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American Ballet Theatre, based in New York City
New York City

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, was one of the foremost ballet companies
Ballet company

A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballets....
 of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today. A writer for London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's The Observer
The Observer

The Observer is a United Kingdom newspaper published on Sundays. In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, it takes a Liberalism/social democratic line on most issues....
 describes the ABT along with the 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 with musical director Leon Barzin and with founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins....
 and the San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet

The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House , San Francisco, California, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson....
 to be a "triumvirate of great classical companies defining the American style on the world stage today".






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American Ballet Theatre, based in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, was one of the foremost ballet companies
Ballet company

A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballets....
 of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today. A writer for London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's The Observer
The Observer

The Observer is a United Kingdom newspaper published on Sundays. In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, it takes a Liberalism/social democratic line on most issues....
 describes the ABT along with the 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 with musical director Leon Barzin and with founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins....
 and the San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet

The San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House , San Francisco, California, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson....
 to be a "triumvirate of great classical companies defining the American style on the world stage today". There are three levels within the company (in rising order): ABT's corps de ballet
Corps de ballet

In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who are not soloists. They are a permanent part of the ballet company and often work as a backdrop for the principal dancers....
 , the soloist
Soloist

A soloist is a person that achieves a goal by themselves.A soloist may be:*Solo , a person playing music or singing alone*Solo , a dancer who dances alone...
s and the principals
Principal dancer

A principal dancer is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company. A principal may be male or female....
 ; there is also ABT II, formerly known as the ABT Studio Company.

History


Ff Correla Steiffel Cornejo
The company was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin
Mikhail Mordkin

Mikhail Mordkin graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet School in 1899, and in the same year was appointed ballet master. He joined Ballets Russes in 1909 as a leading dancer....
 Ballet, and then reorganized in 1940 with a new name as the Ballet Theatre. For 40 years Lucia Chase
Lucia Chase

Lucia Chase was an American dancer, actress, ballet director and also the co-founder of the American Ballet Theatre....
  directed it, working with many choreographers and ballet masters. In 1956, it was renamed the American Ballet Theatre, and has kept that name ever since. American Ballet Theatre performs at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York. In 1960, the company became the first American ballet company to dance in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
.

Artistic directors


  • Lucia Chase
    Lucia Chase

    Lucia Chase was an American dancer, actress, ballet director and also the co-founder of the American Ballet Theatre....
     and Oliver Smith
    Oliver Smith (designer)

    Oliver Smith was one of the most distinguished and prolific Tony Award-winning scenic designers in United States theatre history.Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome R...
     (1940-1980)
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Baryshnikov

    Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet Union-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century....
     (1980-1990)
  • Jane Hermann and Oliver Smith (1990-1992)
  • Kevin McKenzie
    Kevin McKenzie (ballet dancer)

    Kevin McKenzie is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre since 1991. He began his ballet instruction at the O'Brien School of Dance in South Burlington, Vermont before attending the Washington School of Ballet....
     (1992-present)


Dancers


Notable dancers of ABT's past (partial listing)




  • Alessandra Ferri
    Alessandra Ferri

    Alessandra Ferri is an Italy ballerina. She danced as a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York, as ?toile with the Corpo di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and as an international guest artist....
  • Alicia Alonso
    Alicia Alonso

    Alicia Alonso is a Cuban Ballerina#Prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer.She is considered a legend and is most famous for her portrayals of Giselle and Carmen ....
  • Amanda McKerrow
  • Amy Rose
    Amy Rose

    , also known as Rosy the Rascal, is a video game character and cartoon character who appears in most of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games developed by Sega's Sonic Team....
  • Anton Dolin
    Anton Dolin

    Sir Anton Dolin was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick Healey-Kay , an England ballet dancer and choreographer.Dolin was born in Slinfold in Sussex....


