New York City Ballet will open its 2010-2011 season at the David H. Koch Theater on Tuesday, September 14, which will also mark the beginning of the Company’s first-ever fall season at Lincoln Center.
Since relocating to Lincoln Center in 1964, NYCB has begun its performance season in November with an annual Opening Night Benefit and performances of George Balanchine’s The
Nutcracker™, followed by an eight-week Winter Repertory Season. Until 1994, NYCB also performed several weeks of repertory in November, prior to the start of the Nutcracker season, but the 2010 Fall Repertory Season will mark the first time the Company has performed at Lincoln Center during September and October, the traditional start of the cultural season in New York City.
Following the Fall Repertory Season, which runs from September 14 through October 10, NYCB will next perform its annual holiday season of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™, from November 26 through January 2, followed by the Winter Repertory Season, January 18 through February 27, and the Spring Repertory Season, May 3 through June 12.
During the course of the 2010-2011 season NYCB will perform 64 different ballets including 34 works by George Balanchine and 14 works by Jerome Robbins, NYCB’s co-founding choreographers. The season will also include seven works by NYCB’s Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins, including his full-length staging of Tschaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
Other choreographers represented during in the 2010-2011 season will include Benjamin Millepied, who will present a New York premiere during the Fall Repertory Season; acclaimed Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, who will create a new work for the Winter Repertory Season; and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, who will create a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins, featuring two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone in her New York City Ballet debut. In addition, the 2010-2011 season will also feature ballets by choreographers Melissa Barak, Mauro Bigonzetti, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon.
Fall Repertory Season – September 14 through October 10, 2010
New York City Ballet’s first-ever fall season at Lincoln Center will take place from September 14 through October 10, and will feature performances of 28 different ballets including 13 works by George Balanchine and 5 by Jerome Robbins
The fall season will be highlighted by a special Gala Performance on Thursday, October 7, which will feature the New York premiere of a new ballet by NYCB Principal Dancer Benjamin Millepied set to a commissioned score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. The October 7 Gala Performance will also feature George Balanchine’s Tarantella, Jerome Robbins’ I’m Old Fashioned, and Peter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries.
The fall season will also feature a major revival of Peter Martins’ The Magic Flute, which was created for the School of American Ballet Workshop in 1981 and first performed by NYCB in 1982. The ballet is set to a score by Riccardo Drigo and will feature new scenery designed by Tony Award-winning designer David Mitchell, who also designed the scenery for Martins’ full-length production of The Sleeping Beauty.
In addition, the fall season will include Mauro Bigonzetti’s Luce Nascosta, Benjamin Millepied’s Why am I not where you are, Alexei Ratmansky’s Namouna, A Grand Divertissement, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Estancia, which were created for NYCB’s Architecture of Dance Festival, which is currently underway at the David H. Koch Theater. The other three ballets from the festival -- Melissa Barak’s Call Me Ben, Peter Martins’ Mirage and Wayne McGregor’s Outlier -- will be performed during the 2011 Winter Repertory Season.
Winter Repertory Season – January 18 through February 27, 2011
New York City Ballet’s annual Winter Repertory Season will take place from January 18 through February 27, and will feature performances of 27 different ballets, including 12 works by George Balanchine and 5 by Jerome Robbins.
Highlighting the season will be a new ballet by Broadway choreographer and director Susan Stroman, who will create a companion piece to her 1999 work for NYCB, Blossom Got Kissed. The winner of multiple Tony Awards for her work on such Broadway shows as The Producers, Contact and Crazy for You, this will be the third work that Stroman has created for NYCB. She last worked with NYCB in 2004 when she created the full-length Double Feature.
The Winter Repertory Season will also feature seven performances of Peter Martins’ full-length staging of Swan Lake, which was created in 1996 for the Royal Danish Ballet and features sets and costumes by the acclaimed Danish painter Per Kirkeby. The season will also include 12 ballets by Balanchine, 5 by Robbins, as well as the return to repertory of such works as Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia.
Spring Repertory Season – May 3 through June 12, 2011
NYCB’s annual Spring Repertory Season will take place from May 3 through June 12, and will begin with an all Balanchine opening week of performances, May 3 through May 8, featuring 12 of Balanchine’s black and white ballets, including such classics as Agon, Episodes, Apollo, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin Concerto and Concerto Barocco.
Other highlights of the Spring Repertory Season will include a new production of The Seven Deadly Sins by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony-nominated director and choreographer, who will be creating her third work for NYCB. A sung ballet in seven scenes, The Seven Deadly Sins was composed by Kurt Weill to a libretto by Bertolt Brecht, and was first performed at the Théatre de Champs-Elysées in Paris on June 7, 1933, and was produced, directed and choreographed by Balanchine. In 1958 Balanchine revived the production for New York City Ballet.
An ironic morality play, The Seven Deadly Sins tells the story of a character named Anna, who is played by both a singer and a dancer. The new production by Taylor-Corbett will feature Patti LuPone in the role of the singer, which was performed by Lotte Lenya in Balanchine’s original 1933 production, as well as in the NYCB revival in 1958.
Other highlights of the spring season will include 17 works by Balanchine including the full-length Jewels, and 7 works by Jerome Robbins including West Side Story Suite, the choreographer’s 1995 distillation of his landmark Broadway musical.
Ticket Purchases
Subscription series packages for the 2010-2011 season, which provide savings of up to 20% off single ticket prices, are now available through the NYCB subscription office at 800-580-8730, and beginning June 15 will also be online through the NYCB website at nycballet.com. Single tickets for all 2010-2011 repertory performances will go on sale August 9 at the David H. Koch Theater box office, through Center Charge at 212-721-6500, and at nycballet.com Single tickets for George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ will go on sale in September.
All performances will take place at the David H. Koch Theater, which is located on the Lincoln Center Plaza at Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street. For general information on tickets for any New York City Ballet performances, call 212-870-5570, or visit www.nycballet.com.
Major funding for New York City Ballet is provided by:
Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation
Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation
Mary P. Oenslager Foundation Fund of the New York Community Trust
Lincoln Center Corporate Fund
Denise Sobel and Norman Keller
The Rockefeller Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Solomon
John L. and Barbara Vogelstein
The Shubert Foundation
The Ambrose Monell Foundation
Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.
The Florence Gould Foundation
Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin
Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation
LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Public support for New York City Ballet programming is provided by:
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
Major support for new work is provided by:
Members of the New Combinations Fund
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Rudolf Nureyev Fund for Emerging Choreographers:
Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation
Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation
Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation
New York City Ballet gratefully acknowledges the Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund, which provides support for new work and audience development.
New York City Ballet’s musical leadership is endowed in part by the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Fund for Musical Excellence.
The creation and performance of works by Peter Martins is funded in part by an endowment gift from the Solomon family, given in loving memory of Carolyn B. Solomon.
New York City Ballet’s performance of works by George Balanchine are supported in part by the Balanchine Production Fund, an endowment created through The Campaign for New York City Ballet.
