Program
Classic NYCB
SEPT 23, 24, 25 mat, OCT 10
Tried and True Meets Bold and New
Ballets from Founding Choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins bookend a work from Resident Choreographer Justin Peck. Created on students at the School of American Ballet just months after its formation, Balanchine’s Serenade has since become an international mainstay, with expansive, unexpected formations in keeping with its lush Tschaikovsky score. Robbins’ Glass Pieces, also an enduringly popular work, blends traditional steps with modern movement, reflecting the shimmering score by Philip Glass. Peck’s Pulcinella Variations, with its colorful costumes inspired by commedia dell’arte characters, mixes blithe humor into a series of varied divertissements.
Ballets on this Program
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Serenade
The first ballet Balanchine choreographed in America is a romantic work of immense sweep, set to a transcendent Tschaikovsky score.
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Pulcinella Variations
Exploring NYCB’s neoclassical roots in his choreography, Peck’s Pulcinella Variations features nine dancers in a series of divertissements, dressed by Japanese fashion designer Tsumori Chisato in whimsical commedia dell’arte-inspired costumes.
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Glass Pieces
Expansive in scope and streamlined in style, Glass Pieces captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its charged, urban choreography, concluding in a finale that propels the corps de ballet across the stage at an electrifying pace.