  • Antony Tudor
    Antony Tudor

    Antony Tudor , born William Cook, highly influential twentieth-century England ballet Choreography, teacher and dancer....
  • Charles Maple
  • Cynthia Gregory
    Cynthia Gregory

    Cynthia Kathleen Gregory is an American ballerina....
  • Cynthia Harvey
  • Danilo Radojevic


  • Erik Bruhn
    Erik Bruhn

    Erik Belton Evers Bruhn was a Denmark ballet dancer, choreographer, director, actor, and writer....
  • Fernando Bujones
    Fernando Bujones

    Fernando Bujones was an United States ballet dancer.Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones is regarded as one of the finest male dancers of the 20th century and hailed as the greatest American male dancer of his generation....
  • Gabrielle Brown
  • Gelsey Kirkland
    Gelsey Kirkland

    Gelsey Kirkland is an American ballet dancer, and one of the best classicists of her generation. Kirkland was reportedly inspired to dance by watching a performance of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev....
  • Johan Renvall
  • Julio Bocca
    Julio Bocca

    Julio Bocca is one of the most important ballet dancers of the later part of the 20th century and probably the most important Argentina dancer of all time....


  • Kevin McKenzie
    Kevin McKenzie (ballet dancer)

    Kevin McKenzie is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre since 1991. He began his ballet instruction at the O'Brien School of Dance in South Burlington, Vermont before attending the Washington School of Ballet....
  • Kirk Peterson
  • Leslie Browne
    Leslie Browne

    Leslie Browne is an United States ballet dancer and actress.She was born Leslie Brown in New York, the daughter of Kelly Brown and Isabel Mirrow....
  • Marianna Tcherkassky
  • Martine van Hamel
  • Melissa Hayden
    Melissa Hayden (dancer)

    Melissa Hayden was a well-known Canadian ballerina who spent most of her career with the New York City Ballet.Hayden grew up in Toronto. In the early 1940s, she moved to New York City to join the Corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall....


  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Baryshnikov

    Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet Union-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century....
  • Alexander Godunov
    Alexander Godunov

    Alexander Borisovich Godunov was a Russian ballet dancer and actor, whose defection caused a diplomatic incident between the United States and the USSR....
  • Natalia Makarova
    Natalia Makarova

    Nataliya Romanovna Makarova is a Soviet-Russian-born American actress and former prima ballerina....
  • Patrick Bissell
    Patrick Bissell

    Patrick Bissell was an American ballet dancer. He was a leading principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater. On his death at the age of 30 from a drug overdose, he was described by the artistic director of the American Ballet Theater Mikhail Baryshnikov as "without a doubt one of the brightest lights in American Ballet Theater's histor...
  • Robert La Fosse
  • Susan Jaffe
  • Vladimir Malakhov
    Vladimir Malakhov (dancer)

    Vladimir Malakhov , was a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. In 2004 he became the artistic director and first soloist of the the Staatsballett Berlin which was newly formed from the ballets of the three public opera houses....
  • Nina Ananiashvili
    Nina Ananiashvili

    Nina Ananiashvili is a Georgians ballet....

Dancers of the present


principal dancers



  • Roberto Bolle
    Roberto Bolle

    Roberto Bolle was born in Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont Region of Italy. He began ballet studies at age seven at a local school, and was accepted at the La Scala theatre ballet school in Milan at the age of eleven....


  • Angel Corella
    Angel Corella

    ?ngel Corella is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. He has been honored with the prestigious Prix Benois de la Danse award for his performance of Jerome Robbins' Other Dances with ballerina Julie Kent and has also been bestowed the National Award of Spain....
  • Herman Cornejo


  • Irina Dvorovenko
    Irina Dvorovenko

    Irina Dvorovenko is a classical ballet dancer. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She began her ballet training at the age of 10 at the Kiev Ballet School....


  • Paloma Herrera
    Paloma Herrera

    Paloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri....
  • Julie Kent
    Julie Kent

    Julie Kent with birth name Julie Cox, is an American ballerina.Julie Kent began her dance training with Hortensia Fonseca at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet....
  • Gillian Murphy
    Gillian Murphy

    Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Raised in Florence, South Carolina, South Carolina, she received most of her early dance training in that state....


