Ragtime (II)
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Ragtime is the third ballet made by New York City Ballet
's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine
to Igor Stravinsky
's Ragtime for Eleven Instruments (1918). The premiere took place on July 15, 1966, at Philharmonic Hall
, New York. The first City Ballet performance was on January 17, 1967, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
. The previous ballets made to Stravinsky's Ragtime were Ragtime (I)
for City Ballet in 1960 and one of a number of "informal little things" made in St. Petersburg in 1922.
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 co-founder and balletmaster George 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...
to Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
's Ragtime for Eleven Instruments (1918). The premiere took place on July 15, 1966, at Philharmonic Hall
Philharmonic Hall
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall in Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the home of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building...
, New York. The first City Ballet performance was on January 17, 1967, 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:...
. The previous ballets made to Stravinsky's Ragtime were Ragtime (I)
Ragtime (I)
Ragtime is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's 1918 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen's 1947 work for Ballet Society, Blackface; costumes by...
for City Ballet in 1960 and one of a number of "informal little things" made in St. Petersburg in 1922.
Original cast
- Suzanne FarrellSuzanne FarrellSuzanne Farrell is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C....
- Arthur MitchellArthur Mitchell (dancer)Arthur Mitchell is an African-American dancer and choreographer who created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem...