List of New York City Ballet 2010 Winter repertory
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New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

dances Winter, Spring and – since 2010 – Fall seasons each year at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...

, as well as a Summer season at Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center is an amphitheater in Saratoga Springs, New York, which presents summer festivals of all kinds of music , dance, and opera, as well as a Wine & Food Festival...

 and tours; this is the list of ballets with casts for the 2010 Winter season beginning with the gala, Tuesday, November 20, 2009, City Ballet's winter gala is held in November of the year preceding; The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

 is danced between the gala and the beginning of the repertory season in January.
and ending Sunday, February 28.

Winter gala


  • Tuesday, November 20, 2009 Scene Stealers at City Ballet’s Gala Night The New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

    by Claudia La Rocco, November 25, 2009 Tuesday, November 20, 2009

    • Concerto DSCH
      Concerto DSCH
      Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...



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

  • 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


    • Jewels
      Jewels (ballet)
      Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...



Rubies pas de deux

  • Aurélie Dupont
    Aurelie Dupont
    Aurélie Dupont is a French ballet dancer who performs with the Paris Opera Ballet as an Étoile. She began her career in dance at the age of ten when she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School after giving up her hopes of being a pianist...


  • Mathias Heymann


    • Naïve and Sentimental Music
      Naive and Sentimental Music
      Naïve and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by the composer John Adams. The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, "On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry", that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake versus one conscious of other purposes, such as...

      by Peter Martins
      Peter Martins
      Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

       to music of John Adams


Naïve and Sentimental Music

  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Yvonne Borree
    Yvonne Borree
    Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....

  • Jennie Somogyi
  • Janie Taylor
  • Abi Stafford
  • Ashley Bouder
  • Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...


  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

  • Tyler Angle
  • Nilas Martins
  • Jared Angle
  • Tyler Angle
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Daniel Ulbricht
  • 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:...


Mother of the Man

  • Sara Mearns
  • Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....


  • Jonathan Stafford
  • Stephen Hanna
  • Charles Askegard
    Charles Askegard
    Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...


Chain to the Rhythm

  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Teresa Reichlen
  • Tiler Peck

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

  • Gonzalo Garcia


Tuesday, January 5, Tradition And Innovation

Tuesday, January 5
    • new Martins
      Peter Martins
      Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

       ballet
    • Who Cares?
      Who Cares? (ballet)
      Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...


Thursday, January 7

Thursday, January 7
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
      A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
      A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...


Friday, January 8

January 8 Friday, January 8
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
      A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
      A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...


Saturday matinée, January 9

    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
      A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
      A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...


Saturday evening, January 9, Tradition And Innovation

    • Naïve and Sentimental Music
      Naive and Sentimental Music
      Naïve and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by the composer John Adams. The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, "On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry", that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake versus one conscious of other purposes, such as...

      by Peter Martins
      Peter Martins
      Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

       to music on John Adams
    • Who Cares?
      Who Cares? (ballet)
      Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...


Sunday matinée, January 10

Sunday matinée, January 10
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
      A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
      A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...


Tuesday, January 12

Tuesday, January 12
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
      A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)
      A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...


Thursday, January 14, Tradition And Innovation

January 14 Tradition and Innovation investigate the processes of restaging the classics and creating new masterpieces. Thursday, January 14
    • Naïve and Sentimental Music
      Naive and Sentimental Music
      Naïve and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by the composer John Adams. The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, "On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry", that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake versus one conscious of other purposes, such as...

      by Peter Martins
      Peter Martins
      Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

       to music on John Adams
    • Who Cares?
      Who Cares? (ballet)
      Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...


Friday, January 15

January 15 Friday, January 15
    • Romeo + Juliet
      Romeo + Juliet (ballet)
      Romeo † Juliet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet...


Saturday evening, January 16, Short Stories

Saturday evening, January 16
    • Fancy Free
    • Prodigal Son
    • The Firebird
      The Firebird
      The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....


Tuesday, January 19, Short Stories

    • Fancy Free
    • Prodigal Son
    • The Firebird
      The Firebird
      The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....


Wednesday, January 20, All Russian

Wednesday, January 20
    • Agon
      Agon (ballet)
      Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...

    • new Miroshnichenko ballet
    • Cortège Hongrois

Thursday, January 21

Thursday, January 21
    • Romeo + Juliet
      Romeo + Juliet (ballet)
      Romeo † Juliet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet...