  • Xiomara Reyes
    Xiomara Reyes

    Xiomara Reyes is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet....
  • Ethan Stiefel
    Ethan Stiefel

    Ethan Stiefel is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre ....
  • Diana Vishneva
    Diana Vishneva

    Diana Vishneva is a principal ballerina with both the Kirov Ballet in Russia and American Ballet Theatre in the United States. She was born in St....

soloists



  • Stella Abrera
  • Kristi Boone


  • Misty Copeland
    Misty Copeland

    Misty Copeland is an American ballerina, described by many accounts as the first African American female Soloist for the American Ballet Theatre , one of the three great American-style classical ballet Theatre company on the world stage today ....
  • Yuriko Kajiya
    Yuriko Kajiya

    Yuriko Kajiya is a Japanese people ballerina with American Ballet Theatre . She was promoted to soloist on 5 July 2007 after 5 years with the company....


  • Sarah Lane
  • Carlos Lopez
  • Sascha Radetsky
    Sascha Radetsky

    Sascha Radetsky is a Solo with the American Ballet Theatre and an actor.He was born in Santa Cruz, California, California, and began studying ballet in the San Francisco Bay Area....


  • Jared Matthews
  • Veronika Part
  • Maria Riccetto


  • Craig Salstein
  • Gennadi Saveliev
  • Daniil Simkin

corps de ballet



  • Alexei Agoudine
  • Eun Young Ahn
  • Gemma Bond
  • Kelley Boyd
  • Isabella Boylston
  • Julio Bragado-Young
  • Marian Butler
  • Maria Bystrova
  • Nicola Curry
  • Gray Davis
  • Edward Pearce
  • Julie Pearce


  • Grant Delong
  • Roddy Doble
  • Tobin Eason
  • Kenneth Easter
  • Karin Ellis-Wentz
  • Zhong-Jing Fang
  • Thomas Forster
  • Jeffrey Golladay
    Jeffrey Golladay

    Jeffrey Golladay is an American ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre ....
  • Nicole Graniero
  • Alexandre Hammoudi
  • Melanie Hamrick


  • Blaine Hoven
  • Mikhail Ilyin
  • Carrie Jensen
  • Vitali Krauchenka
  • Daniel Mantei
  • Elizabeth Mertz
  • Simone Messmer
  • Elina Miettinen
  • Anne Milewski
  • Patrick Ogle
  • Luciana Paris




  • Renata Pavam
  • Joseph Phillips
  • Lauren Post
  • Jacquelyn Reyes
  • Luis Ribagorda
  • Jessica Saund
  • Arron Scott
    Arron Scott

    Arron Scott is an American ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre ....
  • Hee Seo
  • Christine Shevchenko
  • Sarah Smith
  • Isaac Stappas


  • Cory Stearns
  • Sean Stewart
  • Eric Tamm
  • Devon Teuscher
  • Melissa Thomas
  • Mary Mills Thomas
  • Leann Underwood
  • Karen Uphoff
  • Jennifer Whalen
  • Katherine Williams
  • Roman Zhurbin

Special repertoire

Many choreographers have staged works especially for ABT, including George Balanchine
George Balanchine

George Balanchine , born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgians parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical for...
, Adolph Bolm
Adolph Bolm

Adolph Rudolphovitch Bolm was a Russian born American ballet dancer and choreographer.He graduated from the Russian Imperial Ballet School in Saint Petersburg in 1904, and that same year he became a dancer with Mariinsky Ballet....
, Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine

Michel Fokine was a groundbreaking Russian choreography and dance.He was born in Saint Petersburg, as son of a prosperous, middle-class merchant and at the age of 9, he was accepted into the Saint Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy....
, Léonide Massine, and Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska

File:Bronislava Nijinska.jpgBronislava Nijinska was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Polish descent,Nijinska was born in Minsk, the third child of the Polish dancers Tomasz and Eleonora Bereda Nizynsky....
. The great British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 choreographer Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor

Antony Tudor , born William Cook, highly influential twentieth-century England ballet Choreography, teacher and dancer....
 made his American debut with ABT. The legendary Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille

Agnes George de Mille was an American dancer and choreographer....
 staged the majority of her ballet works with them. Other renowned choreographers include Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was an United States film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater....
, Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer. She has won Emmy Award and Tony Award awards, and currently works as a choreographer in New York City....
, and Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey Jr. was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York Theater. Ailey is largely credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance....
.

