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The Nutcracker. (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine 's production of Petipa 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Genre. neoclassical ballet. 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 ...
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.
Square Dance (ballet) Stars and Stripes (ballet) The Steadfast Tin Soldier (ballet) Stravinsky Violin Concerto (ballet) Suite of Dances (ballet) A Suite of Dances; Swan Lake (Balanchine) Les Sylphides; Symphony in C (ballet) Symphony in E-flat (ballet) Symphony in Three Movements (ballet) Symphony No. 1 (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 new company was named (or Ballet Society renamed) New York City Ballet and Balanchine remained its ballet master until his death. The program for City Ballet's first performance at City Center, conducted by the composer, consisted of Orpheus , Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C on October 11, 1948.