Friday, January 22, Balanchine's birthday
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

one-time-only program

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

    • Naïve and Sentimental Music
      Naive and Sentimental Music
      Naïve and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by the composer John Adams. The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, "On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry", that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake versus one conscious of other purposes, such as...

      by Peter Martins
      Peter Martins
      Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...

       to music on John Adams
    • The Lady with The Little Dog

Saturday matinée, January 23, All Russian

Saturday matinée, January 23
    • Agon
      Agon (ballet)
      Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...

    • The Lady with The Little Dog
    • Cortège Hongrois

Sunday matinée, January 24, Short Stories

Sunday matinée, January 24
    • Fancy Free
    • Prodigal Son
    • The Firebird
      The Firebird
      The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....


Wednesday, January 27, The Sleeping Beauty

Wednesday, January 27

Thursday, January 28, The Sleeping Beauty

January 28 Beyond the Beauty uncover the magic that makes The Sleeping Beauty a timeless treasure for all ages. Thursday, January 28

Friday, January 29, The Sleeping Beauty

Saturday matinée, January 30, The Sleeping Beauty

Saturday evening, January 30, The Sleeping Beauty

Saturday evening, January 30

Sunday matinée, January 31, The Sleeping Beauty

Sunday matinée, January 31

Sunday evening, January 31, The Sleeping Beauty

Tuesday, February 2, The Sleeping Beauty

Wednesday, February 3, The Sleeping Beauty

Wednesday, February 3

Thursday, February 4, The Sleeping Beauty

Thursday, February 4

Friday, February 5, The Sleeping Beauty

February 5

Saturday matinée, February 6, The Sleeping Beauty

Saturday matinée, February 6

Saturday evening, February 6, The Sleeping Beauty

Sunday matinée, February 7, The Sleeping Beauty

Sunday matinée, February 7

Tuesday, February 9, All Russian

Tuesday, February 9
    • Agon
      Agon (ballet)
      Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...

    • The Lady with The Little Dog
    • Cortège Hongrois

Wednesday, February 10, Swan Lake
Swan Lake (Martins)
Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...

Wednesday, February 10

Thursday, February 11, Swan Lake
Swan Lake (Martins)
Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...

February 11 Swan Stories discover how Tschaikovsky's enchanting score has inspired so many choreographers to create their own version of Swan Lake.

Friday, February 12, Swan Lake
Swan Lake (Martins)
Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...

Saturday matinée, February 13, Swan Lake
Swan Lake (Martins)
Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...

Saturday matinée, February 13

Saturday evening, February 13, Swan Lake
Swan Lake (Martins)
Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...

Sunday matinée, February 14, Swan Lake
Swan Lake (Martins)
Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...

Sunday matinée, February 14

Tuesday, February 16, All Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe...

  • Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

  • 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...

  • Jennie Somogyi
  • Janie Taylor

  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

  • Jared Angle
  • Justin Peck
  • Sébastien Marcovici

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


  • Ashley Bouder

  • Jonathan Stafford


  • Savannah Lowery

  • Sean Suozzi


  • Amanda Hankes
  • Ashley Laracey

  • Christian Tworzyanski


Wednesday, February 17, All Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe...


  • Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

  • 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...

  • Jennie Somogyi
  • Janie Taylor

  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

  • Jared Angle
  • Justin Peck
  • Sébastien Marcovici

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


  • Ashley Bouder

  • Jonathan Stafford


  • Savannah Lowery

  • Sean Suozzi


  • Amanda Hankes
  • Ashley Laracey

  • Christian Tworzyanski


Thursday, February 18, All Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

Thursday, February 18


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


  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Sara Mearns 
  • Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

     
  • Abi Stafford

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

  • Antonio Carmena
  • Jonathan Stafford

West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...


  • Kathryn Morgan
  • Georgina Pazcoguin
  • Gretchen Smith

  • Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

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



Friday, February 19, All Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

February 19 Friday, February 19


Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe...


  • Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

  • 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...

  • Jennie Somogyi
  • Janie Taylor

  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

  • Jared Angle
  • Justin Peck
  • Sébastien Marcovici

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


  • Teresa Reichlen

  • Stephen Hanna


  • Kathryn Morgan

  • Sean Suozzi


  • Faye Arthurs
  • Lauren King

  • Christian Tworzyanski


Saturday matinée, February 20, All Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

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


  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Sara Mearns 
  • Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

     Sara Mearns replaced Rebecca Krohn and Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

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

    .
  • Abi Stafford

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

  • Antonio Carmena
  • Jonathan Stafford

West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...


