🩰✨ "You'll be amazed by the New York City Ballet's performance of George Balanchine's Serenade, set to the music of Tchaikovsky. It's the first work by the composer to be created by the co-founder of the New York City Ballet when he arrived in America in 1934. 🩰✨ https://bit.ly/4dGapKH | medici.tv

Get to know a little more about our founder George Balanchine every Friday with Balanchine Basics. This week, we focus on the enormous breadth of ballets that he created in his lifetime: some 465 works, ranging from the plotless black & white ballet Agon to the full-length story ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “The word choreographer is too fancy for what I do,” he once said. “Dance supplier is better. Dance does not exist unless someone provides it.” | New York City Ballet

George Balanchine's Diamonds brings the lush opulence of classical elegance to life. Don't miss Diamonds when it returns to our stage this winter on the Masters at Work III program: nycballet.com/mastersatwork3 Featuring Sara Mearns and former Principal Dancer Russell Janzen | New York City Ballet

George Balanchine's Sonatine premiered nearly 50 years ago on opening night of NYCB's 1975 Ravel Festival. In his review for The New York Times, Clive Barnes remarked, "The high point of the evening came during the intermission when the French Ambassador, Jacques Kosciusko‐Morizet, standing in front of the closed curtain, presented the Order of the Legion of Honor to George Balanchine, artistic director of the New York City Ballet." Experience this rare gem of a pas de deux, complete with an ons

George Balanchine, chorégraphe majeur du XXe siècle, est à l'honneur avec 3 de ses ballets... Découvrez toute la saison chorégraphique. | Opéra national de Paris