ABT's 1976 production of The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891?92. Alexandre Dumas, p?re's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
 starring Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet Union-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century....
 and Gelsey Kirkland
Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland is an American ballet dancer, and one of the best classicists of her generation. Kirkland was reportedly inspired to dance by watching a performance of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev....
 was televised the following year and has become a broadcast classic.

The main season is held during eight weeks in the spring at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. The 2008 spring season will include The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle
Giselle

Giselle is a ballet by Adolphe Adam. It has 2 acts, 2 scenes, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Th?ophile Gautier and was originally choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot ....
, Don Quixote
Don Quixote (ballet)

Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes....
, The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary composer Franz Leh?r. The Librettos, Viktor L?on and Leo Stein , based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband ? on an 1861 comedy play, L'attach? d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac....
, Swan Lake
Swan Lake

Swan Lake is a ballet, Opus number 20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed 1875-1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser was fashioned from Russian folk tales as well as an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse....
, Le Corsaire
Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a scenario originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron....
, La Bayadère
La Bayadère

La Bayad?re is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the Ballet Master Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus....
, Etudes, and a new Twyla Tharp ballet premiere.

Today, ABT encourages the growth of dance and choreography by holding a summer intensive session for young people from across the country. Its Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady during his presidency from 1961 until his John F....
 School teaches throughout the year the style and techniques specifically used by ABT. David Alvarez
David Álvarez

David ?lvarez is the creator of the comic strip "Yenny" and illustrator and storyboard artist for DC Comics Looney Tunes series, The Walt Disney Company and other companies....
, one of the original Billys in the Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 production of Billy Elliot the Musical
Billy Elliot the Musical

Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical theatre based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall ....
, is a student on full scholarship at the JKO School and has danced feature roles in the ABT's productions of The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891?92. Alexandre Dumas, p?re's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
 and The Sleeping Beauty.

Ballets performed


Below is a list of works which have been performed by American Ballet Theatre. Not all of the works are currently in the company's repertory, listed alphabetically.

Adagio for Strings, Afternoon of a Faun
Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)

Afternoon of a Faun is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently ballet master of New York City Ballet, to Claude Debussy Pr?lude ? l'apr?s-midi d'un faune....
 (Robbins
Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was an United States film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater....
), Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky
Nijinsky

Nijinsky can refer to:*Vaslav Nijinsky ballet dancer and choreographer*Nijinsky about the eponymous dancer starring Alan Bates and produced by Harry Saltzman...
), Airs, Aleko, Amazed in Burning Dreams, Americans We, Amnon V'Tamar, L'Amour et son Amour, Anastasia, Angrismene, Annabel Lee, Apollo
Apollo (ballet)

Apollo is a ballet in two Tableau vivant composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by balletmaster George Balanchine in 1928, the composer contributing the libretto....
, Appalachian Spring
Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring is a ballet score by Aaron Copland that premiered in 1944 and achieved widespread popularity as an orchestral suite. The ballet, scored for a thirteen-member Chamber music orchestra, was created at the request of choreographer and dancer Martha Graham and commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; it premiered on Octob...
, Artemis, At Midnight, Awakening

Bach Partita, Le Baiser de la Fée (John Neumeier
John Neumeier

John Neumeier is a well-known United States ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since 1973....
), Baker's Dozen, Le Bal, Balladen der Liebe, Ballet Imperial
Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (ballet)

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine on his earlier company, American Ballet Caravan to Piano Concerto No....
, Barn Dance, Baroque Game, La Bayadère
La Bayadère

