- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The industrious Benjamin Millepied—who created the dance sequences for Darren Aronofsky’s ballet-noir film “Black Swan”—premières his latest ballet, “Plainspoken,” set to a commissioned score by David Lang, at the Oct. 7 . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The fall season will conclude with three performances of George Balanchine’s “Square Dance”—a sunny ballet with a haunting male solo at its core—and two evenings devoted to “Jewels,” a meditation on the aural worlds of . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Is Balanchine’s ballet “Jewels,” which closes out the winter season, a meditation on the contrasting beauties of three gemstones? A reflection on the musical styles of Fauré, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky? An exposition of three schools of classical dance—French . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
As the ballet world continues to feel the aftereffects of the “Black Swan” craze, New York City Ballet opens its fall season with performances of Peter Martins’s evening-length “Swan Lake,” from 1996. Romance is not his strongest . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
For sheer pleasure, one could do worse than the Sept. 23 program, consisting of Balanchine’s breathtaking “Stravinsky Violin Concerto” (1972), Alexei Ratmansky’s stylish, sexy “Namouna, a Grand Divertissement,” and Christopher Wheeldon’s rollicking gaucho ballet . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” wraps up the holiday season at the David H. Koch. (Lincoln Center. 212-870-5570. Dec. 28 at 6, Dec. 29 at 2 and 6, Dec. 30 at 2 and 8, and Dec. 31 at 2.)
AMERICAN BALLET . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
After a two-week hiatus, City Ballet gets down to the serious business of its winter repertory season, which opens with Balanchine’s “Tombeau de Couperin” (Jan. 17), a work full of luminous symmetries and courtly manners. Another highlight is the . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has something for everyone: a magical tree and leaping candy canes; an exotic, midriff-baring Arabian dance; one of the most delightful scores in ballet; and, for the aficionados, a constantly changing cast, which is announced on . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has something for everyone: a magical tree and leaping candy canes; an exotic, midriff-baring Arabian dance; one of the most delightful scores in ballet; and, for the aficionados, a constantly changing cast, which is announced on . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The company goes back to basics, with seven days of Balanchine’s “black-and-white” dances, modernist masterpieces that have come to define the style and look of twentieth-century American ballet. In “Apollo” (1928)—set, like many . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The winter season, which will be dominated by full-evening-length ballets—an anomaly for the company—gets going with Balanchine’s delightful “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” from 1962. Balanchine divided the ballet in two, with the travails . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Peter Martins’s version of “Swan Lake,” made for the Royal Danish Ballet in 1996, is both familiar and not; the outline of the story and many of the famous set pieces (the pas de deux in the forest clearing, the dance . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
A new staging of Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins,” choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, premières on May 11, at the company gala. This ballet chanté, written for the Théâtre des Champs-Élys . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Where would the City Ballet be without its “Nutcracker”? Balanchine’s 1954 staging of this holiday classic, inspired by his memories of the Kirov production he knew as a child, has been entertaining and delighting children (and their parents) for generations. It . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The company revives Peter Martins’s “Magic Flute” (1981), a story ballet based not on the Mozart opera but rather on a nineteenth-century ballet by Lev Ivanov, with music by Riccardo Drigo. Casts appear on the company’s Web . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
“Outlier,” the new ballet by Wayne McGregor, one of the hottest properties in European contemporary dance, is inspired by the monolithic, modernist vision of the architect Philip Johnson, who designed the David H. Koch Theatre. Also new this season is Benjamin Millepied’ . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
“Russian Seasons” (2006), Alexei Ratmansky’s first ballet for the company, returns to the repertory after an absence of almost four years. Set to a song cycle by Leonid Desyatnikov, the piece is made up of scenes that are loosely based . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
As the ambitious “Architecture of Dance” festival enters its second week, the company unveils the third of no fewer than seven new ballets. The British choreographer Wayne McGregor (the resident choreographer at London’s Royal Ballet), known for his highly kinetic, relentless . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The winter repertory season kicks off with a full evening of Balanchine, culminating in a performance of “The Four Temperaments,” from 1946, a striking leotard ballet in theme-and-variation form which explores the ancient idea of the four humors. The rest . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The “Architecture of Dance” festival continues with a new piece from Christopher Wheeldon, “Estancia.” It uses a lively, energetic score by the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera that was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein in 1941 for a ballet that was never staged . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
In this final week, try to catch George Balanchine’s “Square Dance,” a deceptively bubbly work that contains one of the most beautiful, searching passages ever created for a male dancer. It will be paired, on two occasions, with Benjamin Millepied . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
“The Sleeping Beauty” is perhaps the crowning jewel of the Russian Imperial ballet tradition; its score, Tchaikovsky’s second for the ballet, is considered by many to be his greatest. The famous “Rose Adagio,” in which the heroine, Aurora, plucks . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The company winds down its spring run with Balanchine’s “Jewels,” the single evening-length ballet of its season. Instead of having a plot, this triptych portrays three different worlds, each with its own style, music, and mood. “Emeralds,” . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The penultimate week of the company’s winter season is dominated by Peter Martins’s flashy, modernist “Swan Lake,” with its color-splashed sets and costumes and its stark, unresolved ending. For all its shortcomings, however, the ballet offers a . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
The second and final new ballet of the season is “The Lady with the Little Dog,” based on themes from Chekhov’s eponymous story. The choreographer, Alexey Miroshnichenko (a dancer at the Maryinsky), has chosen a score by the Russian composer Rodion . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
In this first week of the winter repertory season, the company presents ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and a dance by Alexei Ratmansky (“Concerto DSCH,” on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday). Thursday’s performance (Jan. 20) will be preceded by . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
In this first week of the winter repertory season, the company presents ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and a dance by Alexei Ratmansky (“Concerto DSCH,” on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday). Thursday’s performance (Jan. 20) will be preceded by . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Two new ballerinas step into the role of Princess Aurora in Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” Tiler Peck and Kathryn Morgan were both recently promoted—Peck to principal, Morgan to soloist—and they couldn’t be more different: Peck . . ....
