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

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

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

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

(32/50) "Upon this costume of so little visible substance, Karinska dripped rhinestone dewdrops around the neck and hip. And with the...

(27/50) Patricia McBride and Edward Villella in the Nutcracker Pas de Deux. This was filmed in the August of 1969 at Jacob's Pillow. Stay...

(18/50) A very young Gelsey Kirkland as an angel, a party child, and a Polichinelle! (top Upstage center. Fred Fehl, 1963. Upstage, last...

(14/50) “I can remember very well,” Ms. Tallchief says, “standing downstage on opening night toward the end of the first act, before I...

(9/50) The skirt of the tutu [for Dewdrop] has taken on various lengths over the years, depending on the individual ballerina's physique....

“Out of the darkness a beautiful young girl in white appears aloft, carried by a team of four men and a shadowy fifth precedes the...

Suzanne Farrell on Concerto Barocco: "It is a simple ballet, but one of profoundly spiritual origins and intentions. Dancing it, one’s...

Violette Verdy's thoughts on Firebird: “What I love about Firebird is the quality of entombed independence of that bird who has a...

On Scotch Symphony Allegra Kent said, "There were theories—I was too sylphlike, not sylphlike enough; I was really a sylph, I was a girl...

I found photos of Eddie and Violette performing Tschai Pas at Jacob's Pillow in 1963. As it turns out, Eddie tells an anecdote about this...

Tonight NYCB's season opens with 3 ballets, one of which being Balanchine's Scotch Symphony. The ballet originally featured Maria...

Although Serenade’s meaning has been subject to endless speculation since it was created 87 years ago—Mr. B himself even giving...

(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...

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

Seven years ago I had never heard of New York City Ballet. 7 years ago I had the chance to see a working rehearsal of Robbins’ The...