La Bayad?re is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the Ballet Master Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus....
, Beatrice, The Beloved, Billy the Kid, Birthday Offering, Bitter Rainbow, Black Ritual (Obeah), Black Tuesday, Blood Wedding, Bluebeard, Bolero (solo), Bolero, Bourrée Fantasque, Brahms Quintet, A Brahms Symphony, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Brief Fling, Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, The Bull Dancers, Bum's Rush

The Capital of the World, Capriccio Espagnol, Capriccioso, Caprichos, The Careless Burghers, Carmen (Alberto Alonso), "Carmen" (Roland Petit
Roland Petit

File:RolandPetit09.jpgRoland Petit is a France choreographer and dancer born in Villemomble near Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Op?ra ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets, which include:...
), Carnaval, The Catherine Wheel, Cinderella, Cinderella (Kudelka
James Kudelka

James Kudelka, Order of Canada, , is a choreographer, dancer, and director. He was the artistic director for the National Ballet of Canada from 1996 to 2005, now serving as the National Ballet's artist in residence....
), Circo de Espana, Clair de Lune, Clear, The Combat, Concerto (Dollar/Chopin), Concerto (Dollar/Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
), Close to Chuck, Concerto (MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan

Sir Kenneth MacMillan was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977....
), Concerto (Ross), Concerto no. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Concerto Six Twenty-Two (duet), Concert Waltzes, Configurations, Conflict, Continuum, Conterdances, Coppélia
Coppélia

Copp?lia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-L?on to a ballet libretto by Saint-L?on and Charles Nuitter and music by L?o Delibes....
, Corbaille de Fleurs, Le Corsaire
Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a scenario originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron....
 (full-length ballet), Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Cruel World

Dancing with Monet, Danses Concertante, Catie Stillwell, Danza del Molinero, Dark Elegies, Death and the Maiden, Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, Designs with Strings, Desir (pas de deux), Dialogues, Diana and Actéon
Tsar Kandavl or Le Roi Candaule

Tsar Kandavl; AKA Le Roi Candaule is a Grand ballet in 4 Acts-6 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni....
 (pas de deux), Dim Lustre, Disposition, Diversion of Angels, Divertimento-Rossini, Divertissement D'Auber, Don Domingo de Don Blas, Donizetti Variations, Don Quixote (ballet)
Don Quixote (ballet)

Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes....
, Don Quixote (Grand pas de deux), Don't Panic!, Dorian, The Dream, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, Duets

Eccentrique, Echoing of Trumpets, Eden (pas de deux), Electra, Elegy, The Elements, The Enchanted, The Encounter, Enough Said, Ensayo Sinfonica, Epilogue, Esmeralda
Esmeralda

Esmeralda is Spanish and Portuguese for "Emerald ".Esmeralda may also refer to:...
 (pas de deux - after Perrot), Esmeralda (pas de deux - Stevenson), La Esmeralda
La Esmeralda (ballet)

La Esmeralda is a ballet in 3 acts, 5 scenes, inspired by The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot; with music by Cesare Pugni and design by William Grieve , D....
 (Beriosoff), Espana, Estuary, The Eternal Idol, Etudes, Everlast

Facsimile, Fair at Sorochinsk, Fall River Legend, Fancy Free
Fancy Free

Fancy Free is a ballet by Jerome Robbins, subsequently balletmaster of New York City Ballet, made on Ballet Theatre, predecessor of American Ballet Theatre, to Leonard Bernstein's eponymous music from 1944 with scenery by Oliver Smith , costumes by Kermit Love and lighting by Ronald Bates....
, Fandango, Fantaisie Serieuse, The Fantastic Toyshop
La Boutique fantasque

La Boutique fantasque or The Magic Toy Shop was a ballet conceived by L?onide Massine who wrote the choreography and the libretto....
, Festa, Fest Polonaise, Field Chair and Mountain, La Fille Mal Gardée
La Fille Mal Gardée

La Fille mal gard?e is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by :fr:Pierre-Antoine Baudouin 1789 painting Le Reprimande/Une Jeune Fille Querell?e par sa M?re....
, Firebird
The Firebird

The Firebird is a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the Firebird that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, Five Sketches, Flames of Paris
Flames of Paris

