I first saw Four Seasons during the Robbins 100 Festival in 2018. I have two favorite parts of this ballet, and the moment in the first...

Earlier, I shared that one of my favorite parts in this ballet is the 4 men in Spring. My other favorite part is the role of the Autumnal...

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...

“I don’t see why some people are so shocked by ‘The Cage’. If you observe closely you must realize that it is actually not more than the...

(1/2) For the 1972 Stravinsky Festival, Balanchine and Robbins co-choreographed a production of Pulcinella which was admittedly...

This season, Justin Peck’s Scherzo Fantastique is on stage, but 50 years ago Robbins choreographed to the same Stravinsky score. I...

Stravinsky’s Circus Polka had originally been composed in 1942 for the “Ballet of Elephants” that Balanchine choreographed for the circus...

(4/4) Today is for the men of Afternoon of a Faun. Eddie Villella shared in his autobiography: “I learned that I had actually been...

(3/4) Another moment in the genesis of the ballet came one day when Robbins watched dancers rehearsing the Swan Lake adagio and was...

(2/4) The original cast of Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun was Tanaquil LeClercq and Francisco Moncion. In an interview with Nancy Reynolds,...

Afternoon of a Faun: What’s not to love? The swooning music, the dreamy atmosphere, Robbins’ inspired choreography. Edward Villella and...

(1/4) The beauty of these photos gives me chills. Jerome Robbins working with two casts of dancers on Afternoon of a Faun in 1964. Edward...

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

By now, you know that I find the lineage of dance so important to study and honor. Dance is not a skill that can be learned by reading a...

Yesterday I featured many Serenade women… Today is for the men of Goldberg Variations. In 1974, Robbins wrote: “Last Friday I saw...

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

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