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New York City Ballet ( NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the ...
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.
The Nutcracker. (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine 's production of Peptipa and Tchaikovsky 's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet, its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by ...
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 ...
Bugaku (ballet) Bugaku is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to eponymous music by Toshiro Mayuzumi, commissioned by City Ballet in 1962. The premiere took place on 30 March 1963 at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with scenery by David Hays, costumes by Karinska, and lighting by Ronald ...
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.
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.
In Memory of ... is a ballet in one act made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Berg 's Violin Concerto ( To the Memory of an Angel) of 1935 (written on the death of Manon Gropius, daughter of Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler 's widow, and Walter Gropius ), based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song, and Bach's O ...
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