Flames of Paris is a Classicism ballet with music by musicologist and composer Boris Asafiev based on songs of the French Revolution, and originally choreographed by Vasily Vainonen, with design by Vladimir Dmitriev....
, Flower Festival in Genzano
The Flower Festival in Genzano

The Flower Festival in Genzano is a one-act ballet by Denmark choreographer and balletmaster August Bournonville . Bournonville created the work for Denmark's Royal Danish Ballet in 1858 on the basis of the general enthusiasm among Danes for Italy....
, Follow the Feet, The Four Marys, Francesca da Rimini, From Here on Out, The Fugue

Gaîté Parisienne
Gaîté Parisienne

Ga?t? Parisienne is a 1938 ballet based on music by Jacques Offenbach, arranged by Manuel Rosenthal. The ballet had the original title of Tortoni, after a Paris caf?, but Rosenthal recalled that Count ?tienne de Beaumont, the ballet's librettist, later came up with the ballet's eventual title....
, Gala Performance, The Garden of Villandry, Gartenfest, Gayaneh (pas de deux), Gemini, Getting Closer, Gift of the Magi, Giselle
Giselle

Giselle is a ballet by Adolphe Adam. It has 2 acts, 2 scenes, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Th?ophile Gautier and was originally choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot ....
, Glinka Pas de Trois, Glow-Stop, Gong , Goya Pastoral, Goyescas, Graduation Ball, Grand Pas Classique, Le Grand Pas de Deux, Grand Pas (Glazunov
Alexander Glazunov

Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher and Conducting. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the October Revolution....
), Grand Pas Romantique, Le Grand Spectacle, Grand Tarantella
Tarantella

The Tarantella is a South Italy dance, its name coming from the town of Taranto, where it originated. It is among the most recognized of traditional Italian music....
, Grass, Graziana, The Great American Goof, Great Galloping (Gottschalk
Gottschalk

Gottschalk is a German name, literally translating to "servant of God".people called Gottschalk:*Godescalc of Benevento, eighth-century Lombard duke...
), The Green Table
The Green Table

The Green Table is the masterpiece of German choreographer Kurt Jooss, and his most popular work, depicting the futility of peacemaking of the 1930's....
, The Guards of Amager (Bournonville)

Hamlet Connotations, Harbinger, Harlequinade (pas de deux - Balanchine), Harlequinade (Pas de deux - Stevenson), The Harvest According, Harvest Time, Helen of Troy, Hereafter, Las Hermanas, Hommage a Lucia, How Near Heaven, The Howling Cat, Huapango

In a Country Garden, In Volo, L'Inconnue, The Informer, Interludes, Intermezzo, Interplay, In The Upper Room, Italian Suite (four dances)

Jabula, Jack And Jill (Pas de deux), Jardin Anime (from Le Corsaire
Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a scenario originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron....
, Act II), Jardin aux Lilas, Jeu D’Esprit (Pièce d’Occasion), Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, Jeux, Jeux des Cartes, Journey, Jubilee, Judgment of Paris, Jump Start

Kaleidoscope, Known by Heart, Kontraste

Lady From the Sea, Lady into Fox, The Leaf and the Wind, The Leaves Are Fading (pas de deux), Legende (pas de deux), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Lilting Fate, The Little Ballet, Little Improvisations, The Love Song

Mademoiselle Angot, The Maids, Manon
L'histoire de Manon

L'histoire de Manon is a ballet comprising the music of Jules Massenet, arrangement and partially orchestration by United Kingdom composer Leighton Lucas....
, Marimba, Meadow, Mechanical Ballet, Medea
Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
 (pas de deux), The Meeting, Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
 Symphony, The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow (ballet)

The ballet "The Merry Widow" is an adaptation of Franz Leh?r's romantic operetta The Merry Widow . John Lanchbery and Alan Abbott adapted the score of the operetta for ballet and retained the style of Leh?r's orchestration....
, Minkus Pas de Trois, The Miraculous Mandarin, The Mirror, Miss Julie, The Mollino Room, Momentum, Monument for a Dead Boy, Moondance, Moonlight Sonata, Moon Reindeer, The Moor's Pavane, La Muerte Enamorada, Murder, My Funny Valentine

