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. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

dances Winter, Spring and – since 2010 – Fall seasons each year at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...

, as well as a Summer season at Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center is an amphitheater in Saratoga Springs, New York, which presents summer festivals of all kinds of music , dance, and opera, as well as a Wine & Food Festival...

 and tours; this is the list of ballets with casts for the 2009 Winter tour to the Kennedy Center

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C...

, beginning Wednesday, March 4, and ending Sunday, March 8.

Wednesday, March 4, Founding Choreographers

• • Chaconne
    Chaconne (ballet)
    Chaconne is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . The premiere took place Wednesday, January 22nd, 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted...
    
    

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Erica Pereira
• Gwyneth Muller
• Saskia Beskow
• Stephanie Zungre
• Dena Abergel
• Amanda Hankes

• Philip Neal
  Philip Neal
  Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...
  
  
• Adam Hendrickson
• Ask la Cour
• Daniel Applebaum
• Allen Peiffer

• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

• Abi Stafford
• Sara Mearns

• Gonzalo Garcia
• Andrew Veyette

• • Vienna Waltzes
    Vienna Waltzes
    Vienna Waltzes is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss, Jr., Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss:...
    
    

• Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...
  
  

• Tyler Angle

• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  

• Sterling Hyltin

• Arch Higgins
  Arch Higgins
  Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...
  
  

• Jenifer Ringer

• Nilas Martins

• Darci Kistler
  Darci Kistler
  Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...
  
  

• Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...
  
  

Thursday, March 5, Wheeldon, Elo, Balanchine

• • Mercurial Manoeuvres
    Mercurial Manoeuvres
    Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first Artist in Residence Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35 for City Ballet's Diamond Project...
    
    

• Tiler Peck
• Kathryn Morgan
• Stephanie Zungre

• Tyler Angle
• Gonzalo Garcia

• • Slice to Sharp
    Slice to Sharp
    Slice to Sharp is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project by Jorma Elo to music of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Antonio Vivaldi. The premiere took place June 16, 2006, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Mark Stanley and costumes by Holly...
    
    

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  
• Ana Sophia Scheller
• Teresa Reichlen

• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  
• Amar Ramasar
  Amar Ramasar
  Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...
  
  
• Craig Hall
• Robert Fairchild

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

first movement

• Ashley Bouder
• Ellen Bar

• Philip Neal
  Philip Neal
  Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...
  
  

second movement

• Sterling Hyltin

• Jared Angle

third movement

• Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....
  
  

• Andrew Veyette

fourth movement

• Sara Mearns

• Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...
  
  

Friday, March 6, Ratmansky, Martins, Balanchine

• • Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Ana Sophia Scheller

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  
• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  
• Gonzalo Garcia

• • Barber Violin Concerto
    Barber Violin Concerto (ballet)
    The Barber Violin Concerto is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins toSamuel Barber's Violin concerto, opus 14, 1941. The premiere was conducted by Robert Irving and took place on May 12, 1988 at the New York State Theater, as part of City Ballet's American...
    
    

• Sara Mearns
• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  

• Albert Evans
  Albert Evans
  Albert Evans , was a British Labour Party politician.A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936...
  
  
• Ask la Cour

• • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

• Abi Stafford
• Sterling Hyltin
• Savannah Lowery

• Jared Angle
• Daniel Ulbricht
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

Saturday, March 7, matinée, Founding Choreographers

• • Chaconne
    Chaconne (ballet)
    Chaconne is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . The premiere took place Wednesday, January 22nd, 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted...
    
    

• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  
• Erica Pereira
• Gwyneth Muller
• Saskia Beskow
• Stephanie Zungre
• Dena Abergel
• Amanda Hankes

• Sébastien Marcovici
• Adam Hendrickson
• Ask la Cour
• Daniel Applebaum
• Allen Peiffer

• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

• Abi Stafford
• Sara Mearns

• Gonzalo Garcia
• Andrew Veyette

• • Vienna Waltzes
    Vienna Waltzes
    Vienna Waltzes is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss, Jr., Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss:...
    
    

• Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...
  
  

• Tyler Angle

• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  

• Sterling Hyltin

• Arch Higgins
  Arch Higgins
  Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...
  
