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Agon

Music
Igor Stravinsky
Choreography
George Balanchine

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The apex of Balanchine’s collaborations with Igor Stravinsky, Agon is an intense masterpiece and signature NYCB work, ever contemporary in its athletic competitiveness.

The Agon pieces were all modeled after examples in a French dance manual of the mid-17th Century. Agon ("The Contest") is not a mythical subject piece to complete a trilogy with Apollo and Orpheus. In fact, it has no musical or choreographic subject beyond the new interpretation of the venerable dances that are its pretext. It was even conceived without provision for scenery and was independent, at least in Stravinsky’s mind, of décor, period, and style.

25 minutes

© 2015 Paul Kolnik

© 2019 Paul Kolnik

© 2022 Erin Baiano

© 2019 Paul Kolnik

Anatomy of a Dance

Maria Kowroski on Balanchine’s AGON

Maria Kowroski discusses how this Balanchine classic is, at its root, the story of a relationship. Agon translates as “contest” in Greek, and the ballet’s central pas de deux is a back-and-forth conversation between a couple, manifested in physical form.

Inside the repertory

Megan LeCrone on Balanchine's AGON

Megan LeCrone talks about her special relationship with George Balanchine's Agon and why the ballet is still as radical today as it was in 1957.

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