balanchine — was the one moving forward. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z This winter, among other things, he’ll be accompanying “Sonatine,” a pas de deux by George Balanchine set to a dreamy piano sonata by Ravel, the musical equivalent of a watercolor by Pissarro. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z There have been several other remarkable Balanchine performances in recent days. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But to get a sense of the global standing of Balanchine, 40 years after his death, other numbers might be more telling. The Long Life and Long Reach of George Balanchine’s Butterflies 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Ashton revivals enlarge the climate at Lincoln Center, prompting a more interesting compare-and-contrast: Ashton and Balanchine. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z When Balanchine finally wrote his will, he left no ballets to the company or its school, the School of American Ballet. Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It keeps adding to our understanding of Balanchine, but is not equipped to show the sides of him that Ms. Farrell herself released. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Stages Balanchine in Washington 2012-11-12T23:09:41Z Advertisement She was also connected to George Balanchine, who for a few months in 1930-31 was chief choreographer to the Royal Danish Ballet. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Dancegoers have more chances to see choreography by Balanchine than by any other choreographer, and yet rich events like this remind everybody that there’s much more to see and comprehend. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z At 17, she moved to New York and joined the branch of the prestigious Ballet Russe associated with Balanchine. The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013) 2013-04-12T21:50:43Z City Ballet is set to return to the stage on Sept. 21 with a program featuring Balanchine’s “Serenade.” City Ballet Dancer Caught in Texting Scandal Will Retire 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z In the catalogue to his Balanchine exhibition, Mr. Bigelow wrote, “If you were interested in dancing, which I was, working with Mr. Balanchine was the place to be.” Edward Bigelow, Dancer With the New York City Ballet, Dies at 93 2011-04-08T03:11:36Z The example of Balanchine is continually apparent — as is some of Mr. Andersen’s Danish heritage — and the creativity of Mr. Andersen, an apt pupil, emerges in bright details rather than bold or breathtaking new ideas. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z The backbone of “Balanchine Teaching” is a series of fourteen black-and-white photos that Lassalle took in the course of those two days. Balanchine Teaching 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But the program begins with "Theme and Variations," a classic George Balanchine ballet with music by Tchaikovsky that harks back to the imperial Russian ballet of the 19th century. ABT returns to Moscow stage after 45 years 2011-03-29T19:01:16Z “He entertains with steps” is what George Balanchine so loved about Bournonville, and the clarity of the steps was the great virtue of this program, which also included a bright rendering of “Bournonville Divertissements.” New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z None of these three are among the best-known Balanchine ballets; “Pithoprakta,” a production of the Farrell company’s Balanchine Preservation Initiative, is a true rarity, not seen for decades until Ms. Farrell revived it in 2007. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Shows Balanchine Pedigree - Review 2011-10-17T21:03:11Z “Diamonds” is Balanchine’s homage to 19th-century Petipa — especially “Swan Lake” — in which formality and refinement work in tandem to recreate the splendor of another time. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z This is a strange work, even if you know other Balanchine ballets, and yet it is some people’s favorite; others, young ones, have cited it as their moment of life-changing artistic revelation. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z You saw the dancer, and then in a trice you heard the music; but seven years ago this aspect of Balanchine dancing had virtually slipped away. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z And one particular department of Balanchine technique that needs more attention is “petit allegro,” the small beats and jumps that can never be crisp enough to register in a big theater. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z Mr. Martins became one of the company’s main ballet masters in 1981; after Balanchine’s death in 1983, he began by working in tandem with Jerome Robbins, whose ballets have been part of the company’s lifeblood. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z A signature Balanchine move — the jazzy, flopped-back high kicks from "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" — returns here in a completely different mood, now melancholy and fragile. PNB spins intimate 'Love Stories' at McCaw 2011-11-07T21:52:03Z Why did Balanchine keep the men in formal wear in the second part? Dance Review: ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’ From New York City Ballet 2012-05-21T22:16:24Z Since, however, “Pearl” is neither a City Ballet piece nor a ballet in the Balanchine tradition, Mr. Ezralow is altering the performance space, by adding that river, for one thing. For ‘Pearl,’ a 4,200-Gallon River Runs Through the Koch Theater 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Balanchine dancers move big, and company members are used to dancing in studios, not kitchens. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “Instead he chose to work for the one company where all of us regarded someone else — Balanchine — as king. And so did he.” Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Her place in Balanchine history is central: She inspired him to make some of his most radically modernist works; opened up fresh torrents of Romanticism in him; showed how old roles could be transformed. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Maybe Balanchine was waiting for Tamara, born 16 years after he died, to use this joyous, mischievous music with its melancholy interludes for her portrait of him. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z When Martins was in his 30s and had begun making ballets, Balanchine took him to lunch. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Both the dancers and the repertory were quickly revitalized, as Ms. Bennetts acquired works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and contemporary choreographers and held a choreographic competition that garnered applicants worldwide. Critic?s Notebook: Ascendant Ballet Troupe May Trip Over Finances 2011-03-18T21:57:44Z Stravinsky’s complete ballet music for “Pulcinella” ended the concert in a gesture meant to acknowledge the orchestra’s close ties to the Royal Danish Ballet and to the choreographer George Balanchine. Music Review: Danes Deliver Rare Works by a Native Son 2011-07-29T21:59:08Z That you can watch “Jewels” at either of these levels is one affirmation of Balanchine’s genius. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z Almost every ballet that Balanchine created to Stravinsky’s music, “improves the score,” said Andrew Litton, City Ballet’s music director. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Martins’s policies are at their most perplexing in the way the company dances Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z That day is still distant, but the current program at the Warner Theatre, “Balanchine, Ratmansky, Tharp,” shows progress underway. Review | Ambition and glamour in Washington Ballet’s ‘Balanchine, Ratmansky, Tharp’ 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z What cue did Balanchine hear in the music to prompt the moment when suddenly five dancers spring into vividly three-dimensional life? New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z Some of the classic Balanchine ballets such as Concerto Barocco, Jewels, Four Temperaments etc., are very modern in their musicality, dramaturgy and style. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z In the 20th century, Balanchine created what many feel are the most marvelous women’s roles in the repertory. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The evening will include a revival of George Balanchine’s “Symphony in C,” with a score by Georges Bizet, first performed at the Paris Opera Ballet in 1947. ArtsBeat: A Salute to France and World Premieres for New York City Ballet Gala 2012-03-07T18:58:20Z To George Balanchine, the choreographer who revolutionized ballet, she was both muse and, briefly, wife. The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013) 2013-04-12T21:50:43Z That September she performed her first solo role as a professional dancer, the Scherzo in Balanchine’s “ Suite No. 3,” in Paris. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z Non-narrative dances, most of them by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, are its oxygen; happily we breathe them in. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But if Balanchine said little, his body spoke. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The return of “Raymonda Variations,” after an absence of five years, is especially welcome: You see how far Balanchine is testing his dancers in point work, brio, timing. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z Balanchine had been audacious when he tackled it; the piece is a summit of absolute music and he made it into a summit of pure ballet. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z It has been a rough time for the Balanchine legacy, with the fall of Martins, Balanchine’s successor. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Why on earth were the season’s four performances of Balanchine’s “Divertimento No. 15” the first since 2011? New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “There is a ballet that is like an ocean,” she writes of Balanchine’s “Serenade.” Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z He was not a face choreographer; his favorite dancer was Fred Astaire; and if you notice, all Fred Astaire movies are full figure, and Balanchine ballets are like that. A Word With: Merrill Brockway: Merrill Brockway?s ?Dance in America? for New Generation 2011-09-16T23:59:09Z We did plenty of classical dance, a lot of Jerome Robbins and Balanchine, who I had met when he staged “The Four Temperaments” at the Opera in the 1960s. Brigitte Lefèvre, Ballet’s Disciplined Rebel, Takes Her Next Steps 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z He'll reprise that role in "Season Encore," along with a favorite Balanchine ballet, "Agon." Well-loved dancers plan final bows with Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:14:19Z Balanchine, who had been giving classical ballet an American accent for decades, in these dances made an enchanting amalgam of jazz and classicism. Dance Review: The Balanchine Way, Imprinted 2011-06-08T21:28:34Z She is the author of “Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer” and four other books. New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z In the season’s closing matinee on Sunday at the David H. Koch Theater, Ashley Bouder slashed and thundered her way through Choleric in Balanchine’s “Four Temperaments” with breathtaking force. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z When Le Clercq, known as Tanny, became the latest in a string of Balanchine’s muses, she established what became the prototypical Balanchine prima ballerina: phenomenally long-legged, gracefully athletic, passionately committed. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z This remains one of America’s most valuable companies; all those trying to grasp the many aspects of Balanchine should see it. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z She answers the door naked for Balanchine and repeatedly refers to Marlene Dietrich as “that German cow.” Exploring the France That Josephine Baker Loved 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z As the company’s Balanchine Black & White Week in May demonstrated, its founder-choreographer, George Balanchine, was often prepared to strip everything else away until musicality was virtually all that remained. Critic?s Notebook: In City Ballet?s Fall Season, a Need for Surprises 2011-10-12T17:07:24Z At the school, affiliated with New York City Ballet, performances of Balanchine works usually come with a little extra snap and crackle. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z Although City Ballet dances the Balanchine “Nutcracker” well these days in most respects, too few of its Sugar Plum Fairies exude ballerina magic; and this is a role that should enchant. Dance Review: City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? Recast for the Movies - Review 2011-12-14T22:20:55Z The author is more successful capturing Balanchine’s charm, despite his cruelty. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z The final section, “Diamonds,” is Balanchine’s homage to the grand 19th-century Petipa ballets, with their formal architecture of corps de ballet and soloists, their imperial pomp and classical purity. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z Balanchine was the 20th century’s most important heir to that tradition, and the agent of its mutation into a new modernity. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z It seems less inspired by Balanchine ballets than by pictures of Balanchine ballets. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Now she is one of a dwindling few active company dancers to have worked with Jerome Robbins and the only link to the great personalities handpicked by Balanchine. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z “It’s a scandal,” Mr. d’Amboise said, “but you know there’s a repertoire of Balanchine and Robbins that’s the best in the world.” Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. White, who has performed several of those works in Richmond, traversed the statue platform adopting signature Balanchine positions. In Richmond, Black Dance Claims a Space Near Robert E. Lee 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z With the retirement of this last Balanchine ballerina, we have all moved one generation on in history. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z This is “the eagle,” with wings spread: a crucial image that Balanchine emphasized to each male dancer. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z After all, this is a duet for Balanchine and Tchaikovsky too, and it’s magical. Dance Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Although it was sandwiched by marvelous ballets by Robbins and George Balanchine, it held its own superbly. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-30T22:13:03Z I was also thinking about works like Balanchine’s “Agon.” Kyle Abraham’s Second Act at City Ballet: Spare, Wintry, Abstract 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z There seemed to be an explosion of young men in knit caps and young women in leather pants watching as New York City Ballet recently performed a trio of Balanchine classics. New York City Ballet Applies a Surreal Touch to Build Audiences 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z “Vienna Waltzes” is the last grand spectacle that George Balanchine created for New York City Ballet. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z There’s Balanchine’s expert storytelling, with its honeyed comedy and deft interweaving of fairies and mortals. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Also performing for the first time in the territory is the New York City Ballet, which will feature works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. In Transit: Hong Kong Arts Festival Gets Interactive 2011-02-17T11:00:33Z There’s so much beauty that shouldn’t be twisted, so I try and teach them how the Petipa relates to the Balanchine. A Former Renegade Spirit Becomes a Headmistress 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Balanchine, always busy, created the ballet in bits and pieces, between rehearsals of other ballets. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Krohn’s final performance will be in George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” New York City Ballet Unveils Designers for Its Fall Fashion Gala 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The major revivals of the Balanchine Black &-White Week were exciting even when just viewed on paper beforehand: they promised the revitalization of choreography and of roles. Critic?s Notebook: In City Ballet?s Fall Season, a Need for Surprises 2011-10-12T17:07:24Z But Balanchine choreographed for, and chose for his company, dancers with a range of body types. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z New York City Ballet’s spring season, which opened Tuesday, is starting with what it calls Balanchine Black & White Week, comprising a dozen of these hard-core ballets. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z Balanchine’s “Agon” is such a taut construction that even in a hit-and-miss rendition, like Friday’s, it’s still implacable. Dance Review: City Ballet Classics, Including ?Agon? at Koch Theater 2012-02-19T22:21:20Z Since all of the choreography was created by George Balanchine, the stakes were high indeed. L.A. Ballet's ambitious all-Balanchine program leads to missteps, but also one big triumph 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This mastery of timing is one of the foundations of the Balanchine style. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z Balanchine’s choreography for eight male-female couples can sometimes evoke the Lost Generation. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z The final work, Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” is one of the world’s great ballets. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z George Balanchine’s full-length “Jewels,” new in 1967, remains a perfect education in the art of ballet — in particular the diversity of ballet as he refashioned it in the mid-20th century. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z It was Mr. Stafford, as leader of the interim team running the company, who brought in Ms. McBride to coach dancers in Balanchine’s “Divertimento from ‘Le Baiser de la Fée’” earlier this year. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But it’s fun to note the ideas and phrases that Balanchine lifted for later, now more-familiar works. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Ulbricht was all the more impressive against the two hapless couples of “Midsummer,” whose confused strife did not inspire Balanchine’s richest choreographic inventions. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z The Russian-born Balanchine, heterosexual and subtly aristocratic, embodied — and extended — the classical orthodoxy of ballet. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z And here too are several fascinating original designs for Balanchine ballets. Review: ‘Transmissions’ Evokes a Climate (Poetic, With a Chance of Ballet) 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The result, of course, is that Balanchine does, too. Review: City Ballet’s New Gods and Duos 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Andersen staged all three ballets himself, often making fascinatingly shrewd choices of textual options ignored today by most other Balanchine regisseurs. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z But there was a little bit of me that was stressed and overwhelmed and the repertory director, Katey Tracey, was like, “This isn’t ‘go and be stressed out doing Balanchine.’ The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z As it happens, the moment it captures is one of those passages Balanchine added in 1966. In Balanchine’s ‘Serenade,’ Rituals and Gestures of Autonomy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z That ballet was one of the flood of new works made by Balanchine for the Stravinsky Festival of 1972. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” is one of New York City Ballet’s biggest draws each year. Arts Groups Bet Big on Holiday Programming. Will Children Come? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” is wonderful for many reasons, but an essential one is how he brings ballet back to its roots, showing how the art form reinvents itself over and over again — starting with children. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In November 1980 in New York, Ms. Kistler made her debut in the second movement of Balanchine’s “Symphony in C,” one of the great ballerina roles. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z It’s like putting together a portable Voltaire without “Candide” or a program of the best Balanchine that omits “The Four Temperaments” or a greatest-hits album from AC/DC that neglects “Back in Black.” John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Put a man and a woman onstage, Balanchine liked to say, and you already have a story; it has been well said that his plotless ballets actually have more drama than most story ballets. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z The music is from Gounod’s opera “Faust”; in this Balanchine created — for Suzanne Farrell — a prima ballerina role of heroically inflamed rapture and powerfully packed phrases. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z Both danced for the master choreographer George Balanchine at New York City Ballet, where Mr. d’Amboise was a star. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z As Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and Mark Morris all observed, you cannot have abstraction where there are human beings on a stage. