"George Balanchine’s Vienna Waltzes  was given for the first time this season, in one of its very best performances, Tuesday night by the...

Jacques d'Amboise with Suzanne Farrell, Gloria Govrin and Patricia Neary in Balanchine's Apollo, 1965. “It was becoming a more and more...

Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell in Chaconne. Photo by Max Waldman. I’m so happy today begins NYCB’s Spring Season. Back to my daily...

[37/50] Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear a Jerome Robbins'...

Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Suzanne Farrell, who was...

Robert Maiorano wrote a book Balanchine’s Mozartiana: The Making of a Masterpiece in which he documented just that—the making of this...

In his autobiography I Was a Dancer , Jacques d’Amboise recounts how Balanchine’s Movements for Piano and Orchestra came to be: “Diana...

Edwin Denby, the poet and dance critic wrote the following about Balanchine’s ‘Ballet Imperial’ [Now Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 2] as...

Finding an Audience “Dancers and musicians paraded down Broadway to draw attention to the season. They also made special appearances at...

Suzanne Farrell wrote: “I was cast as one of four tall fairies in Titania's retinue; Diana Adams was Titania. One day while we were...

Tzigane was the first ballet that Balanchine choreographed for Suzanne after she returned to NYCB. She wrote about the choreographic...

Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet recieved lukewarm reviews when it premiered: "Naturally enough, there are moments--and already I...

After Suzanne's 6-year absence from NYCB, the first work Balanchine choreographed on her was Tzigane. The ballet was made in just 6 days...

On this day in 1983, Balanchine was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. These are photos of Suzanne accepting the award on his...

(26/50) I’m very inspired by all the family legacies in this company. I was able to find at least 10 instances of dancers whose children...

(16/50) Suzanne: "Mr. Balanchine treated all human beings with respect, including children. He never talked down to them, or for that...

'Ballet Imperial' was choreographed in 1941 for American Ballet Caravan's South American tour. It was thought that a classical ballet...

“Ballet began when Terpsichore touched Apollo’s finger, as on the Sistine ceiling God touches Adam’s, and inspired a pas de deux in which...

(2/2) Balanchine on his 1968 revival of Slaughter on Tenth Avenue: "It is not really a revival of the old Slaughter, just that we are...

“Mr. B was friendly with M. Arpels of Van Cleef and Arpels, and, in a mutually profitable publicity heist, I went with George to the...