Performance Dates
CELEBRATING OUR FOUNDING CHOREOGRAPHERS, FASHION, AND NEW YORK CITY
NYCB’s 2023 Fall Gala includes two iconic works from our founding choreographers. Excerpts from Balanchine’s Who Cares?—set to Gershwin’s radiant melodies performed by special guest musicians—presents balmy and romantic duets in new costume designs by Wes Gordon for Carolina Herrera. Jerome Robbins’ vibrant Glass Pieces closes this one-time-only program, capturing the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its electrifying choreography.
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Ballets on this Program
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Who Cares?
Gershwin’s radiant melodies serve as the basis for syncopated group dances and balmy, romantic duets.
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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.
