I found photos of Eddie and Violette performing Tschai Pas at Jacob's Pillow in 1963. As it turns out, Eddie tells an anecdote about this...

Today's matinee features Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux which Balanchine began choreographing for Diana Adams and Jacques d’Amboise. However,...

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

“Allegro Brillante, which began as a last-minute replacement for a canceled work, remains in the repertory after 20 [now 66] years. […]...

Although Serenade’s meaning has been subject to endless speculation since it was created 87 years ago—Mr. B himself even giving...

Two Serenade moments to share with you today. Descriptions come from Toni Bentley's book Serenade: A Balanchine Story Susan Hendl, Kay...

Here are 5 of Balanchine’s Waltz Girls in the same arabesque. So interesting to see how the same choreography can still be so different....

Tonight we begin again where it all began: Serenade, Balanchine’s first work in America (1934). With tonight’s performance of Serenade,...

(10/10) Lincoln Kirstein told New York Times in 1986, “Our Swan Lake has never been traditional, anyway. Balanchine created it as an...

(9/10) A lot of people say Balanchine’s one-act Swan Lake is cold and stripped of emotion. Although many story elements are absent I...

(8/10) Between Martha’s wonderful captures, Balanchine’s choreography, and the the beauty of the dancers—whittling thousands of photos...

(6/10) I really love picture 4, the diagonal energy that begins in Andre’s back foot and extends all the way through Patty’s arabesque...

(6/10) Darci Kistler danced Odette in Balanchine’s Swan Lake for her SAB workshop performance in 1980 at 15 years old. At 16 she debuted...

(5/10) “Violette communicates the plight of this Odette through daringly held poses that impress a state of feeling upon the viewer...

Today is the 4th out of 10 Swan Lake performances this season. (bottom left) Melissa Hayden & Jacques d’Amboise. Martha Swope, 1967....

(2/10) When Balanchine mounted his own one-act production of Swan Lake in 1951, New York Times critic John Martin was “bewildered” by the...

(3/10) “[Allegra’s potrayal] is poetic in the extreme and wonderfully musical […] Surely here is one of the loveliest of Odettes.”—John...

(1/10) Today begins NYCB’s run of 12 Swan Lake performances. Balanchine’s version (rather than Martins’) is being mounted for the first...

Today marks the original closing date for NYCB’s Nutcracker season this year. It was too depressing to keep up my posts during all the...

Today’s Christmas Eve performance would have been show 35. Here are some pictures of the gorgeous Diana Adams (left & Right) Frederick...