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z The camera pulls back through the doorway leaving Garcia behind as it makes its way backstage for an excerpt from Balanchine’s “Duo Concertant.” Review: Sofia Coppola Brings New York City Ballet Back to Life 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Both the dancers and the repertory were quickly revitalized, as Ms. Bennetts acquired works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, contemporary choreographers and held a choreographic competition that garnered applicants worldwide. Dance: Tough Passage for Flemish Ballet Troupe 2011-03-14T12:00:06Z All the more reason to savor this company and its farewell appearance, titled “Forever Balanchine,” a fine program of works by Farrell’s mentor and New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Though Balanchine looked back on “Apollo” as a milestone ballet from which he learned, in later years he went through many seasons without reviving it. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z While the Mariinsky's stock repertory of 19th-century classics may be good for the box office, it's a relief finally to see them in the less familiar world of Robbins and Balanchine. Mariinsky Ballet: Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-05T15:12:21Z Likewise, he twinkled about once having had to inform Jerome Robbins of a decision Balanchine had made that overruled Robbins: Bob described himself as having been, on that occasion, “the messenger of the gods.” Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The many highs of the six-week New York City Ballet season that ends on March 1 have included memorably inflected performances of central classics by George Balanchine, not least “Serenade” and “Concerto Barocco.” Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Her example was a beacon within the company Balanchine had created, New York City Ballet, not least during the years immediately after his death in 1983. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Quiet, patient and endlessly inventive, Balanchine was the idol of so many dancers who knew him. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Virgil, Shakespeare, Mozart, Balanchine were all heavily derivative. 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z Pacific Northwest Ballet’s afternoon performance of George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” on Dec. 21 will feel a bit different from a typical production. Seattle-area sensory-friendly performances allow people with disabilities to enjoy the show 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Fairchild will dance two more performances with City Ballet in the fall, appearing in George Balanchine’s “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” on Oct. Robert Fairchild to Spin Briefly Back to City Ballet 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet I think Tchaikovsky would have looked at Balanchine’s ballet and gasped in admiration: it’s like rewriting history. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The way that the culture has been changed by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham — the quicksilver Mercurys of 20th-century dance — cannot be overstated. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The manuscript is inscribed in Stravinsky’s hand: “Birthday choral tune by George Balanchine, harmonized by Igor Stravinsky, Hollywood, California, June 18, 1946.” Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z A change of pace came when Balanchine invited Ms. Hinkson to dance with his company’s black star, Arthur Mitchell, in Balanchine’s new “Figure in the Carpet” at the New York City Ballet in 1960. Mary Hinkson, a Star for Martha Graham, Dies at 89 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z But her body, outgrowing the willowy Balanchine ideal, soon gave her cause. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z The speed, stretch, off-balance audacity and attack that Balanchine and his fellow teachers demanded of their dancers soon reached levels that were extraordinary, exemplary and — hurrah! — controversial. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The New York native trained under famed instructor George Balanchine, going on to sing and dance on Broadway. Dancer Bethune killed in accident 2012-02-14T13:26:07Z Later, in New York, Balanchine models the movements he wants Mr. Baryshnikov to imitate in “Prodigal Son,” and Robbins coaches the star and his partner Natalia Makarova in a dance he created specifically for them. Baryshnikov Packs Up His Memories in Boxes 2011-10-05T21:45:13Z Although the jazzy, percussive “Second Detail” is worlds away from the elegiac sweep of that ballet, Mr. Forsythe’s Balanchine heritage is utterly clear in this work, created for the National Ballet of Canada in 1991. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z In it, Balanchine challenged her to run as fast as she could, to bend as much as possible and to fly — to not touch the ground. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z There are several “Nutcracker” productions around the United States that exemplify how to successfully make choices different from Balanchine’s. Review: Pick a ‘Nutcracker,’ One From Balanchine, the Other Reimagined 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z He designed sets for several ballets by Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet. David Mitchell, Broadway Set Designer, Dies at 79 2011-10-05T01:56:33Z Yet there’s also no question that Balanchine also departed from the play in several directions that are, brilliantly and audaciously, his own. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z Yet at the matinee on Dec. 19, her Sugar Plum had lightness, liquidity and clarity; Tchaikovsky and Balanchine were waking Ms. Pereira’s potential. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z After the death of Balanchine in 1983, Mr. Martins took over leadership of the company with Jerome Robbins; in 1989, he became the sole ballet master in chief. Peter Martins Retires From New York City Ballet After Misconduct Allegations 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The troupe’s Balanchine style is milder in dynamics than New York City Ballet’s, but the dancers fill the theater with light, radiant, musical dancing. Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z She watched rehearsals for Balanchine classics, including “The Nutcracker,” and a new work by Justin Peck, with the choreography and the lines of the dancers informing her work. When These Lines Are Drawn, Artist and Dancers Connect 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The second program, all Balanchine ballets set to Stravinsky, featured a weak link too: “Duo Concertant.” At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In the last three years of his life, Balanchine created new roles for Mr. Andersen in “Ballade,” “Davidsbündlertänze” and “Mozartiana” and taught him “Apollo” personally. Desert Sun No Shortage Of Inspiration 2012-02-19T05:00:15Z In the same company’s November season he took the lead male role in Balanchine’s “Source” as well as the Harlequin in “La Sonnambula” with irresistible verve. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z In several ballets by Balanchine, the company’s level of style, musicality and energy bore comparison to Balanchine’s own New York City Ballet. At Dance Theater of Harlem, Where’s the ‘Theater’? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Full-length Balanchine works in the Boston Ballet’s repertoire include “Coppélia,” “Jewels” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Boston, Pennsylvania ballets have many similarities at 50 On Tuesday, as on almost every occasion I have watched “Jewels” over 40 years, I noted further marvels of Balanchine’s skill in construction. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Balanchine, to take another example, put stock in a theatrical ideal of womanhood, and an appreciation of the female form and its allure, along with his obvious technical hallmarks of musical clarity, line and speed. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z She referred to her mentor as “Balanchine,” “Mr. Balanchine” and sometimes “Mr. B.” After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Balanchine remains famous for dressing many of his ballets in minimal attire. Review: Balanchine, the Storyteller: Frisson Is in the Details 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The season will feature Balanchine classics like “Serenade” and “Prodigal Son,” as well as several world premieres, including by Alexei Ratmansky, the renowned choreographer, who joins the company in August as artist in residence. New York City Ballet to Honor Past and Present in 75th Year 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z On Sept. 29, he danced Balanchine’s “Allegro Brillante” with Ms. Peck as if bringing it fresh from the mint, with terrific brio. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z And by bringing the George Balanchine “Nutcracker” back to Los Angeles, the Music Center and Miami and made the venture absolutely indispensable despite its flaws. In a season full of 'Nutcracker,' the brilliance of Balanchine shines through 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Hosted by Daniel Ulbricht, a principal dancer with the troupe, this hourlong presentation will introduce that elf and other characters as the company performs excerpts from George Balanchine’s adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z That classic is George Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations,” an elegant exercise in stamina that he made for Ballet Theater in 1947. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Have certain Balanchine steps and certain Balanchine roles ever been better danced than they were in the six-week season by New York City Ballet that ended on Sunday? Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z Between January and June, New York City Ballet made its greatest advances in 20 years with its Balanchine repertory. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z The Paris Opera administration tried to fill a creative gap by inviting guest choreographers, including Balanchine for eight months. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z During his school years, Balanchine performed both the parts of the hero, Luke, and the wealthy suitor, the Marquis, and he must have remembered the ballet fondly. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z This season she even brought a dash of Grace Kelly to the Stripper role in Balanchine’s “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” — elegant, knowing and a little sly as she sliced her long legs into the air. A City Ballet Star Bids Farewell to the ‘Crazy Ballerina Life’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In the next photo, Balanchine shows how, in landing from a jump, the dancer bends her knee to catch her weight but never brings her heel fully down to the floor. Balanchine Teaching 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z “Suddenly we did exist,” as one dancer told me when Balanchine created “Kammermusik No. 2,” with its all-male corps de ballet. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z Though he never worked directly with George Balanchine, who died in 1983, Mr. Evans was known in particular as an interpreter of that choreographer’s work. Albert Evans, Ebullient City Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 46 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Balanchine told dancers, “Don’t think, dear, do,” which inspired the title of Alice Robb’s memoir, “Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet” — though she leaves off the most important word, “do.” Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Balanchine said of his work: “In the first act, it is the real people who are dancing. In the second act, it is their souls.” Review: Sofia Coppola Brings New York City Ballet Back to Life 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s possible that this kind of ballet more or less ended with Balanchine’s death in 1983. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Harrison Ball, in his debut as Puck, finds his best Balanchine role to date. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z George Balanchine remains its core choreographer, and no living choreographer has played a more vital contribution than Twyla Tharp. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z She found out when she saw her first ballet: Balanchine’s “Serenade,” a mysterious work tinged with romance and sadness. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet “In an imperfect world, an imperfect Balanchine ‘Nutcracker’ is still cause for celebration.” Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Balanchine didn’t seem to want any single power over his works. Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z There are tales of how Balanchine was delighted by her rhythmic freedom as she reaccentuated passages of old choreography and thereby rejuvenated them. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z So, more than 20 years later, it tickled Bob that he now found himself a position to ask both Fonteyn and Balanchine how she had coped. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z “Go for Barocco,” a Balanchine parody, remains the wittiest work in the repertory, all dance jokes and timing. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, at 40, at the Joyce 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z When “Symphony in C,” a core Balanchine ballet absent for three years, was revived in May, those tendus looked dismayingly tame. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z I watched both Saturday’s performances of this program; both the Ashton and Balanchine works repay infinite viewings. Dance Review: Ballet Across America at Kennedy Center 2013-06-09T21:01:30Z Writing about “Apollo,” Balanchine described his discovery of family relations among steps; it’s true among his works, too. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Balanchine adapted “Slaughter” from his 1936 Broadway musical “On Your Toes,” with music by Richard Rodgers — lots of cymbals — and it’s little more than a lively romp of intentionally campy Broadway tropes. Review | This ballerina played the role of a stripper, and she owned it 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Bob’s beloved Fonteyn, however, was not a Balanchine dancer. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z I watched the whole festival with the longing of a Balanchine admirer born too late for the City Center years, but when the syncopations were bouncing to Bach, I wasn’t thinking of history. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The company has long been America’s foremost exponent of what has been called the Holy Trinity of classical ballet: Petipa the Father, Balanchine the Son, Ashton the Holy Ghost. The Changing Shape of American Ballet Theater 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The ballets of George Balanchine are fascinating layer cakes of history. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z The experience of Balanchine choreography in performance is as intensely multilayered as anything in the arts. Dance Review: Balanchine Evening Ignites City Ballet Winter Season 2014-01-22T22:40:35Z She has been happily diverse, ranging from the full classicism of George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and the 19th-century classics to the bold, slangy charm of several ballets by Twyla Tharp. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Even though those ballets, which were bookends for the program, are separated by nearly 20 years — the first is tough, the second more silken — they are quintessential Balanchine. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z Mr. Mitchell was the first black principal dancer at New York City Ballet, where George Balanchine, in 1957, choreographed “Agon,” a ballet featuring a pas de deux with Mr. Mitchell and Diana Adams. Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The critic David Vaughan once wrote that the ABC of contemporary classicism was Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham. Three Stars of World Dance Traditions Converge on New York 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z As with most later stagings of Petipa, they were loosely based on the original — Balanchine made up his own steps, “in the style of” Petipa — but none made any claim of authenticity. In ‘Harlequinade,’ Gestures Dance, and Dances Tell Stories 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Balanchine was ever pragmatic in how best to accomplish beauty. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z There is a quotation, frequently attributed to Ms. Kistler, in which Balanchine instructed her not to think but just to dance. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z Choreographers including George Balanchine relied on Franklin to keep their tradition alive, Ausman said. Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98 2013-05-05T21:28:13Z Why would a dancer who never took a class from Balanchine want to make a film about his teaching? Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z And it encouraged the audience to listen acutely, an aspect of dancegoing that, though fundamental with Balanchine choreography, is too often overlooked. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z The film tells the story of Ms. Ashley’s career: 30 years with New York City Ballet, some of which were spent dancing for George Balanchine. Dance on Camera Festival to Offer 20 Feature Films 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z After many seasons of dancing Puck in the Balanchine “Midsummer,” he showed a new side of himself — valiant, authoritative — when he was given the chance to play Oberon in 2015. 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Now the company is once more at a turning point, just as it was when Balanchine died. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Here was the separation of each finger to create the flowerlike fullness that Balanchine loved in the feminine hand. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But these works — especially “Movements,” in which Balanchine keenly answers Stravinsky’s rhythms with his own — need a yet more acute sense of time. Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z Generally, dancers join City Ballet to dance the works of Balanchine. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z All of the things we think about with Balanchine, she makes those things so crystal clear. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z But while there were a few hesitant moments, the musicians aptly conveyed the tuneful spontaneity and energy of this Mozartian work, which George Balanchine used for one of his ballets. Marius Constant Work on Riverside Symphony Program 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But until now, if you lived in Anchorage or Omaha or Tulsa, you weren't able to see what many consider the Nutcracker gold standard: the late George Balanchine's classic production for New York City Ballet. Popcorn and snowflakes: 'Nutcracker' at the movies 2011-12-09T22:16:13Z He also captured scenes of everyday life and shot countless portraits of luminaries including Henri Matisse, William Faulkner and George Balanchine. Cartier-Bresson rare prints going to NYC auction 2012-09-04T17:22:09Z Only in the finale does Balanchine suddenly draw the threads tight. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z But this additional scene in Balanchine’s version is in every way extraordinary. Critic’s Notebook: Inspired by Tchaikovsky in New York and London 2013-12-18T22:50:55Z “The last Balanchine ballerina retires,” mourned Sunday morning news shows. Review: ‘Girl Through Glass’ leaps to the peak of the dance world 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z He was remarkably independent minded, yet he subordinated his life to the vision of one other artist in particular, the choreographer George Balanchine. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z And part of the revelation that followed was the thrilling way that Balanchine — dressed that day in a suit — showed the role’s inner life. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The casting of central roles in the Balanchine and Nijinsky works added further problems. Boston Ballet Visits New York With a Bulging Suitcase 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But Ms. Fairchild’s social media post guides us to the gold at its heart: Ms. McBride brings “nuggets of wisdom” about what Balanchine said that illumine a ballet that Ms. Fairchild has already loved dancing. Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s sometimes claimed that this is a minor work that Balanchine knocked off in 1973 for the farewell performance of Melissa Hayden. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z Part of Balanchine’s brilliance — and there’s much to choose from — was his way of reacting to the moment, his ability to bring real life into the ballet. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In 1997 — on Jan. 22, the birthday of George Balanchine, City Ballet’s co-founder — the new ballet, “Brandenburg,” set to a selection from Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, finally made its debut. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Balanchine, Ashton’s exact contemporary, was the choreographer he admired most. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “The choreography was very difficult, the music was very difficult, but Balanchine had so much energy, so much enthusiasm and was so calm that he gave you confidence,” she said. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Like the Balanchine “Nutcracker,” Act I of “Midsummer” is all story, Act II all dance. Review: New York City Ballet, With Heartfelt Pas de Deux, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Their connection, and Balanchine’s devotion and closeness to Stravinsky, are evident in “Duo.” Only Connect: Yearning for the Intimacy of a Danced, Onstage World 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z When Mr. Martins — then still a principal dancer at City Ballet — was being groomed as Balanchine’s heir in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he made one critically acclaimed ballet after another. