(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...

Duo Concertant was choreographed by Balanchine in 1972 for the Stravinsky Festival and it contains 5 movements. “To the first movement,...

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

“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...

Tonight, Tiler Peck and Joseph Gordon will dance the Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée, originally danced by Patricia McBride and...

Tallchief recalls that Balanchine and Stravinsky worked “side by side in the rehearsal studio. Ordinarily, when George was...

(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...

Today I’m sharing some breathtaking photos of the original cast of Stravinsky Violin Concerto and I am struck by not just the beauty and...

(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...

As Tallchief remembered from her stage vantage: “A firestorm of applause erupted in the City Center, and the audience was on its feet...

Today the Stravinsky Festival opens, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1972 festival. Before the curtain came up, Balanchine took...

Just a Misha/Rubies appreciation post. After performing at the White House for President Carter, the president asked Misha how he would...

Rubies is on the program tonight so let’s talk about the premiere in 1967! Did you know that Jewels was so successful when it premiered...