Napoli Divertissements, N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz, Night Journey, Nimbus, Nine Sinatra Songs, Les Noces
Les Noces (Robbins)

Les Noces is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet balletmaster, to Igor Stravinsky Les Noces from 1923 for American Ballet Theatre with sets by Oliver Smith under supervision of Rosaria Sinisi, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt and lighting by Jennifer Tipton....
, The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891?92. Alexandre Dumas, p?re's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
 (Baryshnikov), The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891?92. Alexandre Dumas, p?re's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
 (McKenzie
Kevin McKenzie (ballet dancer)

Kevin McKenzie is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre since 1991. He began his ballet instruction at the O'Brien School of Dance in South Burlington, Vermont before attending the Washington School of Ballet....
)

Odalisque, Ode to Glory, Offenbach in the Underworld, Once More Frank, On Stage!, Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin (opera)

Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, is an opera in 3 acts , by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin....
, Ontogeny, Othello, The Other, Other Dances, Ovid Metamorphoses

Paean, Paquita
Paquita

Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes, with libretto by Joseph Mazilier and Paul Fouch?. Originally choreoghraphed by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Edouard Deldevez....
, Paquita (pas de deux), The Parliament of the Birds, Pas de Deux (Anatole Oboukhoff), Pas de Deux Holberg, Pas de Deux Imperiale (from Anastasia, Act II), Pas de "Duke", Pas de Quatre
Pas de Quatre

Pas de Quatre is a ballet divertissement choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at His Majestys Theatre to music composed by Cesare Pugni....
, Pas d'Esclave (from Le Corsaire), Pas des Deesses, Pas de Trois (Valentina Pereyslavec), Pas et Lignes, Le Passage Enchante, Les Patineurs, Pavane, La Peri (pas de deux), Petite Mort, Peter and the Wolf (Bolm), Peter and the Wolf (Smuin), Petrouchka, Pièce d’Occasion, The Pied Piper, Pierrot Lunaire, Pillar of Fire, Pleroma, Points of Jazz, Polovtsian Dances, Polyandrion, Prevailing Westerlies, Princess Aurora (excerpt from The Sleeping Beauty), The Prodigal Son
Prodigal Son (ballet)

Prodigal Son is a ballet made on Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine, subsequently co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet, to Sergei Prokofiev Le Fils Prodigue, op....
, A Promise, Pulcinella Variations, Push Comes to Shove

Quartet, Quintet

Rabbit and Rogue (Tharp
Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer. She has won Emmy Award and Tony Award awards, and currently works as a choreographer in New York City....
), Raymonda
Raymonda

Raymonda is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an Apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Opus number 57....
, Raymonda (Act III), Raymonda (Divertissments), Raymonda (Divertissements from Act II & Act III), Raymonda (Grand Pas Classique), The Red Shoes, Remanso, Les Rendezvous, Rendezvous(Pas de deux - Hoff), Rendezvous (pas de deux - Nijinska), Requiem, Le Retour, Reverie, Rib of Eve, Ricercare (pas de deux), Rigaudon, The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French language title, Le Sacre du Printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under impresario Serge Diaghilev....
, The River, Rodeo
Rodeo (Copland)

Rodeo is a ballet score written by Aaron Copland in 1942. The ballet consists of five sections: "Buckaroo Holiday", "Ranch House Party", "Corral Nocturne", "Saturday Night Waltz", and "Hoe-Down"....
, Romantic Age, Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
 (MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan

Sir Kenneth MacMillan was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977....
), Romeo and Juliet (Tudor
Antony Tudor

Antony Tudor , born William Cook, highly influential twentieth-century England ballet Choreography, teacher and dancer....
), Romeo and Juliet (pas de deux - Bruhn), Romeo and Juliet (pas de deux - Nureyev), Romeo and Juliet (pas de deux - Tchernichov), A Rose for Miss Emily, Russian Soldier

