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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 ...
Robert Schumann’s “Davidsbündlertänze” is one of the last major works made by New York City Ballet 's founding choreographer and balletmaster-in-chief, George Balanchine. It is set to Robert Schumann 's Davidsbündlertänze ( Dances of the League of David ), [1] Op. 6 (1837). The idea for setting this piano work very likely came from a ...
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.
Variations for Orchestra is the last ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky 's Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam (1963–64). The premiere took place on Friday, 2 July 1982 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center .
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux [a] is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky originally intended for act 3 of Swan Lake (Op. 20, 1875–76). [2] With costumes by Barbara Karinska and lighting by Jack Owen Brown, it was first presented by New York City Ballet at the City Center of Music and Drama, New ...
New York City Ballet. Genre. neoclassical ballet. Movements for Piano and Orchestra is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Stravinsky's score of the same name. The ballet premiered on April 9, 1963, at City Center of Music and Drama, performed by the New York City Ballet. Though the two lead roles were created for Diana ...
Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet 's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's 1859 Faust at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris, including Gounod's additional ballet music from 1869. The New York City Ballet premiere was the first presentation of the dance as an ...
Western Symphony. 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.