To watch my 80-minute lecture on Red Angels, featuring demonstrations by Mira Nadon and violinist Mary Rowell, click here . Wendy Whelan....

Merrill Ashley in Donizetti Variations. Photo by Martha Swope, 1979. Said one dancer of Donizetti Variations, ‘It’s like an endless...

Elisha C. Keeler Square dance calling was in Elisha’s blood. His father, Thaddeus Keeler, farmer, carpenter and sawyer, was a well known...

Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden. Photo by Fred Fehl, 1960. "In Holland, a country I love with most of my heart, you don't have to...

The following is a chapter from Merrill Ashley's autobiography Dancing for Balanchine . In this chapter she recalls the making of the...

Nicholas Magallanes and Patricia Wilde. Photo by Martha Swope, 1957. "Last night at the City Center the New York City Ballet presented its first new work, and the hitherto sluggish young season came to life with a bang. The work in question was George Balanchine's "Square Dance" and it is a gem. "The set is just a bare hall such as usually houses square dancing, and on a dais sits a band of fiddlers in shirt-sleeves. Below them is caller (a famous one he is, named Elisha C. K

Violette Verdy and Conrad Ludlow. Photo by Martha Swope, 1960s. "Though the New York City Ballet's season at the City Center closes...

NYCB's 2025-26 advertising campaign by Thibaut Grevet seems to have been inspired by Gjon Mili's stroboscopic images from the 20th...

On Balanchine’s Act II pas de Deux in Midsummer Nights Dream: “But brief as it was, the change from many dancers to just two gave a...

“La Valse may have been the quintessential role of LeClercq, not only for its angular sophistication and doomed half-innocence, which she...

Patricia McBride and Nicholas Magallanes in La Valse. Photo by Fred Fehl, 1963. In 1919, Diaghilev requested that Maurice Ravel compose...

Balanchine’s Sonatine premiered on the gala night of the Ravel Festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French composer’s birth....

Suzanne: “When I first got back [to NYCB after 5 years in Europe] I did a ballet for Jerry Robbins, and another one for Jacques, both...

Stephanie Saland. Photo by Paul Kolnik “In 1977, at the age of ninety, Karinska gave a magnificent farewell performance with her...

“'I have a bit of Vienna in my bloodstream,’ Mr. Balanchine said in an interview during a lighting rehearsal some days ago. ‘I’m from the...

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

Men (L-R): Nicolas Magallanes, Jonathan Watts, ? Women(L-R): ?, Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, Jillana, ? On Balanchine’s Divertimento No....

Robert Lyon. Photo by Costas, Arlene Croce: "In his latest work for New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins uses a Glass score; he even uses...

Photo by Paul Kolnik Robbins: “Misha Baryshnikov asked me for a new work for himself and I said very tentatively—well, I can try, but I...

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