NYCB Vol. 6 No. 13 - Allegro Brillante

“The leading dancer of the work follows the piano in the cadenza, but her cavalier also has his important part, as do the supporting dancers, in conveying what I hope is the spirit of the work.”

—George Balanchine in Balanchine’s New Complete Stories of the Great Ballets

Nicholas Magallanes in Allegro Brillante. Photos by Martha Swope, 1959.