  

• Jenifer Ringer

• Nilas Martins

• Darci Kistler
  Darci Kistler
  Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...
  
  

• Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...
  
  

Saturday, March 7, evening, Founding Choreographers

• • Chaconne
    Chaconne (ballet)
    Chaconne is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . The premiere took place Wednesday, January 22nd, 1976, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted...
    
    

• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  
• Erica Pereira
• Gwyneth Muller
• Saskia Beskow
• Stephanie Zungre
• Dena Abergel
• Amanda Hankes

• Sébastien Marcovici
• Adam Hendrickson
• Ask la Cour
• Daniel Applebaum
• Allen Peiffer

• • Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel
    Brahms/Handel is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins in collaboration with Twyla Tharp to Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 , orchestrated by Edmund Rubbra...
    
    

• Abi Stafford
• Sara Mearns

• Gonzalo Garcia
• Andrew Veyette

• • Vienna Waltzes
    Vienna Waltzes
    Vienna Waltzes is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss, Jr., Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss:...
    
    

• Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford
  Rachel Rutherford is a soloist with New York City Ballet. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet...
  
  

• Tyler Angle

• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  

• Sterling Hyltin

• Arch Higgins
  Arch Higgins
  Arch Higgins was a soloist with New York City Ballet. He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets. From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later. He...
  
  

• Jenifer Ringer

• Nilas Martins

• Darci Kistler
  Darci Kistler
  Darci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...
  
  

• Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...
  
  

Sunday, March 8, matinée, Wheeldon, Elo, Balanchine

• • Mercurial Manoeuvres
    Mercurial Manoeuvres
    Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's first Artist in Residence Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35 for City Ballet's Diamond Project...
    
    

• Tiler Peck
• Kathryn Morgan
• Stephanie Zungre

• Tyler Angle
• Gonzalo Garcia

• • Slice to Sharp
    Slice to Sharp
    Slice to Sharp is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project by Jorma Elo to music of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and Antonio Vivaldi. The premiere took place June 16, 2006, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center with lighting by Mark Stanley and costumes by Holly...
    
    

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  
• Ana Sophia Scheller
• Teresa Reichlen

• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  
• Amar Ramasar
  Amar Ramasar
  Amar Ramasar is a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet. In 2010, Dance Magazine reported that Ramasar was one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers...
  
  
• Craig Hall
• Robert Fairchild

• • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet

first movement

• Ashley Bouder
• Ellen Bar

• Philip Neal
  Philip Neal
  Philip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...
  
  

second movement

• Sterling Hyltin

• Jared Angle

third movement

• Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree
  Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age....
  
  

• Andrew Veyette

fourth movement

• Sara Mearns

• Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard
  Charles Askegard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began his dance training at the age of five with Loyce Houlton and the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He continued his studies in Minneapolis until the age of 16, spending one summer at the School of American Ballet in 1983Mr...
  
  

Sunday, March 8, evening, Ratmansky, Martins, Balanchine

• • Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH
    Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music ofDmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
    
    

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Ana Sophia Scheller

• Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied
  Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
  
  
• Joaquín De Luz
  Joaquin de Luz
  Joaquín De Luz formerly with the American Ballet Theater , is currently a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet .-Background:...
  
  
• Gonzalo Garcia

• • Barber Violin Concerto
    Barber Violin Concerto (ballet)
    The Barber Violin Concerto is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master in chief Peter Martins toSamuel Barber's Violin concerto, opus 14, 1941. The premiere was conducted by Robert Irving and took place on May 12, 1988 at the New York State Theater, as part of City Ballet's American...
    
    

• Sara Mearns
• Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild
  Megan Fairchild is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. She studied at the Ballet West Conservatory in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was born, and later on attended the School of American Ballet as a boarding student. She went to high school at the Professional Children's School. ...
  
  

• Albert Evans
  Albert Evans
  Albert Evans , was a British Labour Party politician.A master engraver, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1936...
  
  
• Ask la Cour

• • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    

• Abi Stafford
• Sterling Hyltin
• Savannah Lowery

• Jared Angle
• Daniel Ulbricht
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

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