[6/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Sara Adams, a...

Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Continuing from Maria Calegari’s stories...

[2/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Our next story come from former...

(1/52) Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! The first story comes from our...

In this week’s episode of Immortal Icons of Dance we focus on the legendary photographer of ballet and Broadway, Martha Swope, who helped...

Yesterday the dance world lost an icon—Judith Jamison, illustrious dancer and Ailey’s successor as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey...

In this episode, composer David K. Israel takes us inside his collaboration with the modern dance choreographer Paul Taylor. David shares...

In this episode, Theara discusses her early career in the Dance Theatre of Harlem under Arthur Mitchell and how that experience prepared...

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

In this episode we learn about the New York State Theater and the New York City Ballet from a new perspective: backstage! Perry Silvey...

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

From Alexandra Danilova'a memoir: “I wanted so much to dance [Ballet Imperial], but I didn’t; this second time he appointed Mary Ellen...

After graduating from the Imperial Ballet School, Alexandra Danilova’a first role in the Marysinsky Ballet was in Petipa’s Coppélia. She...

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

In this episode, 87 year-old Balanchine ballerina, Allegra Kent, sits down to talk about her life and career. Beginning with her...

Monumentum Pro Gesualdo was choreographed by Balanchine in 1960 for Diana Adams and Conrad Ludlow. “Walking is the key movement,...

Balanchine’s Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée” Nancy Reynolds: “Balanchine’s gift for choreographing to the strength of his dancers...

Today NYCB’s 2024-5 season opens and we are all glad to be back at the theater! Returning to the stage for opening night is Jerome...

NYCB closes their Saratoga season with Stars and Stripes and Swan Lake tonight. Here are some Saratoga memories from each of these...

This year Saratoga Performing Arts Center is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Balanchine’s “Coppélia,” which debuted here in Saratoga...