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NYCB Vol 10. No. 21 - The Four Temperaments
On The Four Temperaments: “When, in the opening statements of the ballet—the first part of the Theme—we see a girl, supported on her...

Lauryn Johnson
Feb 17, 2024


NYCB Vol. 9 No. 30 - Nutcracker
(30/50) Sara Leland, Carol Sumner & Suki Schorer in Marzipan. Photo by Fred Fehl, 1960. Harry Ransom Center

Lauryn Johnson
Dec 17, 2023


NYCB Vol. 3 No. 39 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
(2/12) Here are additional photos from the original 1962 production. When Balanchine was a child, he was an elf in a production of...

Lauryn Johnson
May 20, 2022


NYCB Vol. 3 No. 24 - Apollo
(3/6) Balanchine on the idea that his ballets are abstract: “No piece of music, no dance can in itself be abstract. You hear a physical...

Lauryn Johnson
May 10, 2022


NYCB Vol. 3 No. 1 - Serenade
Tonight we begin again where it all began: Serenade, Balanchine’s first work in America (1934). With tonight’s performance of Serenade,...

Lauryn Johnson
Apr 18, 2022
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