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

“'I have a bit of Vienna in my bloodstream,’ Mr. Balanchine said in an interview during a lighting rehearsal some days ago. ‘I’m from the...

"George Balanchine’s Vienna Waltzes  was given for the first time this season, in one of its very best performances, Tuesday night by the...

Merrill Ashley in Ballo della Regina. Photo by Martha Swope. “There was George Balanchine’s Ballo Della Regina,  a 1978 work set to...

Rhonda Sampson, Sheniqua Nolan, Yvonne Hall, Roslyn Sampson, Joseph Wyatt, and Lydia Abarca [5/7] This week @dancetheatreofharlem ...

This footage is from a 1970 TV Special “Ballet with Edward Villella” and shows he and Patricia McBride rehearsing Tschaikovksy Pas de...

"George had been serious when he told me the ballet would be difficult. He had me doing everything – turns, balances, jumps, and...

Maria Tallchief and Francisco Moncion. Photo by Martha Swope. New York Public Library “It was Maria Tallchief’s performance in...

In this episode we speak with author and dance researcher Nancy Reynolds on her lifetime of work preserving the work of George...

Photo by Martha Swope [44/50] Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear...

Photo by Martha Swope [39/50] Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear...

Photo by Martha Swope Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear about...

[25/50] Counting down 50 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Sandra Jennings...

[14/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Kim Kokich who...

[11/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Suzy Pilarre, a...

[9/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Today we hear from Diana White, who...

Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Continuing from Maria Calegari’s stories...

[2/52] Counting down 52 NYCB Nutcrackers this year with stories from NYCB dancers past and present! Our next story come from former...

In this week’s episode of Immortal Icons of Dance we focus on the legendary photographer of ballet and Broadway, Martha Swope, who helped...

Robert Maiorano wrote a book Balanchine’s Mozartiana: The Making of a Masterpiece in which he documented just that—the making of this...