"Miss Watts danced this exuberant quirky choreography with a special slink. […] She has captured the pinup-girl tone of the choreography....

“Christopher d’Amboise and Wilhelmina Frankfurt were so extreme in their high jumps, with legs tucked under, that they seemed suspended...

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

“Ballet began when Terpsichore touched Apollo’s finger, as on the Sistine ceiling God touches Adam’s, and inspired a pas de deux in which...

Lourdes Lopez and Merrill Ashley in Concerto Barocco. Photo by Steven Caras, mid 1980s. (left) Heather Watts (R) & Sean Lavery. Photo by...

THE Donizetti grande pas de chat as shown by 5 NYCB icons. (top left) Merrill Ashley. Photo by Martha Swope, 1979. (top center) Patricia...

Of Heather Watt's solo in Walpurgisnacht, Anna Kisselgoff wrote: “There was a breathtaking instant when she seemed suspended in slow...

[35/50] "The Dewdrop is different from the flowers. For one, the flowers don’t leave the stage. They are constantly swirling around,...

Piano Pieces was choreographed by Jerome Robbins for the Tchaikovsky Festival in 1981. Prior to that, Robbins had never presented...

Unfortunately, there is not a large selection of photos of Robbins’ The Four Seasons and I had a difficult time finding ones of good...

(6/6) “I think Apollo is the best role for a male dancer that has ever been choreographed, and I think it has more in it than any dancer...

(5/6) In his 1936 autobiography, (affiliate link) Stravinsky wrote of the original 1928 decor and costumes for Apollo: “I did not see eye...

(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...

(1/6) “Ballet began when Terpsichore touched Apollo’s finger, as on the Sistine ceiling God touches Adam’s, and inspired a pas de deux in...

“I like to see bodies in movement in time and in space. And to see the relationships between them. See what happens between people...

Nutcracker number 20 of the season, featuring Heather Watts as Dewdrop and the Sugar Plum Fairy. (left) Martha Swope, 1983. Dewdrop....