by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 10, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
On October 11, 1948, the curtain at the City Center for Music and Drama opened on New York City Ballet for the first time. The then-fledgling company performed three George Balanchine ballets: Concerto Barocco, Orpheus, and Symphony in C. Balanchine and his...
by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 10, 2021 | Onstage, The Latest
What happens when five of New York City’s largest dance companies join forces? BAAND Together Dance Festival: five-nights of outdoor performances by Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre...
by Amy Brandt | May 14, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News, The Latest
Uodated 6/11/2020: Please note that some performances have been rescheduled. New dates updated below. How many of us have hovered breathlessly over our iPads, watching grainy YouTube footage of Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Theme and Variations? Or...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Nov 4, 2018 | News, Profiles
As the Hungarian National Ballet prepares its first U.S. tour to New York City’s Lincoln Center this week amid a busy fall season in Budapest, first soloist Lili Felméry and principal dancer Gergő Ármin Balázsi have a lot on their...
by Anna Maples | Aug 5, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Vail Dance Festival Races to the Finish Line This Sunday, Vail Dance Festival wraps up an eventful few weeks jam-packed with premieres, collaborations and guests. The final...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 16, 2018 | News, Profiles
You can find Tiler Peck just about anywhere these days—onstage at New York City Ballet, in commercials, on “The Ellen Degeneres Show.” And let’s not forget starring in 2014’s Little Dancer, a musical that followed the creation of Edgar...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Jan 10, 2018 | Profiles
Ask the Paris Opéra Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet to share a stage, with each performing one act of Balanchine’s Jewels, and you might expect a degree of friendly (or less-than-friendly) competition. But as POB gave its...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 20, 2017 | Everything Nutcracker
Nutcracker season is upon us, with productions popping up in on stages in big cities and small towns around the country. But this year you can catch New York City Ballet’s famous version on the silver screen, too. Lincoln Center at the Movies and Screen Vision...