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...

Who was Stanley Williams? “[Stanley] Williams entered the Royal Theatre at nine. ‘The audition was very simple. You take your shoes and...

Who was Alexandra Danilova? Known to friends as “Choura” and known to students as simply “Madame”, Alexandra Danilova was born in 1904,...

Last week in the New York Public Library, I learned how to view things on microfilm, and I found this program from an early SAB...

Who was Felia Doubrovska? Doubrovska was born in 1896 and she trained at the Imperial Ballet School and joined the Mariinsky Ballet in...

Who was Anatole Oboukhoff? Anatole Oboukhoff was born in St. Petersburg in 1896. He studied at the Imperial Ballet School and went on to join the company in 1913, 8 years before Balanchine. He was promoted to premier danseur in 1917. His performance credits were extensive: He partnered Anna Pavlova on her last Russian tour in 1914 He danced with the Romanian Ballet the Russian Romantic Ballet the Ballet Riga in Latvia the Ballet de l’Opéra Russes in Paris the Lithuanian Opera

“On the fourth and top floor of an unprepossessing building which squats on the noisy northeast corner of Manhattan’s Madison Avenue and...

Who was Dorothie Littlefield? “She was the first American teacher hired by George Balanchine for his School of American Ballet and she...

Everyone is familiar with the iconic window lettering that read “School of American Ballet” at the Madison Avenue location which was home...

Who was Vladimiroff? Pierre Vladimiroff was one of the original teachers at SAB, teaching 33 years from 1934-1967. He had graduated from...

“The facility that greeted the students that opening day in 1934 was a spacious one with high ceilings. Most of the classes were given in...

Today marks the 90th Anniversary of the School of American Ballet. This month I'll be sharing content about the early days of SAB and...

(50/50) We've made it! Congratulation to the dancers, musicians, artistic staff, backstage staff, and front of house staff for...