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z On Wednesday — Balanchine’s 110th birthday — “Jewels” returned to the David H. Koch Theater with New York City Ballet, the company for which he created it. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z Any Balanchine ballet is worth watching, but this one, for all its youthful brio, never really coalesces. Balanchine Turns 116 This Week. His Ballets Never Get Old. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Last season, the company worked on George Balanchine’s haunting ballet “Emeralds,” but I can’t recall having heard his name mentioned once. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z Mr. Andersen’s own story is the stuff of ballet legend: Before auditioning for City Ballet at George Balanchine’s request in 1980, he was the youngest principal dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet. Desert Sun No Shortage Of Inspiration 2012-02-19T05:00:15Z He may well end up lasting longer than the 35 years enjoyed by the company’s founding ballet master, George Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z Why, however, is Ms. Whelan, in Balanchine’s “Union Jack,” the only interpreter of a role to which she has been consistently ill-suited for 18 years? Critic?s Notebook: In City Ballet?s Fall Season, a Need for Surprises 2011-10-12T17:07:24Z It was at City Ballet that he was treated as a potential heir to Balanchine and given the opportunities to prove himself the longed-for solution to the what-to-do-after-Balanchine problem. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in New ?Carillons? at Koch Theater 2012-01-29T23:23:55Z He spent much of his career at City Ballet — at Balanchine’s invitation — where he choreographed more than 50 ballets, from 1949 to 1997. City Ballet Season to Feature Jerome Robbins Celebration 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “Stravinsky was Balanchine’s closest creative collaborator, and his music is the lifeblood of the company.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Kendall is a dance historian, whose books include “Where She Danced” and “Balanchine and the Lost Muse.” Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s expansiveness is sublime; Ashton’s concentration is intoxicating. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z The company, rising to the challenges of Balanchine Black and White Week, its spring season opener, is largely in fine form. Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z Other companies, like PNB and Miami City, do Balanchine works just as well, if not better. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z I am not a ballet dancer, but a lot of my early training was from people who taught and studied Balanchine technique. Kyle Abraham’s Second Act at City Ballet: Spare, Wintry, Abstract 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z This Balanchine program has two performances alone; a triple bill of Contemporary Innovators follows on Friday and Saturday. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And while the Balanchine enterprise has spawned companies across America and influenced others around the world, City Ballet and the School of American Ballet have remained central to the Balanchine practice. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Why don’t we see George Balanchine’s exquisite pas de deux “Sonatine” more often at New York City Ballet? Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The notion of a Balanchine body stuck, and created a template for what people think a ballet dancer should look like. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The Balanchine “look” was extraordinary thinness, and Sills, apologizing all the while, reveals the mental torture that enforced it. Balanchine and Cunningham: The Titans of 20th-Century Dance 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z On Sept. 30, she made her debut in Balanchine’s “Mozartiana,” with Chase Finlay as her partner, and Anthony Huxley bringing new illumination to the ballet’s most elusive role of all, the Gigue. New York City Ballet’s Powerfully Eventful Fall Season 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t it make all the difference to give us at least one major revival of a big, full-throttle Balanchine ballet that hasn’t been seen in a while? Critic?s Notebook: In City Ballet?s Fall Season, a Need for Surprises 2011-10-12T17:07:24Z Balanchine created this work as a bouquet for his corps, for they are the true stars, aligning and wheeling off, realigning and dissolving anew, like currents of the music made visible. A triumph from the Suzanne Farrell Ballet 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z It will be devoted to solos for male dancers by Balanchine, who is perceived has having focused more on female dancers. City Ballet Creates A Troupe For Touring 2011-01-06T22:45:21Z He was telling me how hugely he admired Balanchine’s musicality, that he’d seen the New York City Ballet’s Concerto Barocco not long ago and been awed by it. My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Balanchine did more than any other choreographer to make women sublime, and this was achieved without simplifying them. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z City Ballet’s winter season begins on Tuesday with a week of works by George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder and lodestar. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Balanchine would say, ‘Ballet is not the step, it’s what happens in between the steps.’ A Word With: Merrill Brockway: Merrill Brockway?s ?Dance in America? for New Generation 2011-09-16T23:59:09Z The archival footage of Balanchine’s company in its prime becomes the visual relief to their verbal frustration, the magnificent evidence that it is possible to master an indescribable method. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The most curious addition, however, will be the new sets and costumes by the Cuban designers Isabel and Ruben Toledo for “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Whereas “Giselle” or most ballets by George Balanchine come round often enough for many people to feel acquainted with them, few people have ever had the chance to become truly familiar with any Cunningham repertory. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z Diaghilev’s mixed feelings for George Balanchine get short shrift too. Books of The Times: The Protean Master of the Ballets Russes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z George Balanchine, the Russian choreographer and a founder of New York City Ballet, did pretty much the same thing. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z “Part of it was he wanted to protect his ballet masters who were there when Balanchine was there, as opposed to bringing in someone else who might have different opinions,” Mr. Stafford said. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In the mountingly climactic passage that Balanchine uses in his version for the magical growth of the Christmas tree, we get the mice tossing Clara’s doll around for an endless time. A Proudly Unsentimental ‘Nutcracker’ at Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z As for the Balanchine ballets, they release something that seems larger than humanity: spirit made visible. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Balanchine could not figure out the counts for “Symphony in Three Movements” until two weeks before the premiere. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Exemplary musicality was particularly welcome on Tuesday’s program, which, in honor of Balanchine’s birthday, celebrated his landmark collaborations with Igor Stravinsky. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Though only in its third week, “La Sonnambula” was already the 22nd piece to be seen, and the 17th by Balanchine. Dance Review: From the Classical World of Apollos and Fauns to a Romantic Passion 2011-05-19T21:29:13Z Discussing the experience of working with Broadway veterans used to detailed discussion of motivation, Ms. Whelan laughed as she alluded to Balanchine’s oft-quoted maxim “Don’t think dear, just do.” Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z This version of the choreography is dated 1972, but Balanchine is revisiting the 1940s. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z But then I was one of the students from the Washington School of Ballet chosen to perform with the Washington Ballet in George Balanchine’s unforgettable “Serenade” at the Kennedy Center. Readers Recall Their First Creative Crush 2013-09-01T21:08:08Z Most Balanchine ballets are to fully orchestral scores. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z Her work with the company has established Ms. Farrell as a tireless Balanchine preservationist and one of the foremost interpreters of the great choreographer’s work today. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z George Balanchine The choreographer George Balanchine built a legacy at New York City Ballet and was among those who made New York a ballet capital. Perpetual Motion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The books and the podcast are focused on Balanchine’s era, which ended with his death in 1983, and into the 1990s. Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z She also watched some Balanchine dances on video. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z What this demonstrates is that Balanchine changed the look of women in ballet beyond most people’s imaginings. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z It is how Balanchine is still referred to by many dancers at City Ballet, and it is what her grandfather Arch J. Bergoffen was called at his tinsel business. A ‘Midsummer’ Costume Redo 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The writer Elizabeth Kendall shares excerpts from her book, “Balanchine & the Lost Muse,” and the budding choreographer and City Ballet dancer Troy Schumacher offers two premieres inspired by the young Balanchine’s creative choices. Dance Listings for April 11-17 2014-04-10T22:58:08Z She not only seems to be the least exhausted mother of three young children that I have ever seen, top ballerina or not, but she also epitomizes another Balanchine saying: “There is only now.” The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Each year since Balanchine’s death in 1983, his legacy has become more vulnerable. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s a little like “The Unanswered Question” section of George Balanchine’s “Ivesiana,” except less creepy and more anodyne: a child’s dream, aided by others. Review: Lift Me Up (but Where?). A Dance of Escape and Connection. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z This element of ballet struck me anew when I saw a recent City Ballet performance of Balanchine’s “Serenade,” in which the choreography teases out the elegant complexities of Tchaikovsky’s familiar Serenade for Strings. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z Balanchine was the exemplar of that principle, he says. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Donizetti Variations,” a buoyant Balanchine ballet, is like a constantly revving engine and perfectly suited to Ms. Fairchild’s soubrette qualities. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Balanchine and Robbins Program 2012-01-27T22:23:54Z The evergreen sweetness of George Balanchine’s 1962 ballet of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has many sources. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Nodding Off With the Mortals 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Yet there are many ways to stage a score; Balanchine himself did not employ one method alone when responding to music. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z This version of the ballet, choreographed in 1974 by George Balanchine for New York City Ballet, has rarely been seen outside of New York — and, di Bagno thinks, never redesigned. A new 'Copp?lia' comes to life at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2010-05-28T01:00:00Z The music is based on an acrostic poem the choreographer George Balanchine wrote in 1946 as a birthday present for the composer Igor Stravinsky. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Dark things may happen, Balanchine seems to say again and again, but in the regime of ballet you will find renewal. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z Mr. Vaziev called Balanchine “the most genius choreographer of the 20th century,” and noted that he hoped to present more of his work. The Bolshoi, Under the Exacting Eye of Makhar Vaziev 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The duet, choreographed by Balanchine in 1957 for Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams, is built on tension and circus-feat-like partnering moves. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The pure-dance choreography of Balanchine can be regarded as the supreme achievement of ballet to date without offering a sure model for other choreographers. Dance: Premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z They were also complete works; the older selections were excerpts, starting with three solos performed by New York City Ballet dancers from George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?” Review: Calvin Royal III and Dormeshia Glow at Fall for Dance 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z “Monumentum Pro Gesualdo” and “Movements for Piano and Orchestra,” two ballets that formed the program’s centerpiece, along with “Duo Concertant,” are extreme examples of Balanchine and Stravinsky’s ability to home in on austere beauty. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z PNB will combine Balanchine’s choreography, now performed by the New York City Ballet and several other companies around the country, with new sets and costumes designed by Ian Falconer, author of the “Olivia” children’s books. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z This is the gold standard “Nutcracker,” performed by New York City Ballet every year since George Balanchine premiered his version in 1954. Missing ‘The Nutcracker’? How to Get Your Holiday Fix at Home 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The new film “In Balanchine’s Classroom,” directed by Connie Hochman, focuses on the teaching of the groundbreaking choreographer — and how it instilled his dances at New York City Ballet with articulate, musical brilliance. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Last season alone, he made role debuts in Jerome Robbins’s “Afternoon of a Faun” and George Balanchine’s “Agon.” In City Ballet Shake-Up, One Dancer Out and Two Suspended 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The performances seen from the fourth ring — including George Balanchine’s classic “Four Temperaments” on my very first night — were among the most revelatory of my life. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z In “The Four Temperaments” Balanchine asks courage of a different kind from the dancers: coolly urgent, as if driven. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z In a thrilling and ambitious project, the theater is presenting 13 significant works by the company’s co-founder, George Balanchine, that had premieres on its stage. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The company’s leadership insists that it wants to continue the Balanchine tradition with its next artistic leader, whom the board expects to name by the spring. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z The principal ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq was both muse and wife to the legendary Russian choreographer George Balanchine when, at 27, she contracted polio. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z Her marriage to Balanchine had been annulled on the grounds that he did not want children. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z I’m among those who think of Nijinsky and Balanchine as master choreographers, and Mr. Elo and Mr. Kylian as objectionable; and yet, all four works challenged any conventional notions of choreographic musicality. Boston Ballet Visits New York With a Bulging Suitcase 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z There’s no equality in the work space and little of the freedom that Balanchine conferred upon his women. Duets That Reflect the World Offstage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z So has most of the current season’s repertory to date — especially the revival of Balanchine’s 1954 ballet “Ivesiana,” which so valuably honors Charles Ives, one of the most lastingly original of all American composers. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Season Gala, With Robbins and Balanchine 2013-05-09T21:10:33Z Balanchine did everything in his power to help restore her agility, to no avail. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z This impersonal approach, so alien to many notions of ballet artistry, is often a central part of the Balanchine experience. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In this staging, by Rosemary Dunleavy and Arch Higgins, we were ideally caught between Balanchine’s mesmerizing mastery of changing geometric patterns and the image of bright, youthful graciousness embodied by each couple. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z On a program including works by George Balanchine and Bronislava Nijinska, “The Four Moons” was created to honor the histories of these tribes as they were forced from their land and settled in Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z This program, to be hosted by the company principal Jared Angle, will include excerpts from works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, including “Apollo,” “Danses Concertantes” and “Rubies.” Spare Times for Children for Oct. 5-11 2012-10-04T22:49:01Z With the prodigality that makes it unlike all other ballet troupes, it offers four different programs in this week alone, including nine works by Balanchine. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z A pride of debuts occurred the previous weekend in the five scenes of Balanchine’s “Vienna Waltzes.” Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z The season, which will feature some 160 performances, will open on Sept. 19 with Balanchine’s pure-dance triptych “Jewels.” New York City Ballet to Honor Past and Present in 75th Year 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z She was on tour with Balanchine in Russia during the Cuban missile crisis. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting One of Hochman’s greatest challenges was to unearth film of Balanchine. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The party scene’s iconic Christmas tree, which Balanchine considered the heart of his ballet, hangs like tiers of a sloppily frosted wedding cake. Review: Peel away some of the packaging, and Music Center's 'Nutcracker' reveals its gifts 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The musicality of Balanchine’s choreography is often — lazily — spoken of as if there were something inevitable about it, as if the music explained every movement. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z Perhaps it was a memory of his forceful elegance when dancing George Balanchine ballets like “Agon” in the 1970s. Ballet Leaders Allowed Peter Martins to Act With Impunity, Dancers Say 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z That is one surprise, but the biggest surprise in the book, for me, was a photo of Balanchine in a jump. Balanchine Teaching 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z What I longed for, again, was a freshening for the Balanchine faithful — maybe, for one performance, a reconstruction of the notoriously outré original costumes? City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “We’re kind of the last generation that is in touch with the people who worked directly with Balanchine and Robbins,” he said. Once ‘Little Joe,’ Now a Reigning New York City Ballet Principal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The Music Center and Miami City Ballet will present a new production of George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” featuring children from two local dance schools. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “It’s a composition I so much admire,” Balanchine said, and he went on to praise Stravinsky’s craftsmanship. ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z George Balanchine made “Theme and Variations” for the company in 1947. Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z In all these items the sheer authority of the choreography by both Robbins and Balanchine was thrilling, with each master not just responding to American music but also revealing it. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Season Gala, With Robbins and Balanchine 2013-05-09T21:10:33Z “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” begins, as so many Balanchine ballets do, with a tableau, while the music is already chugging away. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z Add the elegance of the previous night’s Balanchine program, which alternates with this one, and you have a ballet company whose arsenal of talent and art is unlike any other. New York City Ballet’s life-affirming new works boost the spirit 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Could “Balanchine: The City Center Years,” a six-program retrospective, get even close to suggesting its dimensions? City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z So it fascinated Bob that she, in 1950, had danced Balanchine’s “Ballet Imperial” when she was in her prime, with Balanchine coaching her. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z You see the language and structure it shares with other, more sophisticated Balanchine ballets, but you’re also shown, very precisely, what is most singular about it. