Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky

Alexei Ratmansky

Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...

 choreographed for the New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

 to the music of
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

's Concerto No. 2

Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory...

in F Major, Op. 102 (1957). The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...

. The ballet's title derives from the composer's use of DSCH

DSCH (Dmitri Shostakovich)

DSCH is a musical motif used by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself. It is a musical cryptogram in the manner of the BACH motif, consisting of the notes D, E flat, C, B natural, or in German musical notation D, Es, C, H , thus standing for the composer's initials in German...

 as a motif in allusion to his own name.

original

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
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• Ashley Bouder

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
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  Joaquin de Luz
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• Gonzalo Garcia

2009 Fall tour to Japan

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
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• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• Gonzalo Garcia
• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  

2010 Winter gala

Tuesday, November 20, 2009 Tuesday, November 20 (2009)

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Ashley Bouder

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  
• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  
• Gonzalo Garcia

• Alina Dronova
• Kaitlyn Gilliland
• Gretchen Smith

• Christian Tworzyanski
• Russell Janzen
• Justin Peck

• Likolani Brown
• Lauren King
• Georgina Pazcoguin
• Kristen Segin

• Joshua Thew
• Cameron Dieck
• Andrew Scordato
• Devin Alberda

Reviews

• http://www.nypost.com/seven/06022008/entertainment/theater/nothing_out_of_step_in_this_spirited_hit_113624.htmNY Post by Clive Barnes
  Clive Barnes (critic)
  Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...
  
  , June 2, 2008]
• NY Sun by Joel Lobenthal, June 2, 2008

• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/arts/dance/31here.htmlNY Times by Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay
  Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
  
  , May 31, 2008]
• NY Times music by James R. Oestreich, October 20, 1990