On Jerome Robbins' The Concert (or, The Perils of Everyone): “Screwy and charming; much of the time, both funny and oddly touching. A...

These photos show Mary-Ellen dancing the Sanguinic section in The Four Temperaments in the original costume. Balanchine hated the...

Liebeslieder Walzer is a 65 minute ballet in two parts containing 18 songs by Brahms. In the first part, four couples enter an ornate...

In the late 1930s, Balanchine had extra money from his work on Broadway and in Hollywood and used it to commission Paul Hindemith to...

In his first ballet, Fancy Free, Jerome Robbins cast himself as the 3rd sailor who was described as an “intense and smoldering...

Speaking of Robbins' In The Night, Clive Barnes wrote, "His dancers remain people, even in the throes of arcanely acrobatic passion"...

The beginning of Jerome Robbins’ ‘The Four Seasons’ introduces Janus the god of new beginnings, in this case representing the new year....

Who was Muriel Stuart? "She was born in 1903 in London and auditioned for Anna Pavlova at 8 years old. “When it came Stuart’s turn to...

Who was Helene Dudin? Helene Dudin was a Soviet trained ballerina who came to SAB in 1954. She was close friends with Tumey (Antonina...

Robbins’ "In the Night" is a collection of 3 duets and 1 ensemble movement at the end. Deborah Jowitt describes the ballet: “The first...

“Barefoot David Parsons, who has never partnered a ballerina, steadies New York City Ballet principal Merrill Ashley as she rises on...

In an outline for the ballet circa 1943 excerpted in “Jerome Robbins: By Himself” (affiliate link) edited by @mizvaill, Robbins wrote:...

Peter Martins’ “Barber Violin Concerto” features 2 couples, one dancing a neoclassical duet (originally Merrill Ashley and Adam Luders)...

Jerome Robbins' "In the Night" features 3 couples in various stages of romantic relationship. Walter Terry: "The touchings, the...

"The world premiere given by Ballet Theater last night at the Metropolitan, was so big a hit that the young participants all looked a...

To craft just the right caption for this anniversary, I scoured my library of Balanchine books and settled on the following 6 quotes from...

Gelsey on being a student: “I developed a lot of inhibitions, complexes about my eyes [too big], my nose [too small], my complexion—every...

Who was Antonina Tumkovsky? “Born in Kiev on Aug. 21, 1905, Ms. Tumkovsky became a soloist in the Kiev Ballet but moved to Berlin during...

Who is Elise Reiman? “Reiman came into the School during its second term. ‘It was very exciting to be thereat that time. Balanchine was...

Who was Andrei Kramarevsky? “Dancing came from my family. My father was a ballet master; my mother was a dancer. All through my childhood...