“Jerome Robbins’ new ballet, Goldberg Variations, is a work of such amplitude and grandeur that it can make you fall in love with the...

Tonight we begin again where it all began: Serenade, Balanchine’s first work in America (1934). With tonight’s performance of Serenade,...

Balanchine was known for his elaborate Easter dinners which took him days to prepare. Although he celebrated Orthodox Easter which is...

The ballet Prodigal Son was originally choreographed by Balanchine in 1929 for the Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. The composer, Prokofiev,...

Tonight is the first night of the Short Stories program! Featured in this post is the NYCB premiere of Slaughter on Tenth Avenue with...

(10/10) Lincoln Kirstein told New York Times in 1986, “Our Swan Lake has never been traditional, anyway. Balanchine created it as an...

(9/10) A lot of people say Balanchine’s one-act Swan Lake is cold and stripped of emotion. Although many story elements are absent I...

(8/10) Between Martha’s wonderful captures, Balanchine’s choreography, and the the beauty of the dancers—whittling thousands of photos...

(6/10) I really love picture 4, the diagonal energy that begins in Andre’s back foot and extends all the way through Patty’s arabesque...

(6/10) Darci Kistler danced Odette in Balanchine’s Swan Lake for her SAB workshop performance in 1980 at 15 years old. At 16 she debuted...

(5/10) “Violette communicates the plight of this Odette through daringly held poses that impress a state of feeling upon the viewer...

Today is the 4th out of 10 Swan Lake performances this season. (bottom left) Melissa Hayden & Jacques d’Amboise. Martha Swope, 1967....

(2/10) When Balanchine mounted his own one-act production of Swan Lake in 1951, New York Times critic John Martin was “bewildered” by the...

(3/10) “[Allegra’s potrayal] is poetic in the extreme and wonderfully musical […] Surely here is one of the loveliest of Odettes.”—John...

(1/10) Today begins NYCB’s run of 12 Swan Lake performances. Balanchine’s version (rather than Martins’) is being mounted for the first...

Last La Valse of the season. The camera sure loves Tanny. I’m mesmerized by these photos. Which is your favorite? (above) Tanaquil...

Did you know, the “silent” ballet, Moves (danced to the sound of slaps, claps, stomps, and steps) used to have a subtitle? It was Moves:...

Just a Misha/Rubies appreciation post. After performing at the White House for President Carter, the president asked Misha how he would...

This afternoon, Walpurgisnacht is on. Walpurgisnacht is a ballet set to music from the opera “Faust”. The Balanchine Trust’s website says...

As Mozartiana is onstage again tonight, I wanted to share some pictures of the men from the original and 2nd casts. Victor Castelli, the...