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z In these four pieces, Balanchine redefined the Romantic-classical quintessence of ballet: chivalrous, fervent and sparkling. New York City Ballet Performs Tchaikovsky-Balanchine Works 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z She introduced him to her small church group, and on Valentine’s Day in 2020, they went to a performance of Balanchine’s “Rubies” by Ballet Austin. In Clark Kent Mode, He Was Still Super Appealing 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z I’d like to send all Tchaikovsky lovers to the ballets Balanchine made to his music; I’d also like these works to be seen by those people who think that Tchaikovsky is just an overblown Romantic. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z It was Kirstein who labored to ensure the school and the company would outlive Balanchine. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Watching it again, I marveled at how Balanchine, so many of whose ballets are in repertory, comes up with details that occur nowhere else. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The usual choreographic response to concertos, following the Balanchine model, uses the full dance company in the fast outer movements but focuses the slow movement on a sustained supported adagio or pas de deux. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z Jerome Robbins was feted in this program last April, which also featured fine performances of Frederick Ashton’s “Symphonic Variations” and Balanchine’s “Serenade.” 2018’s best dance: A year when human warmth burned brightly 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, at the David H. Koch Theater — with no intermissions and a vaccinated audience that was told to remain masked — City Ballet parted the curtain on its fall season with Balanchine’s “Serenade.” Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z “George Balanchine is apparently in the grip of a severe attack of nostalgia,” he wrote. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z A romantic work for four couples at a club, it used to look like a lazy update of Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Walzer” for dancers who weren’t worthy of that far more intricate and eloquent masterpiece. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z After she performed Balanchine’s one-act “Swan Lake” at the School of American Ballet Workshop Performances in 1980, reaction in the ballet world was ecstatic. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z After her own training with Marcia Dale Weary at Youth Ballet, she credits Suki Schorer — still a faculty member at the school — for providing her with a bridge into the world of Balanchine. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z This sampler of scenes from other ballets by the Danish master was originally staged by the late Stanley Williams, the Danish-trained teacher of many Balanchine stars, including Martins. New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But unlike Balanchine and Cunningham, Nikolais was interested in sleight-of-hand and eye, in visual illusion rather than the expansion of a dance vocabulary. Dance Review: Celebrating Alwin Nikolais at the Joyce Theater 2010-05-05T23:06:00Z Since Lauren Lovette, who graduated from the company’s School of American Ballet in 2009, has made a strong impression in ballets by everyone else, why does she get no Balanchine solo? Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z The Balanchine style can sometimes seem the “only way for ballet to develop,” Mr. Ratmansky added. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z Would you ever consider making a film of a company like New York City Ballet performing a George Balanchine work? Putting ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ in Motion 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The company, almost halfway through its four-week fall season, is being characteristically bounteous with repertory by its founder-choreographer, George Balanchine, which in turn is bounteous with ballerina roles. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z All balletgoers sooner or later hear the tale of how, when Balanchine began to choreograph “Serenade” in 1934, a girl fell over in rehearsal. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z George Balanchine crouches, looking slightly incredulous, as his cat flies into the air in an implausibly high, improbably balletic leap. The Week Ahead: April 25 ? May 1 2010-04-23T14:59:00Z Though Balanchine and Robbins died in the last century, we can still feel the immense structural risks they took in these works. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Revisits Three Works 2012-06-01T22:46:12Z He immediately applied to become part of the Balanchine enterprise, and Balanchine brought him on board. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z As an example, she noted that Balanchine created “Stars and Stripes” around the same time that Jasper Johns was painting his flags. New Center at N.Y.U. Focuses on Dance and the Arts 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Many of the roles in which he cast her were designed to extend her technique and artistry and transform her into the prototype Balanchine ballerina. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z Though exiled from Balanchine’s company, Ms. Farrell never quit Balanchine. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z In a phone interview on Tuesday, Mr. Mitchell said that Balanchine would critique her work. Gloria Contreras, Choreographer Mentored by Balanchine, Dies at 81 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As many New Yorkers know, Bolender, who died in 2006, was an important Balanchine dancer for many years; his work as artistic director of Kansas City Ballet did much to give it its current prominence. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z Balanchine brought many women to the top, and yet neither he nor Kirstein considered one to be his successor. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He and Stravinsky were friends for decades; Balanchine applied himself repeatedly to Stravinsky’s music between the 1920s and the early ’80s. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Doubtless he’s steeped in Balanchine, Robbins and others, but he isn’t wearing them on his sleeve. Dance Review: Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases,’ by New York City Ballet 2012-07-17T22:06:52Z It’s opulent, too — a fitting way to bring the curtain down on Balanchine’s birthday. Balanchine Turns 116 This Week. His Ballets Never Get Old. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The program ended with George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” which gleams like a perfectly cut jewel with sparkling touches of Russian folk dance and jazzy accents. Dance Review: City Ballet Dances 3 Works Set to Violin Concertos 2014-02-14T22:37:35Z Balanchine at times works often as much against Stravinsky as with him. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z Seeing Serenade and Giselle side by side, we're reminded of how deeply Balanchine quoted from the latter, and how deeply he was haunted by the past. Bolshoi: Serenade/Giselle 2010-07-27T20:30:00Z But it is in Act II that Balanchine demonstrates the ideal of Romantic love: two anonymous dancers at the wedding divertissement dance to Mendelssohn’s string symphony No. 9. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z For Stafford, it needs to focus not only on training dancers in the Balanchine aesthetic but also in improving the overall student experience and creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Thanks in part to the conducting of Andrews Sill, the greatest delights of these performances were the connections between Mozart and Balanchine. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z At one point during Thursday’s premiere, while explaining how Balanchine, a founder of City Ballet, developed a more efficient pirouette, Ms. Coates playfully addressed the audience as “class.” Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z And his lengthy exposure to the pure-dance works in the Balanchine and Robbins canon encouraged a physical freedom and dynamism that transcended his own traditions. Dance Review: Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party 2011-03-01T22:56:51Z “I mean, right now, I could probably dance all of ‘Agon,’” he said about Balanchine’s famously pared-down, modernist ballet, “that’s how obsessed I was.” At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z For thousands of people, “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker’” was their first “Nutcracker” and remains their local. Review: Pick a ‘Nutcracker,’ One From Balanchine, the Other Reimagined 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z No less a figure than George Balanchine was coaxed to choreograph - and he insisted that his credit should reflect that in the Broadway program, the first time "choreography by" would appear. Review: Ballet meets hoofing in fun 'On Your Toes' 2013-05-09T17:12:08Z Maybe it was something that connected him to his own childhood, which was far removed from the world of Balanchine and ballet. Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Her work deploys physical ideas and images from Petipa, Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Nijinsky and more, but shifts lightly among them. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z All, or nothing at all — it’s the Balanchine way. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As she often recalled, she felt she would not fit in with the company’s long-legged, fleet-footed female dancers, who were encouraged to “just dance,” as Balanchine reportedly wished. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z This season — particularly in George Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations” — some of the dancing has been more studious than free, as if it were taking place underwater. At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It was on a program that inspired Morton Baum, the businessman who was chairman of City Center’s finance committee in 1948, to offer Balanchine a home, leading to the creation of City Ballet. Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z There also will be a tribute of sorts to Valentino: The ballet will perform "Rubies," from George Balanchine's "Jewels," set to Igor Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. Valentino's new runway is the ballet stage 2012-09-19T17:30:18Z This was nothing like the fishnet-stockings version that George Balanchine created for the original musical, which ballet troupes still perform, with showgirls and gangsters. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Balanchine choreography can abound in hovering off-balance moments when the ballerina slows down time itself. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z Last year was the 50th anniversary of Balanchine’s “Jewels.” Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z For me, it wasn’t a Balanchine work so much as a Balanchine quality: boldness. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The digital season will begin with three weeklong explorations of major works by the company’s founding choreographer George Balanchine, “Prodigal Son,” “Theme and Variations” and “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” New York City Ballet Dancers to Step Back Onstage 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But the pool of candidates with a depth of Balanchine knowledge is small. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z Balanchine didn’t invent the notion of a directing ballet master — the teacher who made ballets and controlled policy. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z For the first years of my career, it was clear to me how to be a partner at City Ballet, the company built by Balanchine. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But the posthumous spread of Balanchine repertory has often threatened to squeeze his contemporaries out of the picture, even the illustrious Ashton. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Your season ended with the first ballet Balanchine choreographed in America, “Serenade.” After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z For some people, these works exemplify the classicism of postmodern dance; any dancegoer can spot moments when they echo choreography by George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Both tension and intention figure strongly in Whelan's description of dancing time-honored Balanchine ballets at Lincoln Center. Dancer Wendy Whelan leaves ballet, becomes a freelance modernist 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z VAIL, Colo. — When the choreographer George Balanchine was running New York City Ballet, there were two sides to being one of his male dancers. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z A different mystery pervaded her big solo in “Emeralds,” the first part of Balanchine‘s “Jewels.” Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z His first principal role here was in George Balanchine's "Prodigal Son," and Postlewaite said he brought that emotion to the role. Moving on: PNB bids bon voyage to principal Lucien Postlewaite 2012-06-06T21:12:03Z “Serenade” began the program of Balanchine dances; excerpts from his one-act “Swan Lake” and the third act of “Coppélia” followed; the finale was the last movement of “Western Symphony.” School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The School of American Ballet, founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, is 80 years old this year. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Noguchi worked with other choreographers besides Graham, including George Balanchine. The painful truth about those Noguchi stage designs 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The dancers were rendered sharply distinct within the space around them: a basic Balanchine feature, too seldom found today. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z Often, the dancers’ arms were interwoven into shapes that recalled the black-and-white pretzel ballets of George Balanchine, yet they always entangled themselves with grace. Bowen McCauley Dance celebrates 20 years with new and vintage pieces 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Farrell emphasizes purism when she teaches Balanchine, as her former partner Edward Villella, artistic director of Miami City Ballet, recalled after asking her to stage “Diamonds” for his company. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z Her final performances — in “Apollo” last Sunday afternoon and as a demi-soloist in “Theme and Variations” on Tuesday and Saturday — are in ballets by George Balanchine. Retiring From Ballet Theater, a Dancer Gets What She Needs 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In a 2010 New York Times dance review, the critic Alastair Macaulay observed that the dancer Jenifer Ringer looked in Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” as if she had eaten “one sugar plum too many.” Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing This is the dance that, in 1945, Balanchine — so devoted to theme-and-variations as a compositional method — cited as the inspiration for all his own choreography. Dance Review: A Wild Man-Child by Way of the Bolshoi Tears Up the Met Stage 2011-06-19T22:43:45Z Although it was Balanchine who let “Gounod” pass from repertory in the 1960s, it was missed. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Samuel Wilson and Ashley Murphy attempted “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” a challenging traditional showpiece that George Balanchine choreographed for his own company on this stage in 1960. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem at City Center 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z To those who wonder if Balanchine can be that great, Tuesday’s quadruple bill was a good corrective. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z “For people who might not be familiar with the great abstract works of Balanchine or the classics,” Wheeldon said, “they might see a poster and think, ‘Well maybe I’ll go and see that.’” It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z On Wednesday the final work was a story ballet: “Firebird,” a vintage gem from 1949 with Marc Chagall scenery and costumes; and choreography both by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Balanchine Turns 116 This Week. His Ballets Never Get Old. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The most distinguished programs — a triple bill of ballets by Mark Morris, Ashton and George Balanchine, and Alexei Ratmansky’s new “Shostakovich Trilogy” — received only four performances each. Critic’s Notebook: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2013-07-07T21:18:29Z The mathematical wit and musical timing here remind me less of the choreographers I’ve mentioned than of George Balanchine. Review: The Inspired Poetry of Gandini Juggling 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Alonso’s favorite part of the story occurred after Balanchine heard Youskevitch talking about how easy his variation was and decided to complicate matters. Alicia Alonso to Be Honored by Ballet Theater 2010-06-02T22:11:00Z It’s now marketed as “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker’ ” — yet at least two important parts of it aren’t by Balanchine. Is Beyonc? a Choreography Thief in ?Countdown?? 2011-11-21T17:25:51Z It’s no longer Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, it’s Balanchine’s “Serenade.” Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z He was referring to the premiere, the night before, of Balanchine’s “Seven Deadly Sins,” with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil’s libretto and score. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z The documentary “In Balanchine’s Classroom” pairs archival footage from Balanchine’s studio with present-day interviews with the dancers who attended. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z His later work with the choreographer George Balanchine was one of the most important collaborations in the history of the arts. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z There’s nothing wrong with borrowing ideas from other productions; Balanchine did, everyone does. Review: Pick a ‘Nutcracker,’ One From Balanchine, the Other Reimagined 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Balanchine described “Allegro” as “everything I knew about the classical ballet — in 13 minutes.” Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Fear not: the week holds a range of consolations, including Balanchine landmarks like “Symphony in Three Movements,” “The Four Temperaments” and “Mozartiana.” The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Conversely, Balanchine expressed no confidence that they would, at least on any scale of consequence. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z It is now almost 35 years since Balanchine died. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Even When There’s a Him Around, Balanchine Is Still About Her The biographies of George Balanchine tell us of his several wives, of his other loves, and of his devotion to the female dancer. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in Balanchine at Lincoln Center 2012-09-23T21:36:02Z But Martins’s dancers, who are schooled in George Balanchine’s athletic, streamlined style, have little experience with acting and almost none with mime — hence, Martins’ hands-on drama coaching. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Upon their return, Balanchine went to work on a ballet on Scottish themes, which would become “Scotch Symphony.” When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “So our first week was all Balanchine because I wanted to say, this choreographer is not only arguably the greatest choreographer in history, but our choreographer.” New York City Ballet Savors the City of Light 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s therefore tempting to adopt a Saint Balanchine approach to ballet history: tempting but unwise. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “As a girl from Kentucky,” Ms. Whelan said, “this book literally opened the door to my fascination with New York City, ballet and Balanchine.” ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z Fresh Adventures With Balanchine, and Jazzy Footwork With Rodgers The four ballets that entered repertory on Wednesday night didn’t add up as a rich program. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z She has written about how several sections of “Preludes and Fugues” include tributes to choreographers who influenced her early on: Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z And this repertory — the season opened with Balanchine triple bills on Tuesday and Wednesday — was scheduled by him back in 2017. Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z One of Balanchine’s habitual choreographic devices was the knot — tying a line of dancers through loops. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z And the reliable delights of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” return Nov. 26-Jan. All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z This kind of basic off-balance movement is one of the hallmarks of Balanchine ballet. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z Still Balanchine’s Students The three ballets performed by the School of American Ballet last weekend in its annual Workshop presentation were a heady infusion of beauty, consisting of pure dancing — nothing but dancing to music. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z “There is nobody better to oversee the Balanchine choreography than a man who’s worked hand in hand with Balanchine and for 35 years has preserved that legacy.” Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Balanchine, always revising, must have approved them all. