The following is a chapter from Twyla Tharp's book Push Comes to Shove : Twyla Tharp Foundation Shortly after Sue's Leg, I met with Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, co-directors of American Ballet Theatre, and their associate, Antony Tudor, in a very large, fairly intimidating, sumptuously appointed, and appropriately high-up corner office in a Chase Manhattan Bank building. Wasting no time, Miss Chase asked me to make a ballet for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Martine v

Suki Schorer. Photo by Martha Swope, 1964. Nicholas Magallanes, Suki Schorer, Gloria Govrin, Frank Ohman 1964. Photo by Erio Piccagliani...

Bart Cook and Allegra Kent in Episodes. Photo by Martha Swope. From Once a Dancer... by Allegra Kent: "When Balanchine created the part...

Gloria Govrin and Frank Ohman. Photo by Martha Swope, 1965. From -- Balanchine's Dancing Cowboy  by Frank Ohman "[Balanchine] fostered...

The following is a chapter from Merrill Ashley's autobiography Dancing for Balanchine . In this chapter she recalls the making of the...

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...