Le Sacre du Printemps (see above: The Rite of Spring), Sargasso, Scherzo for Massah Jack, Schubertiade, Schuman Concerto, Sea-Change, Sebastian, Sechs Tänze, Sentient Bach, Serious Pleasures, Seven Faces of Love, Seven Spanish Songs, Shadow of the Wind, Shadowplay, Side Show, Sin and Tonic, Sinatra Suite, Sinfonietta, "...smile with my heart", Slavonika, The Sleeping Beauty, The Snow Maiden
Snegurochka

Snegurochka , or the Snow Maiden , is a character in Russian folklore.In one story, she is the daughter of Spring and Frost, who yearns for the companionship of mortal humans....
, Soirée Musicale, A Soldier's Tale, Solitaire (pas de deux), Solo, Some Assembly Required, Something Special, Some Times, La Sonnambula
La Sonnambula (ballet)

'La Sonnambula' is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster, 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 and costumes by Barbara Karinska....
, Spartacus (pas de deux, Act III), S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Le Spectre de la Rose
Le Spectre de la Rose

Le Spectre de la Rose is a ballet of the Ballets Russes based on a poem by Th?ophile Gautier. The music, by Carl Maria von Weber, was taken from his short piece Invitation to the Dance....
, Sphinx, The Sphinx, Spring and Fall, Spring Waters, States of Grace, Stepping Stones, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, A Streetcar Named Desire, Streetcar Royalty, Summer Day (pas de deux), Sunset, Swan Lake
Swan Lake

Swan Lake is a ballet, Opus number 20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed 1875-1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser was fashioned from Russian folk tales as well as an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse....
, Swan Lake (McKenzie
Kevin McKenzie (ballet dancer)

Kevin McKenzie is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre since 1991. He began his ballet instruction at the O'Brien School of Dance in South Burlington, Vermont before attending the Washington School of Ballet....
), La Sylphide
La Sylphide

La Sylphide is one of the world's oldest surviving romantic ballets. There are two versions of the ballet; the version choreography by the Denmark balletmaster August Bournonville is the only surviving version to date....
, Les Sylphides
Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative Ballet Blanc. Its original choreography was by Mikhail Fokine, with music by Fr?d?ric Chopin orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov....
, Sylvia
Sylvia (ballet)

Sylvia, originally Sylvia ou La Nymphe de Diane, is a full-length ballet in two or three act , first choreography by Louis M?rante to music by L?o Delibes in 1876....
, Sylvia (pas de deux), Symphonic Variations, Symphonie Concertante, Symphony in C
Symphony in C (ballet)

Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Georges Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory....


Tales of Hoffmann, Tally Ho- or the Frail Quarry, The Taming (pas de deux), The Taming of the Shrew, Tarantella
Tarantella (ballet)

Tarantella is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle , Op....
 (pas de deux), Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux

The Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to an excerpt from Swan Lake, Op....
, Texas Fourth, Theatre, Theme and Variations
Theme and Variations (ballet)

Theme and Variations is a ballet by George Balanchine to the final movement of Suite No. 3 for Orchestra in G major, Op. 55 by Peter Tchaikovsky....
, The Thief Who Loved a Ghost, This Property is Condemned, Three-Cornered Hat, Three Essays, Three Preludes, Three Virgins and a Devil, The Tiller in the Fields, Till Eulenspiegel, Times Past, Top Hat and Tails, Torso, The Traitor, Transcendental Etudes, Triad, Trio a Deux, Triptych, Tristan (pas de deux), Tropical Pas de Deux, Turnstile

Undertow, Unfinished Symphony, Us (pas de deux)

Variations on 'America', Variations for Four, La Ventana, Vestris, Venetian Carnival, Voices of Spring, Voluntaries

Walk This Way, Waltz Academy, The Wanderer (Errante), Way Out, Weren't We Fools?, The Wild Boy, The Wind in the Mountains, Winter's Eve, Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison
George Harrison

George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
, Without Words, The Wooden Prince (solo), Workout, workwithinwork

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