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z A few seconds after Christopher Grant began circling his willowy partner, Clara Miller, 18 — the lead saloon girl in George Balanchine’s “Western Symphony” — he was cut off by a round of aggressive clapping. Lessons of Old Are Still in the Air at the School of American Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Speaking of "Rubies," that Balanchine classic - the middle section of his famous "Jewels" - was the only ballet performed Thursday that Valentino didn't design for. Ballet meets Valentino at glittery NYCB gala 2012-09-21T20:13:12Z Where the company departs from Balanchine tenets, however, is in its inherent theatricality. A Taste of Russian Dance in London 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, the two greatest masters of ballet classicism in the 20th century, both acknowledged the vastness of their debt to him. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z That season was attended by the young Lincoln Kirstein, who called it a dance landmark, and who soon persuaded Balanchine to come to America, where the pair eventually founded New York City Ballet. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z New York City Ballet’s rehearsal studios are the natural place for her, where she can groom dancers in the roles she knew best as the company’s prima ballerina and Balanchine’s muse. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In the 1970s Balanchine removed the caller but added a slow male solo that is the ballet’s most modern and wonderfully disconcerting feature. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z To most Europeans, this behavior, which occurs across the Balanchine repertory, looks utterly American. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z Twyla Tharp’s “Deuce Coupe” shows off his jazzy daring, and he made a remarkable debut in the daunting title role of Balanchine’s “Apollo.” At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In 2004, when we celebrated Balanchine’s 100th anniversary, I wanted to revive it but concluded that there weren’t enough people who remembered the work.” Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Since the winter season, she has made debuts in a wide range of Balanchine ballets — “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” “Swan Lake,” “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” and the lead female in “Agon.” What Is the Power of Unity Phelan’s Dancing? ‘I’m Clay.’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Wednesday pairs Balanchine’s elegant “Liebeslieder Walzer” with Robbins’s sleek “Glass Pieces”; Thursday combines Martins’s “Barber Violin Concerto” and Balanchine’s “Who Cares?” with Robbins’s sailor salute, “Fancy Free.” Dance Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Few of the principal dancers who knew Balanchine most closely continue on as coaches or teachers under Martins. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But the young god reveals himself in eagle imagery above all; and with “Apollo” Balanchine found his own commanding, eagle-eyed view of his art. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z This fall, though, I started taking him to City Ballet performances; he became invested both in the dancers and in the choreography of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z They were followed by an inadequate performance in major Balanchine — the stand-alone “Theme and Variations,” choreographed 23 years before the rest. Dance Review: City Ballet Classics, Including ?Agon? at Koch Theater 2012-02-19T22:21:20Z More than 20 Balanchine ballets remain in the Pennsylvania Ballet’s repertoire, including “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which the company will perform at the Kennedy Center this weekend. Boston, Pennsylvania ballets have many similarities at 50 For Balanchine, the whole ballet is conducted as if Zeus were watching Apollo graduate to godhood. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z My dance will be sandwiched between two Balanchine ballets on the program and I’m trying hard not to think about this. A Choreographer in Quarantine (the Kind With a Guard in the Hall) 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z And what glorious children Balanchine has given us here. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z Entertainment is a word that Balanchine used to characterize the function of ballet. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z That is something of a break from the company’s history — Balanchine, after all, was one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century. Who Should Run City Ballet? A Job Posting, Explained 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z How many listeners would enjoy Stravinsky’s tricky, acerbic “Agon” were it not for George Balanchine’s penetrating ballet to the score? Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Musicals, oddly enough, were Peck’s portal to Balanchine. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ In the early 1930s, Lincoln Kirstein enticed George Balanchine to New York, where they founded what became City Ballet. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The Sunday program — all Balanchine — promises to be a spectacular finish, with “Concerto Barocco,” “Agon” and “The Four Temperaments.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z From Passion To Transcendence Along with George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham classics this season, dance audiences will see new choreographic works as well as international artists. The New Season 2012-09-07T21:04:55Z At the Vail Dance Festival this summer, dancing Balanchine’s “Tarantella” pas de deux and a Matthew Neenan world premiere, he blew his audience away with speed and brilliance, charm and nonchalance. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z There are a few interesting exceptions, where Balanchine hedged it a bit and where you can’t take the tempo that the score requires. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Most of these “Nutcrackers,” Balanchine’s included, place great faith in innocence as something idyllic and important. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z The Balanchine dictate “Don’t think, dear, just do,” for example, “seems a lot less valid to us,” he said. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z “Rubies,” to Stravinsky’s jazz-inflected Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, shows the astringent modernism that Balanchine developed in America. Dance Review: The Bolshoi Performs Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ in London 2013-08-14T21:10:21Z He said: “Balanchine used to tell me: ‘I don’t trust my ears. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z The Mariinsky said she was also the first American to receive a degree from the Vaganova, a storied school that produced George Balanchine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev and Anna Pavlova, among other prominent dancers. ArtsBeat: Another American Dancer Joins a Russian Ballet Company 2012-01-19T22:00:57Z Above all, in these Balanchine ballets, it’s that brilliant meeting of music and dance that galvanizes. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Before and during the Balanchine era, the ballerina was queen bee of ballet’s realm. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z New York City Ballet had planned to celebrate the birthday of George Balanchine as usual, with performances and demonstrations of his works. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Balanchine continued working with the company and Tallchief was cast in a number of revivals including Le Baiser de la Fée, in which she danced the role of the Fairy. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z This program, to be hosted by the principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht, will be an exploration of choreography, with company members performing excerpts from pieces by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Alexei Ratmansky. Spare Times for Children for May 9-15 2014-05-08T21:59:09Z Trying to match Bach and Balanchine must be as wearying as trying to match nature. Review: In ‘Biophony,’ Ballet Matches Exotic Sound 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Better casting came on Saturday evening when Janie Taylor made her debut in the central role of Balanchine’s “Symphony in Three Movements.” Dance Review: At City Ballet, a New Work Looks to Ellington for ?That Swing? 2011-01-30T23:49:35Z The suggestion came from Balanchine himself, who just before his death thought the pair should work together on Brahms’s “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.” 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Woetzel was for many years a star dancer with New York City Ballet, the company George Balanchine founded and that still performs far more Balanchine ballets than any other troupe. Review: From Balanchine to Jookin, a Sampler of Summer Souvenirs 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s not for me to advocate any heir to Balanchine or Mr. Martins; I strongly dislike the notion of critic as kingmaker or power broker. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z She released in them all a freedom of spirit, a wealth of musical nuance and a range of physical inflection that kept her enterprise on the top level of achievement amid the world’s Balanchine diaspora. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Later, Lenya wasn’t available; nor was Barbra Streisand, whom Ms. Kent said Balanchine considered for her part. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z The other half of the gala program will consist of George Balanchine’s “Union Jack,” a sprawling work that Mr. Martins said would be a tribute to City Ballet’s latest Liverpudlian contributor. ArtsBeat: Paul McCartney Collaborates With City Ballet 2011-02-23T19:28:55Z As he talked about the coming program, Mr. d’Amboise narrated bits of his career, which has included decades at City Ballet, where Balanchine created dozens of works for him. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z And just as she carved the air with her impossibly long arms and delicate hands, Kowroski seemed to be following Balanchine’s lead: Taking in the details, she was noticing everything. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z City Ballet’s Balanchine style, with its many acts of stepping off balance, has long been the most naturally brave in world ballet. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Suzanne Farrell, the sublime ballerina and creator of many lead roles for the choreographer George Balanchine, was back in the studio where he made many of his masterworks for New York City Ballet. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z For a short time she worked as a repetiteur, one of the George Balanchine Trust’s approved rehearsal directors who stage that choreographer’s ballets around the world. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z The difference between the two sections, Balanchine famously remarked, is between real people and their souls. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Eastern, the principal dancer Adrian Danchig-Waring offers a more interactive way into “The Four Temperaments,” one of Balanchine’s signature, stripped-down “leotard ballets,” set to Paul Hindemith’s intoxicating score. Ailey, Balanchine and a Lesson in Mourning 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Though it would be good to speak more of the season’s amazing Balanchine adventures, I must dwell more on its grimmer sides: Some of the newer works are programmed to return. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z Learning the Balanchine and Robbins repertory was exhilarating but hard. Charles Askegard Departs City Ballet to Form Ballet Next 2011-10-02T04:00:05Z On Feb. 5, Mr. Villella and Mr. Mitchell will join Mr. d’Amboise at the National Dance Institute for “Balanchine’s Guys,” in which they will share stories about what it was like to dance for him. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But Ms. Taylor-Corbett said that although she had done extensive research, notably at the Weill Foundation in New York, she consciously tried not to imitate the Balanchine version. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Kirstein worked to devise ballets that would be American and labored for many months with Balanchine on an adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Pavlova’s Shoes, Nijinsky’s Diary, and Other Dance Treasures From the Public Library 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Here is the three-dimensional thrill of Balanchine style, every new angle rhythmically changing the whole air far beyond. Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z “Symphonic Variations” was as much of a landmark for English ballet as “Serenade” — the first ballet Balanchine made in this country — was for American ballet. Review | Washington Ballet’s ‘Mixed Masters’ program marks growth of company 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The program ends with a doozy, Balanchine’s “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.” Dance Review: New York City Ballet in an All-Rodgers Program 2013-05-03T23:15:25Z The film bogs down a bit when it gets to a turf war involving the Juilliard program, George Balanchine, Lincoln Kirstein and the construction of Lincoln Center. ‘Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter,’ Behind the Scenes With Martha Hill 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He has to distribute the roles fairly while giving opportunities to those below, and he can’t afford to wield the ruthless favoritism of a Balanchine. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z The 1928 ballet “Apollo,” about the Greek god and his muses, is a neoclassical gem that put George Balanchine on the map. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The deep, spacious fourth positions they hold at the end of the Dawn solo are especially striking: another sign of the spreading openness of the Balanchine idiom. ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ to Air ‘Curtain Up’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z She took ballet lovers into the studio with Mr. Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky as they worked with the dancers on “Agon.” Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Anything that gets in the way of that encounter is tantamount to slashing the Mona Lisa or throwing red paint on the stage during a Balanchine performance. Why allowing texting in movie theaters might have been a brilliant idea 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Balanchine would go on to choreograph around 40 works to Stravinsky’s music, including the masterworks “Apollo” “Agon,” “Symphony in Three Movements,” “Violin Concerto” and “Duo Concertant.” To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z During one early rehearsal, Jones spoke of George Balanchine and Fred Astaire while Parker, her frame narrow and taut, stretched at a barre near an upright piano. How a new dance gets made: Behind the scenes at American Contemporary Ballet 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Since Balanchine’s influence on national and international ballet in America has only grown since his death, this was important. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z There were other bright moments in the program, which included a crisp, ebullient account of Balanchine’s “Allegro Brillante.” Review | This ballerina played the role of a stripper, and she owned it 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z But it’s always a barometer of how well Balanchine style is being honored, often giving glimpses of the sublime. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z As it was for Balanchine as a child in St. Petersburg, Russia. Dance Review: ?George Balanchine?s The Nutcracker? at Lincoln Center 2011-11-27T22:38:29Z “If you notice, all Fred Astaire movies are full figure, and Balanchine ballets are like that,” he said in an interview in The New York Times in 2011. Merrill Brockway, Producer of TV’s ‘Dance in America,’ Dies at 90 2013-05-09T22:40:03Z Certainly in Balanchine you see tradition and innovation marvelously wed. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z To love Balanchine is to love this film; to love this film is to love ballet, specifically Balanchine’s kind and his kind of dancer: daring, fast, strong, free, at one with the music. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z This kind of detail, often lost now in performances at City Ballet, is one reason it’s exciting to watch the School’s stagings of Balanchine. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z Nicole Cornell, the director of the George Balanchine Trust, which holds the rights to the choreographer’s work, said in an email that it had “paused all future licensing conversations” with Russian companies. War Brings New Iron Curtain Down on Russia’s Storied Ballet Stages 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This book is a sensitive portrait of George Balanchine, the Russian-born choreographer whose profound influence on ballet is still felt today. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The performance was as if we were in Balanchine’s rehearsal room; I’d love to hear what members of the ballet’s early casts have to say about it. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z City Ballet has been performing “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” in roughly the same way using roughly the same costumes for more than 60 years. Not Off the Rack: This Year’s Bespoke ‘Nutcracker’ at City Ballet 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z While celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall, New York City Ballet is performing 18 ballets by its founding choreographer, George Balanchine. The Long Life and Long Reach of George Balanchine’s Butterflies 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z In this, he follows squarely in the footsteps of George Balanchine, the co-founder of City Ballet, whose saying, “see the music, hear the dance” is still an in-house mantra. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Throughout last Saturday’s matinee, under the conductor Clotilde Otranto, it played a record number of wrong notes, an offense not just to Tchaikovsky but also to Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z And in the Balanchine world there is a particular problem nicknamed Versionitis: Balanchine made so many changes to his ballets that his alumni squabble over which is best. Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z If he had to describe Balanchine in just a few words, Mr. d’Amboise said, he would single out “exquisite manners”: “Balanchine got what he wanted by good manners and diplomacy.” Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Also scheduled: Bournonville’s Pas de Six and Tarantella from the ballet “Napoli” and the return of Balanchine’s brilliant and still-provocative “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” Baryshnikov, Diavolo, BodyTraffic and more: L.A.'s dance scene gears up for a breakout season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z New York City Ballet is returning online with a series of weekly spotlights on important works by its founding choreographer, George Balanchine. Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “I put him on the level of Balanchine,” she said. Merrill Ashley Is in Focus at the Dance on Camera Festival 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z That lightness became a characteristic element of “Scotch Symphony,” and of the Balanchine style. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until 1973 that a Balanchine ballet was included in the workshop. School of American Ballet’s Gutsy Kids: ‘They Just Have to Dance’ 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Ballet is lucky that it has two superlative versions of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Balanchine’s from 1962 and Ashton’s from 1964, both using music by Mendelssohn. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s Ashton Program at the Met 2010-06-09T22:16:00Z The changing sequence of Balanchine’s corps-and-principals constructions does the heart good, as does the ancient-and-modern combination of steps and the judicious mixture of grace, formality, absurdity and stunning exuberance. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Woetzel was clever, informative but overly loquacious; Mr. Martins was judicious, sage, wry, supportive of his dancers and a source of Balanchine lore. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z Last week she did the same in George Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” where, standing in the back row — the usual tall-girl spot — she played one of 26 courtiers. Review: City Ballet Debuts in Season Finale 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z It gave me some comfort to know about the history of the company, that Balanchine did the same thing with the black-and-white ballets. Justin Peck Choreographing for New York City Ballet 2012-07-27T21:41:56Z The programs, Ms. Shuler said, will focus on works by George Balanchine works that were made for and performed on the City Center stage. City Center’s 75th Anniversary: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Balanchine and Broadway 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z It was Paul Taylor’s last rehearsal with George Balanchine, and he was perplexed. Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Balanchine does this throughout “Jewels” by many means. New York City Ballet Casts a Singular Luster in ‘Jewels’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z When Balanchine arrived in America in 1933, he knew three phrases: “OK kid,” “scram” and “one swell guy.” A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z There are still several points of Balanchine style that today’s City Ballet underdoes. Debuts at New York City Ballet 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Balanchine, City Ballet’s founding ballet master, had worked in Copenhagen in the early 1930s. