Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet made by 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...

's first Artist in Residence Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...

 to Shostakovich's

Dmitri Shostakovich

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

 Piano Concerto No. 1

Piano Concerto No. 1

Piano Concerto No. 1 refers to the first piano concerto published by one of a number of composers :...

in C minor, op. 35 for City Ballet's Diamond Project. The premiere took place on Friday, April 28th, 2000, at 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:...

 with costumes by Carole Divet and lighting by Mark Stanley.

original

• Miranda Weese
• Elena Diner
• Aubrey Morgan

• Jock Soto
  Jock Soto
  Jock Soto is a former American ballet dancer and current ballet instructor.-Career:Soto danced featured roles in over 40 ballets, of which more than 35 were created for him....
  
  
• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  

2009 Winter tour to Kennedy Center 

• Tiler Peck
• Kathryn Morgan
• Stephanie Zungre

• Tyler Angle
• Gonzalo Garcia

first cast

• Abi Stafford
• Kathryn Morgan
• Erica Pereira

• Tyler Angle
• Gonzalo Garcia

second cast

• Tiler Peck
• Alina Dronova
• Stephanie Zungre

• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• 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:...
  
  

2009 Saratoga Springs 

• Tiler Peck
• Kathryn Morgan
• Erica Pereira

• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• Gonzalo Garcia

Reviews

• NYCB article by Susan Reiter, April 30, 2000

• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E0DB1539F932A35756C0A9669C8B63NYCB review by Anna Kisselgoff
  Anna Kisselgoff
  Anna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
  
  , May 1, 2000]
• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E6DE1739F936A15752C0A9659C8B63NYCB review by Jennifer Dunning
  Jennifer Dunning
  Jennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
  
  , January 25, 2003]