New York City Ballet: All Balanchine V
Thursday, October 12, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:15pm (EDT)
David H Koch Theater,
New York,
NY,
United States
$40-$218
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
—
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
(part of "Serenade")
Igor Stravinsky — Orpheus (part of "Orpheus")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55 ("IV. Tema con variazioni"; part of "Theme & Variations")
Igor Stravinsky — Orpheus (part of "Orpheus")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55 ("IV. Tema con variazioni"; part of "Theme & Variations")
Serenade marked a turning point for Balanchine. The first ballet he made in America, created on students from the just-aborning School of American Ballet, it has remained a beloved highlight of the repertory ever since, with its haunting imagery and entrancing embrace of the shimmering Tchaikovsky score for strings. Exploring again the dance potential of Greek myth after 1928's Apollo, Balanchine's celebrated, intimate collaboration with Stravinsky subsequently brought forth Orpheus. And Balanchine returned to his cherished Tchaikovsky for Theme and Variations, a dazzling display of classical ballet culminating in an elegant polonaise.
Runs Oct. 10-14.