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In the middle, working even harder, is Balanchine. Balanchine Teaching 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Who in the audience really sees the eagle, snake, moon crossing the sky, emeralds, rubies and unicorns that are said by Balanchine connoisseurs to be present in his ballets? Review: ‘The Two Pigeons,’ Frederick Ashton’s Look at Love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z These are both, in various senses, Romantic ballets, so it’s worth remembering the audacious remark made by Balanchine when he returned to his native Russia in 1962, with New York City Ballet. Mariinsky Ballet Concludes Brooklyn Run With Chopin 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet there’s been a vast posthumous Balanchine surge. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “He was adamant,” he continued, doing an excellent Balanchine impression: “‘I want American boy!’ When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Kistler, the last ballerina trained and hired by Mr. Balanchine, will finish her 30-year career at New York City Ballet in a farewell program at Lincoln Center on Sunday. Arts & Leisure Preview: Darci Kistler, Scissor Sisters, 'Leave It to Beaver' and more 2010-06-25T19:23:00Z He’s applied himself with extreme distinction to the highest flights of classicism choreographed by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton. David Hallberg’s Dancing Develops Via Russia 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z If the kids in New York City Ballet’s production of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” look more like teenagers this season, it’s because in many cases they are. This Year’s ‘Nutcracker’ Kids: Taller, Older and Savoring It All 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The vocabulary is connected to those of both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, the main choreographers for these City Ballet dancers, but with many new inflections, alternating between informal manners and academic rigor. Critic’s Notebook: Troy Schumacher and BalletCollective Open Eyes 2013-08-19T21:42:28Z There’s always a Cunningham, a Balanchine, a Fosse. Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z For the opening moment, J R, who watched performances and studied photographs, became obsessed with a movement from George Balanchine’s “The Four Temperaments.” From the Bleak Streets to the Ballet Stage 2014-04-28T21:45:28Z The women are Balanchine women: mercurial, elusive, conflicted in their independence. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The company’s production of Balanchine’s 1954 classic already pops with an abundance of color and heat. In Miami, Sugarplum Dreams Under the Palm Trees 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Robbins, often inspired by Balanchine, sometimes remarked that he felt like a beginner beside Balanchine’s prodigious example. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z At the same time, he hasn’t exhausted the possibilities of classical vocabulary; like Balanchine, he instills steps with a crisp and sweeping musicality. At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky Can Let His Imagination Run Wild 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Or, as the great choreographer George Balanchine said, “ballet is woman.” He Wants to Be a Ballerina. He Has Taken the First Steps. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z There are Balanchine ballets in which one ballerina reigns alone in glory, but here he fields five, often in close conjunction. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z Her personal style of inflected dancing — marked by accents, technical brio and hints of occasional drama — seemed antithetical to the straightforward pure-movement style that Balanchine promoted in City Ballet as choreographer and artistic director. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Figgins began her career at Dance Theater of Harlem, where she performed lead roles in George Balanchine’s “Four Temperaments” and “Agon,” among other ballets. Ballet Tech Names a New Artistic Director 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z The other half of the gala program will consist of George Balanchine’s “Union Jack,” which Mr. Martins said would be a tribute to City Ballet’s new Liverpudlian contributor. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z This short season also features works by Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Twyla Tharp. The best dance in 2011 2011-01-03T11:42:33Z That dozens of one-act Balanchine ballets, like “Divertimento No. 15” and “Symphony in Three Movements,” are now regularly danced from Phoenix to Miami, from Vienna to Vancouver, is a victory of superlative modernism. Hail, Dance, and Farewell to the Critic’s Life 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z “Whereas all day in the school it was ‘Balanchine wanted this’ and ‘Balanchine wanted that.’ Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z Ms. Olsen recalled that George Balanchine, the artistic director of New York City Ballet, begrudgingly bestowed the epithet Black Magic on Ms. Black when some of his dancers defected to her classes. Maggie Black, Esteemed Ballet and Modern Dance Teacher, Dies at 85 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z One of his favorite memories of dancing with her is when she was thrown onstage in Balanchine’s “Firebird” at the last minute in 2007. A City Ballet Star Bids Farewell to the ‘Crazy Ballerina Life’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z And, most valuable of all, the freedom of her musicality remained, lighting up the Balanchine repertory. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z I hope one day to see them share a program with George Balanchine’s “Agon”; you can hardly miss the way all three embody the same climate. Review: City Ballet’s Spring Season Includes ‘N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z She, advancing on point, leads him into the wings; and he’s pulled backward by her — a classic image of the Balanchine man going where the ballerina leads without even seeing his way. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The program concluded with an homage to what may be the greatest artistic collaboration of 20th-century America: Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine. ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Her reputation as a source of Balanchine wisdom never faded; while the roles she originated gained stature as pinnacles of ballet repertory, the reputation of her insights as a teacher and coach kept rising. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z When alive, Balanchine was controversial, not least in the demands he placed on his female dancers. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z An injury kept her from performing in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” A City Ballet Star Bids Farewell to the ‘Crazy Ballerina Life’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Balanchine’s “Divertimento No. 15” and, especially, the “Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux,” fared better. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Roberts, the resident choreographer at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater — where he recently retired as a dancer — has spoken about Balanchine being an influence. Review: City Ballet Gets a Modern Dance Fix 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Both pieces were reminders of how Balanchine took ballet away from the conventions incarnated by “The Magic Flute.” Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z The choreographer George Balanchine once said, “There are no mothers-in-law in ballet,” implying that stage action must explain itself. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Balanchine won her, and they remained married for 16 years. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z Balanchine likened his ballets to butterflies: “They live for a season.” The Long Life and Long Reach of George Balanchine’s Butterflies 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z In so many ways, he was my Balanchine.” Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z And his sense of light, space and metamorphosis transformed Balanchine’s work. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Their inaugural evening doesn’t give away a great deal either, with a program that is a safe path between tried and trusted — pieces by Petipa and Balanchine — and new work from mostly established names. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z Here again were Balanchine choreographic devices — four men partnering one woman in an extreme version of supported adagio, for example — but tweaked, so that the men dance among themselves when not partnering her. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Eight companies from around the world will take part in “Balanchine,” including the Paris Opera Ballet, the Mariinsky from Russia and, it goes without saying, New York City Ballet, the original house of Balanchine. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “In fact, I found it inspiring. It harks back to my youth, when I first learned of Balanchine. I loved taking it all in and adding my own ideas.” Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Kistler has maintained for years that dancing Balanchine ballets makes one a Balanchine dancer. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z My wife was telling me something she read about Balanchine. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z While “Variations” has reminders of Balanchine’s “Prodigal Son” and Jerome Robbins’s “The Cage,” the guiding force of Ms. Mearns, and her direct, unfettered dancing, allows it to exist inside its own haunted house world. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Her new position reminds her of a moment when she was dancing in Balanchine’s “Serenade.” School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Or, rather, since the company uses the version of George Balanchine’s “Apollo” that skips the birth scene, the season began with the young god figuring out what he can do. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z "Balanchine's choreography is so wonderful, for children as well as adults." Popcorn and snowflakes: 'Nutcracker' at the movies 2011-12-09T22:16:13Z Balanchine understood that, and he respected the tempos he grew up with; he was a very fine musician — and that made the difference. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Along with more Balanchine ballets, he is also eager to introduce works by Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. Adventure Beyond the South Pole 2011-08-21T04:00:04Z Gary Sheldon conducted; the score, Balanchine’s own collage of different Mendelssohn items, sounded marvelously iridescent, although the use of an assisted acoustic gave too much prominence to the women’s voices. Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The level was not invariably high, but often enough you would hear long-term Balanchine devotees exclaiming, “This is how it was.” After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z They raise the 45-foot-high Christmas tree for “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” Hey, Stars, Be Nice to the Stagehands. You Might Need a Loan. 2013-12-28T02:11:03Z George Balanchine, the company’s founder-choreographer, staged the premiere of “Deadly Sins” in 1933 in Europe, only months before sailing for America. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z The 13 Balanchine ballets in repertory this winter season were always an adventure ground. City Ballet’s Season of Renewal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Her repertoire there included the major classical ballets and duets, as well as works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor, William Dollar and Ms. de Mille. Lupe Serrano, Ballerina of Power and Fire, Is Dead at 92 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z When it comes to moments that produce waves of emotion in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” there are some obvious contenders: when the Christmas tree grows, the Nutcracker’s transformation into the Little Prince, the onstage blizzard. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The choreographer George Balanchine was particularly fond of the theme-and-variations format, as practiced by Mozart, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Hindemith and others. From Movement in Ancient Art to Radical Choreographers 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The two other ballets on Tuesday’s program suffered by comparison with Balanchine. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z The larger issue today is the contrast between the Waterbury lawsuit’s accusations of dismaying manners and language offstage and the beauty of the stage behavior shown in Balanchine’s ballets. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Music, the ingredient overlooked by the gala presenters, was certainly the invariable underpinning of Balanchine’s diverse brand of ballet, but who’d have known that on Tuesday? Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Derek Lam quoted the ballet maestro George Balanchine: “There are no new steps, only new combinations.” Special Report: Fashion: Streamlining -- With a Whiff of Nostalgia 2011-02-14T17:30:48Z In 2004, she tore a tendon in her left foot during a performance of Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” and was sidelined her for nearly a year and a half. Farewell Is in View for Jennie Somogyi, a City Ballet Lifer 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z He noted influences from the past in Balanchine’s work and from Balanchine in his own work. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Lamb, who is American, dances Balanchine as if it's her birthright and flies through the first movement with such spritzy poise that she barely seems to need a partner. Chroma/Tryst/Symphony in C; RainForest/The Art of Touch/A Linha Curva 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z As a ballet master he directs the company’s teaching, the choice of each season’s repertory from its unmatched treasury of ballets by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and the way those ballets are rehearsed and cast. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z Her springtime beauty is perfect for this piece; it’s impossible not to wish the company would give her successive performances of at least one central Balanchine non-”Nutcracker” ballerina role to develop her authority. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z Balanchine trained his dancers, not invariably but as a rule, to arrive in a position a fraction ahead of the beat. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z As the lone female soloist of “Rubies” — its dangerously commanding mistress of ceremonies — the much younger Emily Kikta was just as terrific an example of Balanchine’s view of girl power. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The rococo romanticism of “Emeralds,” the simultaneous music-hall colloquialism and astringent modernity of “Rubies” and the grand imperial manner of “Diamonds” all show us the range of styles that Balanchine commanded. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z I don’t think he knows who Balanchine is — it’s all dancing. Bill T. Jones Is Making Room in Dance for More Than Dance 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z There she was to dance in virtually all Balanchine's ballets. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z In his choreography, Balanchine made a space for women in particular — and for each woman — to be free. Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z At City Ballet, leading parts were his for the taking, notably in “Apollo,” which George Balanchine revived for him in 1957. Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z That dismissal, following pointed comments she made in the New Yorker about her Balanchine know-how, fits a pattern. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z It performed 65 ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Maurice Béjart, and played a major role in preserving the Balanchine tradition. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Plans to Close After 2017-18 Season 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Her professional experience, she knows, is rare, but because she was so young when Balanchine died, and because she is as much a part of Mr. Martins’s era as Balanchine’s, she also has perspective. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z If he has one regret, Mr. De Luz said, it’s that he was never given the chance to perform one of Balanchine’s spare, modernist “black-and-white” works like “Agon” and “The Four Temperaments.” Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet you no sooner spot these similarities than, again, you see how Balanchine does something entirely different with this horizontal line each time. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z Dena Abergel, City Ballet’s children’s repertory director, sees “The Nutcracker,” which opens Friday at Lincoln Center, as Balanchine’s training ground: It teaches children how to become performers. The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Lourdes Lopez, now the artistic director of Miami City Ballet, danced the lead in the first regiment of Balanchine’s “Stars and Stripes” after learning it in six days. Lessons of Old Are Still in the Air at the School of American Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z This programme also takes in Twyla Tharp's Known By Heart pas de deux plus Balanchine's Duo Concertant, set to music by Stravinsky. This week's new dance 2011-01-29T00:06:32Z Tanner had begun to work on an assigned score when Balanchine changed his mind, telling him to use instead “Octuor,”’ a 1923 score for woodwind and brass instruments. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z With “Allegro” Balanchine gives us high classicism at its brightest and most outgoing. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z More to the point, his direction of City Ballet has been called into question many times since Balanchine’s death. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z Beginning Tuesday, get lost in the enchanted forest of Balanchine’s delightful “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Dance Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s balletic, as reverent as the opening prayer in George Balanchine’s “Mozartiana” and a choreographic feat built on a grace and tension born from control. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Last year, Ms. Miller, the lead in “Western,” performed the principal part in Balanchine’s “Walpurgisnacht Ballet.” Lessons of Old Are Still in the Air at the School of American Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In the last four years the company, from the corps upward, has begun dancing with more of the off-balance stretch that should characterize so much of Balanchine’s classicism. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z As the piano begins, the women start to dance, and a man joins them, much as in George Balanchine’s “Apollo” when the young god sports with his muses. Ephrat Asherie, Frederick Ashton and a Solemn Memorial 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z As Nancy Goldner writes in her insightful book “More Balanchine Variations,” Balanchine felt that Mozart transcended emotion, and thus was too ineffable for dance. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The great choreographer George Balanchine created it for the New York City Ballet as a tribute to one of his teachers, the pioneering dance maker Marius Petipa. Dance Listings for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:13:15Z The choreography, by Karole Armitage, could only have a limited effect in conditions so cramped, but individual phrases, very much along Balanchine lines, beamed out powerfully. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z There’s one of the signs of the master dramatist: Balanchine can make you laugh, then wipe the smile off your face, and leave you in a bewildering mix of emotions. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Thursday was the 111th birthday of George Balanchine, the most revelatory, influential and protean ballet master in history. City Ballet Revives Three Pieces in Repertory 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Last year, I found that this moment was actually choreographed by Balanchine. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Though the Balanchine worldview made women empowered and inspiring, it did not include women’s equality in the workplace or same-sex relationships. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The aesthetic calls for a sensual inwardness without added sauce, opening up a line of beauty already present in the Balanchine aesthetic of City Ballet. Review: Ballet and Modern Dance Meet, and Ultimately Embrace 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z "Apollo," crafted in 1928 by a then-24-year-old choreographer, is a brief work of rare beauty; a delicate calling card for what the next half-century of Balanchine would bring. Dance review: PNB's 'Apollo & Carmina' 2012-04-16T20:05:08Z That house — the New York State Theater, now called the David H. Koch Theater — was created to Balanchine’s specifications. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The test case on Friday was the opener, George Balanchine’s “Agon.” Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Return Has Warm Reception 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z I’ve seen more than 60 of his ballets in the last 10 years; Balanchine Without Balanchine is a growth industry. