TRADITION AND INNOVATION  

New York City Ballet maintains the excellence of its historical masterpieces while introducing new choreography. A fervent American music enthusiast, Peter Martins turns to a score by John Adams this winter, his ninth collaboration with the famed Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. Mirroring Gershwin's brassy melodies, Balanchine's big city ballet Who Cares? has been an audience favorite since its premiere, full of jazzy, syncopated rhythms and balmy, romantic duets.

January 5, 9, 14
                    

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 4, 9, 15

Theme Series: Balanchine/Robbins

Create-Your-Own
 

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM 

This enchanting production brings to life Shakespeare's tale of merry romance, mischievous make-believe, and mistaken identity. With luscious sets and costumes and a cast of over 100 dancers and students from the School of American Ballet, this classic story of a fairy kingdom and the humans that enter it is simply not to be missed.

January 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
        

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 1, 3, 5, 8, 16, 17

Theme Series: Balanchine/Robbins

Create-Your-Own
 

ROMEO + JULIET 

Contemporary and streamlined, intense and powerful, Romeo + Juliet features Prokofiev’s masterful score and striking designs by world-renowned Danish painter Per Kirkeby. The palpable innocence and youthful promise of its young protagonists are the ballet’s breaking heart, laying bare the crushing forces at work in the most famous romantic tragedy of all time.

January 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11

Theme Series: Re-Envisioned Classics

Create-Your-Own
 

SHORT STORIES

With a focus on vibrant stage designs, dramatic characters, and compelling narratives, this program offers three one-act story ballets. Precursor to Broadway and the silver screen’s On the Town, Fancy Free presents three sailors and their ruckus escapades on shore leave in Manhattan. Balanchine's groundbreaking retelling of the Prodigal Son parable swells with powerful characterizations as a beguiling Siren lures a capricious young man down a trail of loss and forgiveness. Lavishly dressed in Marc Chagall’s exquisite sets and costumes, Firebird illustrates an enchanting Russian fairytale and the creatures that inhabit its strange world.

January 16, 19, 24
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 10, 12, 15

Theme Series: Balanchine/Robbins

Create-Your-Own
 

ALL RUSSIAN 

Russian composers and choreographers have long inspired the ballet stage with their mastery of music and movement. The apex of the Stravinsky/Balanchine collaboration, Agon is an electric masterpiece, ever contemporary in its athletic competitiveness. The Kirov Ballet’s Alexey Miroshnichenko introduces a new story to NYCB to a composition by Rodion Shchedrin titled Lady with a Lapdog. A spectacular exhibition featuring both Hungarian czardas and a regal court of ballerinas and cavaliers, Cortège Hongrois develops from a folk-stylized processional to a grand pas de deux in the classical tradition.

January 20, 23, February 9
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS 
Standard Series 1, 8, 16

Theme Series: New Works

Create-Your-Own
 

BALANCHINE'S BIRTHDAY 

In honor of Founder George Balanchine's birth, this special, one-time-only program features music from three countries that influenced him greatly. The winter's only performance of Balanchine's Walpurgisnacht Ballet, features a passionate score from France's Charles Gounod.  To create his latest, Peter Martins' turns to longtime collaborator and respected American composer John Adams. The evening also includes an encore performance of the season's second premiere, Miroshnichenko's narrative work based on a Russian score by Rodion Shchedrin.

January 22
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 5

Theme Series: En Pointe

Create-Your-Own
 

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 

A cornerstone of the ballet repertory, this charming fairytale is also one of the grandest spectacles of classical dance. Martins’ streamlined story focuses the audience’s attention on sensational choreography, combined with Tschaikovsky's glorious score, lavish sets and costumes, and a cast of fanciful characters.

January 27 - February 7    
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17

Theme Series: Tschaikovsky Trio

Create-Your-Own
 

SWAN LAKE 

Peter Martins’ bold and provocative full-length staging of Swan Lake features Tschaikovsky’s timeless score with turbulent, abstract designs by Per Kirkeby, echoing the conflict in this most famous of psychological dramas. No ordinary fairytale, The New York Times has called this stunning production “the talk of the town.”

February 10 - 14    
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12

Theme Series: Tschaikovsky Trio, En Pointe, Re-Envisioned Classics

Create-Your-Own
 

ALL BALANCHINE 

This program highlights Balanchine’s mastery of the classical ballet idiom with two thematically contrasting works. The four couples of Liebeslieder Walzer take the waltz to extraordinary heights in a rapturous evening of romance set in an elegant ballroom. A sparkling display of ballet technique, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 is Balanchine's tribute to his Imperial Russian heritage.

February 16, 17, 19, 20
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 1, 5, 9, 15

Create-Your-Own
 

ALL ROBBINS 

Admired on both the ballet and Broadway stage, Jerome Robbins excelled at creating profound drama in his works. One of his most popular masterpieces, Dances at a Gathering distills the spectrum of human relations into the most natural of movements, endlessly spontaneous in their representation of community. A modern love story based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story Suite brings audiences to the feuding streets of 1950s New York City with its crackling energy and heart-rending poignancy.

February 18, 20, 21, 23, 24
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 2, 3, 8, 11, 16

Theme Series: Balanchine/Robbins

Create-Your-Own
 

JEWELS 

Inspired by a visit to Van Cleef & Arpels, Balanchine distills the brilliant facets of precious stones into a grand pyrotechnic display. Emeralds moves at Fauré's mesmerizing pace, while Rubies races like lightning through Stravinsky's jazz-inflected capriccio. With its symphonic Tschaikovsky score, Diamonds venerates the regality of Balanchine’s classical heritage.

February 25 - 28
                   

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Standard Series 4, 6, 7, 10, 12

Create-Your-Own