Balanchine ballets are a bit like living history. Our dancers are guided through the elegance and every shimmering detail of Diamonds with the support of Balanchine Repetiteur Sandra Jennings. (🎥: Jasmine Jimison and Wei Wang in Balanchine's Diamonds) | San Francisco Ballet

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All Balanchine, the performance with three dramatically different ballets in one incredible evening will be performed May 11-14 at Symphony Hall. Get your tickets now at http://balletaz.org/performance/all-balanchine-2017/ | Ballet Arizona

Gia Kourlas for The New York Times highlights George Balanchine's Serenade in a recent feature on the importance of hands in dance choreography. “Mr. B taught us to lift the wrist, which is a sign of life and energy as the palm faces down and the hand extends. If the hand just drops it risks looking lifeless,” writes Suki Schorer in her Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique. Explore the subtleties in the full feature: nytimes.com/2025/08/14/arts/dance-hands-choreography-video.html?unlocked_articl

The third and final section of George Balanchine’s Jewels, Diamonds, is a spectacle that reflects the classical Russian style that Balanchine was originally trained in while studying at the Mariinsky Theatre as a boy. Suzanne Farrell and Jacques d’Amboise, who regularly performed together, originated the leading roles in the glistening section. Diamonds is set to Tschaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29, which he composed in 1875 right before creating the iconic score for Swan Lake. Diam

George Balanchine, who famously choreographed multiple ballets to composer Igor Stravinsky’s scores, once said: “I like Stravinsky's music. It is so strict, so solid. It never comes apart. You cannot improvise upon it. It's built like mathematics.” See three of his ballets set to Stravinsky's music: Apollo, Orpheus, and Agon (seen here) on the Stravinsky & Balanchine program, JAN 22, 24, 26 eve & FEB 1, 2 mat: nycballet.com/stravinsky | New York City Ballet

On MAR 11 at 8 PM we begin streaming the final ballet in THREE SIDES OF BALANCHINE, Stravinsky Violin Concerto. Representing Balanchine's signature neoclassical style and set to an Igor Stravinsky score, this 1972 masterwork is an exemplar of their landmark 20th-century collaboration. Catch the accompanying Inside NYCB presentation on MAR 9 at 8 PM. Both are available to view through MAR 18. | New York City Ballet