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The fall season continues with a glorious bevy of George Balanchine ballets, including “Jewels” and a program bookended by “Concerto Barocco” and “Symphony in C.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The Saturday and Sunday matinees highlight collaborations between Balanchine and Stravinsky, while the performances on Saturday evening and Wednesday juxtapose Balanchine with Peck in two slightly different mixes. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Novak thinks that Taylor was far more influenced by Balanchine than he let on, “in terms of musicality, in terms of ensemble work, in terms of rebelling against convention,” he said. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Most Balanchine ballets are high poetry; but the creation of poetic art is the very subject matter of “Apollo.” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Farrell is renowned for her deep knowledge of the Balanchine canon and for her ability to convey the nuances of its mastery. Suzanne Farrell Ballet to disband in 2017 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z And, just last month, the Balanchine Trust, which owns the rights to Balanchine’s work, notified other ballet companies that the changes were an approved option, though not required. Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s being staged by a number of Balanchine dancers, each of whom accentuates it differently, and each company brings its own native style to his work. Dance Review: Bolshoi’s Balanchine, From Stage to Screen 2014-01-20T22:28:28Z I note, however, that the Eglevsky program says that “À la Françaix” and “Tarantella” are “Courtesy of the Balanchine Trust.” Dance Review: Eglevsky Ballet?s Rare ?? la Fran?aix? by Balanchine 2010-08-22T22:30:00Z “Being able to offer Herman Cornejo the opportunity to dance Balanchine’s Apollo alongside Tiler Peck is an honor.” Vail International Dance Festival Announces New Program 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Miami City Ballet — 30 years old and always one of America’s foremost exponents of the ballets of the Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine — opens at the David H. Koch Theater this week. Review: Sarasota Ballet Blends Oddity and Englishness in a Double Bill 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z There are many Balanchine pas de deux in which the man does just what Mitchell demonstrated: offer a hand, reach inquiringly — enact specific manners or a conversation of niceties and politeness. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z This is the Balanchine style; the school is still its wellspring. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The Balanchine is a glittering display of virtuosity and musicality, and Teuscher, aside from a tiny wobble out of a turn, was majestic: clean, clear and expansive, distinct in her upper body. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z We’re all speaking the same language, which is the Balanchine aesthetic.” School of American Ballet Enlists City Ballet Members 2012-09-30T04:00:05Z Do you wish you were cast in more Balanchine ballets? | Lauren Lovette: Lauren Lovette Dances in New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2013-12-20T20:36:09Z Hollywood beckoned — he appeared in films like “Carousel” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” — but he always remained loyal to City Ballet and to Balanchine. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Benjamin Millepied’s outrageously costumed “Neverwhere,” with its plastic tutus and knee-high footwear, returns to the repertory on Tuesday and Wednesday, alongside time-honored gems by Robbins and Balanchine. Dance Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z This was one of the Balanchine lessons he learned best. Review: ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ a Movielike Ballet in Need of Better Direction 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Many serious balletgoers value the experience of watching dance from above, particularly City Ballet’s treasured Balanchine works, which are rich in patterns and dancer geometry. City Ballet Raises Ticket Cost and Ire 2011-06-22T22:45:24Z When New York City Ballet was invited to become a resident company, in 1948, Balanchine got to work, developing his dynamic, streamlined American style. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “The Minotaur” was meant to be choreographed by George Balanchine, for the company that would become New York City Ballet. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z I saw one performance with four friends whose experience of the company began long before mine; the conversation was about the troupe’s improvements and the inexhaustible richness of the Balanchine choreography. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z Woetzel attempted to preface their performance by showing a garbled black-and-white clip of Balanchine and Stravinsky discussing time signatures, but technical difficulties prompted him to ask if there was “a physicist in the house.” ‘DEMO’ at Kennedy Center celebrates artist collaboration 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z If she found something with words like “‘rehearsal’” and “‘Balanchine works with dancer,’” she made a note of it. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The musical phrasing of the “Davidsbündlertänze” choreography is extraordinary by Balanchine standards. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z When, standing in profile, he swings an arm in circles, he even evokes Balanchine’s music-god Apollo, though Apollo’s arm swings in the opposite direction. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z After he finished the variation, Mr. Balanchine said, ‘Do you like it?’ and Igor said, ‘No. I’m dead.’ Alicia Alonso to Be Honored by Ballet Theater 2010-06-02T22:11:00Z But when Balanchine made dances for men, the picture changed. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z She describes her process of resurrecting Balanchine’s rarer works in much the same way she says Balanchine thought of creating his own ballets after greats like Petipa: “filling in the blanks.” Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z As the Poet in “La Sonnambula” and Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” both George Balanchine ballets, his seriousness, his investment as a dramatic dancer brought a new urgency to the characters. The Wild Life and Times of a Soon-to-Be Former City Ballet Dancer 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z City Ballet uses taped music only in those cases where choreographers approved it; and Balanchine’s only use of recorded music seems to have been “Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir.” Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z Balanchine, who adored America, loved her Osage heritage, she wrote in her 1997 autobiography. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “Serenade” is famous as the first ballet Balanchine made in America; it’s often hailed as the first in which Balanchine evoked the huge sweep of American space. A Lesson for New York City Ballet: The Past Is Always Present 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z This revered academy, affiliated with New York City Ballet, raises the curtain on its talented students in three works by George Balanchine: “Concerto Barocco,” the Garland Dance from “The Sleeping Beauty” and “Bourrée Fantasque.” 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z She achieved a more unequivocal success than Fonteyn in that part and later graduated to the lead, one of the most arduous but exhilarating in the Balanchine repertory. Beryl Grey, Acclaimed British Ballerina, Is Dead at 95 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z I stood on the stage and heard Tchaikovsky’s surging strings and then felt my blue chiffon skirt sweeping my feet as my body began to dance Balanchine’s impeccable choreography. Readers Recall Their First Creative Crush 2013-09-01T21:08:08Z Ms. Kent, who never had an understudy for the role, had just had a baby when Balanchine wanted to bring the piece back in the ’60s. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z It’s easy now to see that Balanchine, Tudor, et al. excelled in both idioms. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z A quick answer is that in Balanchine everything is life-enhancingly distinct. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z Actually, there is no ballet Balanchine revised more often or more extensively; he went on doing so from its 1934 premiere till 1976. In Balanchine’s ‘Serenade,’ Rituals and Gestures of Autonomy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In one of my first performances of George Balanchine’s “Agon,” I stood onstage, uncomfortable, while my partner, Teresa Reichlen, danced her short solo. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Though “Union Jack” is seldom singled out as one of Balanchine’s most original works, you can’t watch it without feeling the risks it takes. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z “Ultimate Balanchine” is in repertory through Sunday at the Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street; bostonballet.org. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z It’s a Balanchine favorite, but I’d never noticed how many times it occurs here. ‘Live From Lincoln Center’ to Air ‘Curtain Up’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Davis will keep a few things, including a picture of Wilde in class with Balanchine. Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z These troubles were evident in Friday’s program, particularly in an abbreviated version of “Swan Lake” by George Balanchine. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’ This season you presented “Tzigane,” the first piece Balanchine made after your return to the fold. After the Curtain Falls: Talking to Suzanne Farrell, Artist and Muse 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s fascinating that Balanchine’s ballets — so extremely precise, strict and fast in the demands they make — don’t limit the expressiveness of dancers. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Nichols has taught the Pennsylvania dancers plenty about the Balanchine style, above all how energy continues through a fixed position, how lines stretch in space and how speed can be combined with control. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But I find Balanchine’s account a rather dull bauble. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD One of Balanchine’s most famous maxims, for better or worse, was “ballet is woman.” Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Though they didn’t have an extensive partnership onstage, Mr. Martins, at Balanchine’s request, danced with her too. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z As the company in which Balanchine was raised, the Mariinsky arguably belongs in the festival too. Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z But in a work such as “Diamonds,” no one has the direct link to Balanchine’s artistic intentions that Farrell does because Balanchine drew the movements out of her body. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z More than 70 items by Balanchine are danced today, but at the Dance Collection you can see others. Critic’s Notebook: That ’40s Pas de Deux? You Can Still Catch It 2013-08-28T21:52:03Z At Thursday’s performance, Maria Kowroski, who has been dancing with ever greater finesse and poetry in Balanchine ballets this season, made her debut in the lead role with quietly compelling authority. Review: At City Ballet, a Prettily Arcadian ‘Dance Odyssey’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Another lies in how Balanchine turns a small corps de ballet of six women and three men into a kaleidoscope of different structural possibilities. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z “Balanchine really captured something about me,” he continued, as he had in “Rubies.” When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z That dismissal, following pointed comments she made in the New Yorker about her Balanchine expertise and her frustrations at not being able to do more for the company, fit a pattern. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Explaining Balanchine aesthetics to a lay audience should be even harder. Exploring the intersection of music and dance 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z While still a dancer in the corps de ballet, she was cast in Balanchine works like “Prodigal Son” and “Apollo.” Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Balanchine himself was not without controversy; he had a roving eye for ballerinas. Perspective | In wake of suit against New York City Ballet, audiences and funders should demand answers 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z And while spending time with someone with such direct lineage to Balanchine is a gift, it’s also just fun, Mr. Danchig-Waring said, to have an 83-year-old friend who is “tirelessly enthusiastic.” Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Villella brought the Balanchine style to Miami and turned the company into a leading repository of the tradition. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z She sketches portraits and tells stories through motion, though not the graceful pirouettes of a Balanchine swan-princess. Wenders' Pina: Dance Crazy 2011-12-29T09:58:22Z Most members of the Farrell troupe show a relaxed grasp of basic Balanchine style. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z As George Balanchine once said, dancing Tchaikovsky’s ballets is like flying. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z And it was a prelude to her last bow, which comes on Sunday, as the Sugarplum Fairy in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” a role she has danced since 2006. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Every day, Balanchine taught a class for his New York City Ballet company, and it was there that he demonstrated his vision of what dance should be. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z And the New York City Ballet canceled 17 of 47 scheduled performances of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” costing it about $5 million. Onstage, It’s Finally Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Again 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Rosemary Dunleavy staged the ballet selections from "Orpheus," which are gracefully performed by Natalia Alonso as Maria Tallchief, Native American ballerina and wife to Balanchine, and a puppyish Michael Rosen as her young American co-star. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z It’s not entirely unknown for ballet-makers to cross over to Broadway: George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are the most illustrious examples. Robert Fairchild Crosses Back to Ballet, Gershwin in Tow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The PBS series "Live From Lincoln Center" airs the New York City Ballet's production of the evergreen Tchaikovsky ballet featuring choreography by Balanchine. TV Picks: Balanchine's 'Nutcracker' on PBS 2011-12-20T00:17:06Z We may not be able to see her, and what she’s doing wrong, but we feel how hard Balanchine is taking it. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In many ways, “In Balanchine’s Classroom” is a call to action, an opportunity to study what he left behind: his teaching, which was the basis for all that followed. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The opening night review ran on the front page of The New York Times, with a photo of Balanchine toasting Stravinsky. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Theme and Variations,” a grand-manner ballet that George Balanchine made for the company in 1947, is more exposing than a cancan. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Gaîté Parisienne’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The rehearsal was filmed, which meant “hours and hours of Balanchine working on that ballet,” Hochman said. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Glinka’s irresistible “Valse Fantaisie” in B minor must have fascinated Balanchine, since he choreographed to it no less than three times. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop 2010-06-10T22:22:00Z We now know that modern ballet went Balanchine’s way; and to no other artist did Kirstein wholly defer in matters of taste and vision. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z When the Balanchine Trust approved her taking on the ballet, it wanted her to include Mr. Mitchell’s part. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z But beyond that, Mr. Litton said, Balanchine elevated “The Nutcracker” beyond its musical greatness. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Upon reflecting on all she learned from the likes of Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse, Rivera, who had long been approached about writing a memoir, decided finally to tell her story. A Dancer’s Life: Chita Rivera on Working Hard and Learning From the Best 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Pacific Northwest Ballet, by opening its return visit to New York on Wednesday night with a triple bill of three Balanchine ballets well known here, ran the risk of overfamiliarity — yet the opposite proved true. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As in the Balanchine, two dancers often mirror the back and forth of the two violins. Review: Alonzo King Lines Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z New last year, he has now committed himself to conducting the company’s central repertory of ballets by George Balanchine: familiar scores have returned with new immediacy. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The first week of New York City Ballet’s spring season is an odd one, with nary a ballet by George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins, its two essential choreographers, in sight. City Ballet’s 21st-Century Choreographers: Some Future Classics, Some Clunkers 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Debuts — all in ballets by the company’s founding ballet master, George Balanchine — abounded at the matinee performances last weekend. New Faces (and Bodies) in Classic Roles at New York City Ballet 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In another era he was a magnetic star at George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet and a personality in the popular culture who often appeared on television, a symbol of working-class grit amid ballet-world chiffon. Edward Villella and the Miami City Ballet Board 2011-11-13T23:07:55Z The lute, rising like a central fountain, is, Mr. d’Amboise said, quoting Balanchine, “a sacrifice.” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A potent symbol of experimentation, Balanchine is now also, as Mr. Wheeldon put it, “an unattainable benchmark.” City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z “She’s a Balanchine ballerina, she was one of the original interpreters of much of his choreography, and also a beloved teacher to subsequent generations of dancers.” Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Yet each works more or less effectively, even if none attain the sustained enchantment of George Balanchine’s version for New York City Ballet. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z Balanchine revived the dance in 1976, with the caller removed, the orchestra returned to the pit and a new solo for the principal man. Pacific Northwest Ballet presents an all-Balanchine evening 2010-04-08T20:14:00Z Hoover didn’t spend as much time with Balanchine as she would have liked — she joined the corps de ballet in 1980, and he died in 1983. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Balanchine remains the predominant choreographer of our era, but no better provider of an alternative view of classicism has yet emerged than his exact contemporary Ashton. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z The women of the Lovette and Lopez Ochoa ballets weren’t passive; they made demands, they showed needs, but they carried on as if this were ballroom Romanticism à la Balanchine. Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Balanchine might have worked with Coco Chanel once, but his taste in costumes was probably what caused the most complaints about his work during his lifetime. Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z This month, with Andrew Veyette, she also restored to Balanchine’s “Rubies” an impish humor it has seldom known at City Ballet of late. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z But in its wealth of Balanchine repertory City Ballet has an unmatchable asset, and to renew acquaintance with these ballets can be among the great and regular joys of living in New York. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z But her roles in the Balanchine and Robbins repertoire at City Ballet had decreased over the years, and Ms. Whelan said that she began to feel increasingly dislocated from the life of the company. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Other figures in other poses may bring to mind the dance vocabularies of Merce Cunningham or George Balanchine. Art in Review 2010-02-18T23:04:00Z Taylor, then a member of Graham’s company, performed the “Variations” solo as part of Balanchine’s ballet and continued dancing it until 1960. Drop a Fly in a Glass of Milk. What Do You Get? A Knotty Dance. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The Balanchine we see in this play, however, is nowhere near that status yet. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z How astonishing to see that Balanchine training prepares dancers for two such utterly unlike works. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Tuesday provided 21st-century choreography, with three world premieres; Wednesday presented ballets by the founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Tchaikovsky; and Thursday honored the company’s unmatched tradition of Balanchine choreography to music by Stravinsky. