The Four Seasons 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...

 balletmaster Jerome 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...

 to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

's I Vespri Siciliani (1855), I Lombardi (1843) and Il Trovatore

Il trovatore

Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Cammarano died in mid-1852 before completing the libretto...

(1853). The premiere took place on January 18, 1979, 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:...

 with scenery and costumes by Santo Loquasto

Santo Loquasto

Santo Richard Loquasto is a Sicilian-Italian-American production designer, scenic designer and costume designer for stage, film, and dance. He is a descendant of Libertino lo Guasto of Serradifalco, Caltanissetta, Sicily. Indy race car driver Al Loquasto was his first cousin...

 and lighting by Jennifer Tipton

Jennifer Tipton

Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera.In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University...

.

original

• Heather Watts
  Heather Watts
  Heather Watts was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. A native of California, Ms. Watts was born as Linda Heather Watts in Long Beach on September 27, 1953. She started taking up ballet at the age of 10, came to New York at the age of 13 on a Ford Foundation scholarship to attend the...
  
  
• Kyra Nichols
• Jerri Kumery
• Stephanie Saland
• Maria Calegari
• Patricia McBride
  Patricia McBride
  Patricia McBride is a ballerina who spent nearly 30 years dancing with the New York City Ballet....
  
  

• David Richardson
  David Richardson
  David John Richardson in Johannesburg played 42 Tests and 122 One Day Internationals for South Africa. He also represented Eastern Province in various domestic competitions....
  
  
• Joseph Duell
• Peter Frame
• Francis Sackett
• Daniel Duell
• Bart Cook
• Mikhail Baryshnikov
  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet and American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Frohlich
• Gerard Ebitz

2008 Winter tour to the London Coliseum

Janus

• Jason Fowler
  Jason Fowler (dancer)
  Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...
  
  

Winter

• 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. ...
  
  

• Adam Hendrickson
• Antonio Carmena

Spring

• Sara Mearns

• Jared Angle

Summer

• Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...
  
  

• Stephen Hanna

Fall

• 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:...
  
  
• Daniel Ulbricht

2008 Spring — Jerome Robbins celebration

Janus

• Jason Fowler
  Jason Fowler (dancer)
  Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...
  
  

Winter

• 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. ...
  
  

• Adam Hendrickson
• Antonio Carmena

Spring

• Sara Mearns

• 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...
  
  

Summer

• Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...
  
  

• Tyler Angle

Fall

• 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:...
  
  
• Daniel Ulbricht

2008 Saratoga Springs

Winter

• 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. ...
  
  

• Antonio Carmena
• Adam Hendrickson

Spring

• Sara Mearns

• 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...
  
  

Summer

• Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

Fall

• Ashley Bouder

• 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:...
  
  
• Daniel Ulbricht

first cast

Janus

• Ask la Cour

Winter

• Justin Peck

• Kathryn Morgan

• Sean Suozzi
• Christian Tworzyanski

Spring

• Kaitlyn Gilliland

• Jenifer Ringer

• Tyler Angle

Summer

• Megan LeCrone

• Rebecca Krohn

• 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...
  
  

Fall

• Henry Seth

• Tiler Peck

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

second cast

Janus

• Ask la Cour

Winter

• Justin Peck

• Kathryn Morgan

• Sean Suozzi
• Christian Tworzyanski

Spring

• Kaitlyn Gilliland

• Jenifer Ringer

• Tyler Angle

Summer

• Megan LeCrone

• Rebecca Krohn

• 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...
  
  

Fall

• Henry Seth

• Tiler Peck

• 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:...
  
  
• Antonio Carmena

Articles

• http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70815F6345413728DDDAD0994D9405B898BF1D3NY Times, Jack Anderson
  Jack Anderson (dance critic)
  Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...
  
  , January 14^th, 1979]

Reviews

• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/dance/21trad.htmlNY Times, 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...
  
  , January 21^st, 2008]

• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2DA1439F937A35755C0A963948260NY Times, Jack Anderson
  Jack Anderson (dance critic)
  Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...
  
  , June 4^th, 1985]
• http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A17FD3D5D12728DDDA90A94D9405B898BF1D3NY Times, 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...
  
  , January 20^th, 1979]

External links

• NYCB website

• Robbins Foundation and Trust website