  • Kathryn Morgan
  • Georgina Pazcoguin
  • Gretchen Smith

  • Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

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



Saturday evening, February 20, All Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

Saturday evening, February 20


Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer
Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe...


  • Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler
    Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...

  • 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...

  • Jennie Somogyi
  • Janie Taylor

  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...

  • Jared Angle
  • Justin Peck
  • Sébastien Marcovici

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


  • Teresa Reichlen

  • Stephen Hanna


  • Kathryn Morgan

  • Sean Suozzi


  • Faye Arthurs
  • Lauren King

  • Christian Tworzyanski


Sunday matinée, February 21, All Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

Sunday matinée, February 21


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


  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Sara Mearns 
  • Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

     Sara Mearns replaced Jennie Somogyi and Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

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

    .
  • Abi Stafford

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

  • Antonio Carmena
  • Jonathan Stafford

West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...


  • Kathryn Morgan
  • Georgina Pazcoguin
  • Gretchen Smith

  • Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...

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



Tuesday, February 23, All Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

Tuesday, February 23


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

  • Tiler Peck
  • Sara Mearns 
  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

     
  • Kathryn Morgan

  • Joaquín De Luz
    Joaquin de Luz
    Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

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

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

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

  • Antonio Carmena
  • Christian Tworzyanski

West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...


  • Faye Arthurs Faye Arthurs replaced Kathryn Morgan in West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...

  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Gretchen Smith

  • Robert Fairchild
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Justin Peck


Wednesday, February 24, All Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

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


  • Tiler Peck
  • Sara Mearns 
  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

     Sara Mearns replaced Jennie Somogyi and Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....

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

    .
  • Kathryn Morgan

  • Joaquín De Luz
    Joaquin de Luz
    Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...

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

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

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

  • Antonio Carmena
  • Christian Tworzyanski

West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite
West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...


  • Faye Arthurs Faye Arthurs replaced Kathryn Morgan in West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite
    West Side Story Suite is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to the 1957 music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and extracted from the eponymous musical which he had choreographed, with scenery by Oliver Smith, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting...

  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Gretchen Smith

  • Robert Fairchild
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Justin Peck


Thursday, February 25Jewels
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

February 25 Precious Gems explore the many facets of George Balanchine's ever-brilliant Jewels.


Emeralds

  • Abi Stafford Abi Stafford replaced Jennie Somogyi in Emeralds
  • Sara Mearns
  • Erica Pereira
  • Ana Sophia Scheller

  • Jared Angle
  • Jonathan Stafford
  • Robert Fairchild

Rubies

  • Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild
    Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...

  • Teresa Reichlen

  • 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:...



Diamonds

  • 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...


  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...



Friday, February 26 Jewels
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

Friday, February 26

Emeralds

  • Abi Stafford
  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Alina Dronova
  • Ashley Laracey

  • Sébastien Marcovici
  • Ask la Cour
  • Antonio Carmena


Rubies

  • Janie Taylor
  • Savannah Lowery

  • Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...



Diamonds

  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....


  • Charles Askegard
    Charles Askegard
    Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...



Saturday matinée, February 27 Jewels
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

Emeralds

  • Abi Stafford
  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Erica Pereira
  • Ana Sophia Scheller

  • Sébastien Marcovici
  • Ask la Cour
  • Sean Suozzi


Rubies

  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Ellen Bar

  • Gonzalo Garcia


Diamonds

  • Sara Mearns

  • Jonathan Stafford


Saturday evening, February 27 Jewels
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

Emeralds

  • Abi Stafford Abi Stafford replaced Jennie Somogyi in Emeralds.
  • Sara Mearns
  • Erica Pereira
  • Ana Sophia Scheller

  • Jared Angle
  • Jonathan Stafford
  • Robert Fairchild


Rubies

  • Janie Taylor
  • Savannah Lowery Savannah Lowery replaced Teresa Reichlen in Rubies.

  • Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...



Diamonds

  • 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...


  • Philip Neal
    Philip Neal
    Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...



Sunday matinée, February 28 Jewels
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

Emeralds

  • Abi Stafford 
  • Jenifer Ringer
  • Alina Dronova
  • Ashley Laracey

  • Jared Angle
  • Ask la Cour
  • Antonio Carmena


Rubies

  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Ellen Bar

  • Gonzalo Garcia


Diamonds

  • Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski
    Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....


  • Charles Askegard
    Charles Askegard
    Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...



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