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z This week’s program was, like the Kennedy Center’s last week, all Balanchine. | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-20T22:03:23Z She embraced the New York dance world with enthusiasm, taking classes at the School of American Ballet with both Felia Doubrovska and George Balanchine. Beryl Grey, Acclaimed British Ballerina, Is Dead at 95 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Stravinsky was inspired to write astonishing scores for Balanchine, like “Orpheus” and “Apollo.” ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z The Candy Cane costumes of today look mostly the same as they did when Balanchine premiered the ballet in 1954. Not Off the Rack: This Year’s Bespoke ‘Nutcracker’ at City Ballet 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z And yet it’s still not clear she is a Balanchine ballerina. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In 1979 Balanchine revived “Apollo” in a reduced version, removing its minimal scenery, cutting its prologue and revising its ending. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z Mr. Martins quoted Balanchine’s words about the relationship of school and ballet company as being like an ideal marriage: The two can function independently, but are better together. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Maxwell will start with a warm-up, explaining that Balanchine intended “Stars and Stripes” as a balletic parade. 6 Things to Do This Memorial Day Weekend 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “They’re expecting us to act professionally,” said Sarah — and no doubt, these students, dancing in the footsteps of Balanchine, will do no less. PNB students land a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ job 2014-04-02T23:39:37Z His Tchaikovsky faces in many directions; with each ballet Balanchine produces a different kind of dance theater. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater 2013-01-18T23:37:16Z Ms. Homans left Chicago to pursue more serious training, first at the North Carolina School of the Arts, then at the School of American Ballet, at a time when Balanchine still reigned. This Ballerina Found History In Her Footsteps 2010-11-20T19:38:00Z George Balanchine thought of his “Nutcracker” as a gift to America’s children. Review: Peel away some of the packaging, and Music Center's 'Nutcracker' reveals its gifts 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Watching the work of Balanchine and Robbins night after night while he was a student at the School of American Ballet was his education in choreography, he said. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z In “Agon,” the masterful 1957 collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky, a performance of the first pas de trois — with India Bradley, Taylor Stanley and Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara — was mesmerizing in its tautness. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z This revival demonstrates a commitment unsurpassed in the Balanchine world today to ballet’s generation-to-generation system of passing on insights about the repertory. Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z At the “Balanchine Black & White” program on Friday night Robert Fairchild was not making his first appearance as Apollo. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:13:40Z To capture the same connective impetus within a plotless pure-dance context may well be the rarest quality in a Balanchine director. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z His sharp attack was apparent in “Hallelujah”; later that night, in “Western Symphony,” George Balanchine’s endearing 1954 homage to the Wild West, he showed some spunk, loosening up to find the cowboy within. Review: Taylor Stanley Rises in City Ballet’s ‘Hallelujah Junction’ 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The Act II divertissement is a ne plus ultra of purest style; Ms. Peck danced it with the crystalline lucidity and the time-to-spare serenity that seemed a lost aspect of Balanchine dancing five years ago. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z The youngest principal in the history of the Royal Danish Ballet, he was one of the last dancers to work closely with George Balanchine at New York City Ballet. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z Mr. Taylor found his only after dancing for Balanchine. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules 2010-02-25T22:44:00Z On Tuesday night, when New York City Ballet opened its six-week season with these three in a program called “Balanchine Short Stories,” these stories gripped anew. Review: Balanchine, the Storyteller: Frisson Is in the Details 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Chroma, now being revived by the in a triple bill with Christopher Wheeldon's Tryst and Balanchine's Symphony in C, shows just how good McGregor can be. Chroma/Tryst/Symphony in C; RainForest/The Art of Touch/A Linha Curva 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z She never regained the use of her legs; her marriage to the womanizing Balanchine, however, defied the odds. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z Like Mr. Villella, she was a City Ballet principal, formed mainly by George Balanchine. Miami City Ballet: Feeling That Warmth and Attack 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Let’s see how the Trocks invest virtuosity with wit on a program that also includes “Swan Lake” and “Go for Barocco,” a parody of George Balanchine’s fiendishly complicated patterning. The Week Ahead: Dec. 16 — 22 2012-12-16T07:40:07Z "Love Stories" adds the works of Balanchine and Robbins to the PNB mix, including Robbins' "reconsideration" of "Afternoon of a Faun." Lots of entertainment treats for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2011-10-26T22:17:04Z “The fact that Mr. Balanchine took upon himself to put me with a Caucasian ballerina and to do a wonderful pas de deux was unheard of.” Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In February 2007 she started the Balanchine Preservation Initiative, an effort to bring back Balanchine’s forgotten ballets. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z Ms. Koolish said that flowers were not often given in Balanchine’s day, but that the company now always gives bouquets to the ballerinas at premieres and galas. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z This portrait of Balanchine is made by one who saw his beauty deeply, his otherworldly beauty, his transcendent art but, more unusually, his human beauty, so singular. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z Her unfurling kicks, carefree arms and air of easy triumph turned the spoofy Balanchine ballet “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” into her private playground. Review | This ballerina played the role of a stripper, and she owned it 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z It is fascinating because there is a circularity to the Mariinsky dancing work by Balanchine, who was born in St. Petersburg and went at age 9 to the Imperial Theater School in that city. A Taste of Russian Dance in London 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is why taped music, though irksome, is less troubling with him than it would be with Balanchine or Mr. Morris. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules 2010-02-25T22:44:00Z While in Cincinnati, Gilmer performed in works by George Balanchine and contemporary choreographers, as well as dancing leading classical parts in “Cinderella,” “The Nutcracker” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z A little earlier in the season Ms. Bouder had brought her bright attack to two performances of Balanchine’s “Square Dance.” Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z There, Balanchine helped to found the highly influential School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet, and he used those institutions to revolutionize the style of dance that was performed in the United States. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Ten years before the Stravinsky Festival, McBride, then 18, went with Balanchine and a small group of City Ballet dancers to Hamburg to perform in honor of Stravinsky’s 80th birthday. To Igor, With Love and Masterpieces, George 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z But it was the city of Ashton’s greatest triumphs too, and to love both Ashton and Balanchine is the most rewarding kind of pluralism. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Later, in the main pas de deux, the lead male holds another deep plié while the ballerina stands behind him — a rare example in Balanchine of the woman steadying the man. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z After the ambitious, four-week Here/Now Festival, highlighting City Ballet’s commitment to commissioning new work, the company is settling into something older, with George Balanchine’s 1962 take on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Dance in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z And just as Balanchine distills aspects of the Orpheus story in “Chaconne,” so does Mr. Peck with that of “Rodeo”: While boiling away the plot, he keeps and concentrates its heart. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Balanchine and Graham, polar opposites, dominated the New York dance scene; Taylor yoked Balanchine’s musical taste to Graham’s dance language. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z Use such parlance and you imply that Sir Frederick Ashton is somehow more elevated than Mr. Balanchine. Review: Sarasota Ballet Shows Its Mastery of Frederick Ashton’s Marvels 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Here Balanchine style is repeatedly turned into mannerism, so that even a transfer of weight, with pelvic emphasis, becomes a mere effect. Dance Review: Shades of ?Godot? and Zombies, Not to Mention Balanchine 2011-04-27T22:04:19Z Balanchine went on to stage his “Apollo” in Copenhagen. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z His first solo, pouncing onto the beat and exploding away from it, had an experimentalist freshness that is another epitome of ideal Balanchine dancing: you couldn’t believe he’d danced it before. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z But the company’s new direction has its plusses for Mr. Gordon, especially a move to have former dancers who worked directly with Balanchine and Robbins come in to coach. Once ‘Little Joe,’ Now a Reigning New York City Ballet Principal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Over the decades, no single feature of his artistic policy has caused more grievance than this disinclination to bring in Balanchine alumni. Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z I love it; but Balanchine might well have asked for more selflessness and more mystery. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Amid this turmoil, the company faces an artistic challenge: The sudden dearth of experienced ballet masters who worked with Balanchine. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z At Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet soldiers on in its six-week run of George Balanchine’s classic version, with its pristine dancing and reverence for childhood fantasy. | Dance: The Land of Sweets Sheds Its Tutus 2013-12-20T21:05:12Z Whether playing Gershwin for "Astaire Dances II" or Glinka for Balanchine, the music soared. A bubbly mix of Balanchine, Astaire from American Contemporary Ballet 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Balanchine, who had studied music in his youth, set the poem to a simple melody, which Stravinsky then elaborated. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Over the last two years Ms. Hyltin and Mr. Fairchild have become the foremost exponents of Balanchine’s “Duo,” very finely judging the improvisatory playfulness of some parts, delivering others as ceremonious drama. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z He had grown up on the Ballets Russes and Martha Graham, but soon after buying his first ticket for City Ballet, in 1953, he became a passionate devotee of Balanchine’s art. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me,” she says of the choreographer, who died in 1983. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Balanchine, she said, “was like an ocean; the waves kept coming to him.” Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z He’s combining various Copland pieces into one larger whole — not dissimilar to Balanchine’s way of combining two Ravel waltz pieces in “La Valse.” Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Nearly 30 years later, George Balanchine created his popular full-length version, with scores of children as fairies. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD Mr. Mitchell was a protégé of George Balanchine, and Ms. Dabney was a natural fit for the company’s Balanchine-based neoclassical style. Stephanie Dabney, Electrifying Prima Ballerina, Dies at 64 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z As part of a season celebrating the 75th anniversary of the building’s rebirth as a palace of culture, City Center is hosting a ballet festival, “Balanchine: The City Center Years,” from Oct. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But in the three George Balanchine ballets performed by the company over the weekend at the Kennedy Center here, spirits and steps sparkled. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The famed ballet by George Balanchine, a staple of the winter performing arts season in New York, was scheduled to present performances through Sunday at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. NYC Ballet cancels remainder of ‘Nutcracker’ performances 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Inevitably, the anniversary calls for a staging of “Serenade,” the first ballet choreographed by Balanchine on American soil, for the school’s annual workshop showings. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Balanchine was among the choreographers who led a “Nutcracker” resurgence in the mid-20th century. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Nodding to his roots as a City Ballet principal, he also presents a night of classics by that company’s founding choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. 10 Spring and Summer Dance Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Symbolizing the continuity between Balanchine’s training at the St. Petersburg institution and his flowering in America, Khoreva danced in “Apollo” last fall in New York, at the multi-company series “Balanchine: The City Center Years.” An 18-year-old new ballet star salvages an outmoded tale of pirates, slaves and stereotypes 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The two have performed Balanchine’s one-act “Swan Lake,” and the so-called “Black Swan Pas de Deux” as a stand-alone piece. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z City Ballet was founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in 1948, and Mr. O’Brien joined the company the next year as a member of the corps. Shaun O?Brien, 86, New York City Ballet Dancer 2012-02-28T05:16:04Z Thursday’s program introduces Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering” and his “Firebird,” created with Balanchine. Dance Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z There was good Balanchine dancing in a large number of City Ballet revivals this spring, notably in most roles of “Serenade,” “Divertimento No. 15” and “Duo Concertant” and several in “Who Cares?” Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z “Balanchine is an important figure in my life,” Hoover, 60, said in an interview. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Its final premiere, in 1929, was George Balanchine’s ballet “The Prodigal Son,” whose designs by Georges Rouault had, deliberately, the glow of stained-glass windows. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z Perhaps nothing says Christmas in New York quite like “The Nutcracker” — especially George Balanchine’s version, performed by the New York City Ballet through Jan. 2. A Guide to New York Holiday Events: Trains, Nutcrackers and a 79-Foot Tree 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z We who remember it in the Balanchine era can’t help wishing it to reach greater heights. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z The rest of the week highlights Balanchine and the composers who inspired him most, with programs devoted exclusively to his Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky ballets. Dance Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z George Balanchine once said of dance and music: “If you see music simply as an accompaniment, then you don’t hear it. I occupy myself with how not to interfere with the music.” Review: City Ballet Gets a Modern Dance Fix 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Balanchine used to ask his dancers “What are you saving it for?”; these Miami dancers don’t need to be asked. Miami City Ballet, Dancing Balanchine, Raises the Bar in New York 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Villella grew to stardom at the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine and brought the master choreographer’s style and legacy to the Miami City Ballet, which is highly respected among balletomanes. ArtsBeat: New Director Imminent for Miami City Ballet 2012-04-02T21:18:33Z He recalled how even after more than 12 years’ dancing for Balanchine he would marvel at how the choreographer could still make a male solo without precedent. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z To him, as to many of us, Balanchine was the greatest figure in all the arts of our time, and it was Balanchine who kept him anchored in New York. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z His roles in Balanchine ballets included the Cavalier in his “Nutcracker,” Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Phlegmatic in “The Four Temperaments.” Albert Evans, Ebullient City Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 46 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z On the City Ballet website, the promotional image for Balanchine’s “Jewels,” which opens the season on Sept. 18, even features Mr. Ramasar. In City Ballet Shake-Up, One Dancer Out and Two Suspended 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins knew how to exploit that appeal choreographically while remaining themselves. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-13T21:54:43Z This masterpiece, the oldest that Balanchine kept in repertory, returns to open New York City Ballet’s winter season on Jan. 22, with new Apollos. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Her next one is about George Balanchine’s transformation into an American choreographer. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “Balanchine was lucky, really and truly, that Stravinsky came along at that time,” Mr. Martins said, comparing their relationship to that of the Russian choreographer Marius Petipa and Tchaikovsky. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z Ms. Alonso’s work with George Balanchine and the School of American Ballet also connects her to City Ballet. A New Leader, at Last, to Bring Cuban Ballet Into the Future 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The effervescence of Indiana Woodward brightens any ballet, but this season in Balanchine’s “La Source,” set to Delibes, her melodic finesse, her gossamer delicacy and her vivacious grace were jaw-dropping. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Peck chose the performers and the repertory, which includes works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins — the longtime mainstays of her home company. Star ballerina Tiler Peck is in L.A. to prove that BalletNow goes far beyond ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z She ascended to ballerina status with the shining power of her performances in Balanchine prima roles: the stretching ardor of her performance in “Diamonds” is an indelible memory. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z She was never in doubt about how to end it: with Balanchine’s “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” originally choreographed in 1936 for the musical “On Your Toes.” Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z For this year’s program, advanced students will perform George Balanchine’s “La Source” and “Western Symphony,” as well as Jerome Robbins’s “Circus Polka.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z During Mr. Martins’s leadership tenure at City Ballet, many dance critics and Balanchine alumni noted that much about the company’s dancing had changed considerably, as had details of its versions of Balanchine choreography. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Pazcoguin, to her distress, remains the only female soloist who has not performed the part of the Sugar Plum Fairy in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “Song of the Earth” also features many recognizable borrowings; there are strong echoes of specific lines, shapes, gestures and phrases from choreography by Balanchine, Ashton and Antony Tudor as well as from modern dance. Review: From Royal Ballet, a Blend of Enchantment and Intensity 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Night after night, Balanchine would stand in the first wing to the left of the stage, leaning against one of the flats, with his chin in hand. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z No choreographer had a stronger sense of ceremony than Balanchine, but the amount of slow procession and parade here remains breathtaking — and tremendous. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Erring on Side of Variety 2014-01-27T22:26:31Z Mr. Martin, a Balanchine fan, could hardly contain his exasperation. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。