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New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company.
Fancy Free (ballet) Fanfare (ballet) The Firebird. Five (ballet) Five Movements, Three Repeats. Four Bagatelles. Four Last Songs (ballet) The Four Seasons (ballet) The Four Temperaments.
Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to American folk tunes arranged by Hershy Kay. It premiered on September 7, 1954 at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York. [1] The ballet was originally presented in practice clothes without scenery.
La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is a ballet by the co-founder and ballet master of New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti 's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830–35). The ballet premiered as The Night Shadow with the Ballet ...
The Concert. (ballet) The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet 's ballet master, to Chopin's : Waltz in E minor, Op. posth. The décor was by Saul Steinberg, the costumes by Irene Sharaff and the lighting by Ronald Bates. The premiere took place at City Center of Music and ...
The ballet continues to be a mainstay in the New York City Ballet's repertory. Between 1958 and 1961, Afternoon of a Faun was performed by Ballets: USA, Robbins' company, during their State Department-funded tours. During these tours, John Jones, a black dancer, was paired with Wilma Curley, and later Kay Mazzo, both white women.
La Valse is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel 's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales and La Valse. It premiered on February 20, 1951, at the City Center of Music and Drama, performed by the New York City Ballet. The ballet depicts dancers waltzing in a ballroom, during which a woman becomes attracted to a figure of death ...
Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca. 1890–1914, adapted by Hershy Kay. The premiere took place on 13 May 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, to honor British heritage in the United ...
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