FROM JANUARY 23 THROUGH MARCH 3 – CONTINUING NEW YORK CITY BALLET ‘S YEAR-LONG 75th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
2024 Winter Season to Explore the Evolution of the Company’s Repertory Featuring 23 Works Created by Choreographers Closely Associated with New York City Ballet Including Landmark Works by NYCB’s Co-Founding Choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and World Premiere Ballets by NYCB Principal Dancer Tiler Peck and NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky
Following the all-Balanchine Fall Season which launched New York City Ballet ’s 75 th Anniversary Season, the Company will open its 2024 Winter Season on Tuesday, January 23 with a program of works by Jerome Robbins, the Company’s Co-Founding Choreographer. The program will consist of Robbins’ Fancy Free, created in 1944 for Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre), and two works created for NYCB: In the Night (1970) and The Four Seasons (1979).
The Winter Season, which will continue for six weeks, through Sunday, March 3, will explore the evolution of NYCB’s repertory with 23 works created by choreographers closely associated with the Company.
In addition to the all-Robbins opening night performance, the first two weeks of the winter season will include former Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto, former Resident Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, current Resident Choreographer Justin Peck’s The Times Are Racing and Rotunda, and current Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa.
The second week of the Winter Season will also feature a World Premiere choreographed by current Principal Dancer Tiler Peck, who will create her first work for NYCB. The ballet, which will premiere on Thursday, February 1, will be set to Francis Poulenc’s “Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra,” with costumes designed by Zac Posen, and lighting designed by Brandon Stirling Baker.
The second premiere of the Winter Season will be by Ratmansky, who will make his first work for NYCB since becoming the Company’s Artist in Residence in August of last year. The work, which will premiere on Thursday, February 15, will be set to music by Gustav Mahler—the Third Movement (Funeral March) from “Symphony No. 1” and the Fourth Movement (Adagietto) from “Symphony No. 5” —and will feature costumes by Moritz Junge and lighting by Mark Stanley.
The Winter Season will also feature seven works by Balanchine: Ballo della Regina, The Four Temperaments, Liebeslieder Walzer, Stars and Stripes, Symphony in Three Movements, Tarantella, and Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, and two additional works by Robbins: The Concert and Opus/19 The Dreamer.
The season will also include Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes, which premiered in January 2023 and will be performed this season with one intermission; Martins’ Hallelujah Junction, created for the Royal Danish Ballet in 2001; former Principal Dancer and Repertory Director Albert Evans’ In a Landscape, a pas de deux created in 2005; and a revival of Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals, featuring acclaimed actor Terrence Mann as the Narrator, a role created by John Lithgow for the ballet’s premiere in 2003.
NYCB’s 75 th Anniversary Season will continue during the 2024 Spring Season, from April 23 through June 2, with a further exploration of the future of the Company’s repertory with World Premiere ballets from Justin Peck and Amy Hall Garner, and additional works by Balanchine, Robbins, Justin Peck, Ratmansky, Wheeldon, Kyle Abraham, Ulysses Dove, William Forsythe, Gianna Reisen, and Pam Tanowitz.
Subscription packages and single tickets for NYCB’s 75th Anniversary Season are currently available online by phone at 212-496-0600, or in person at the David H. Koch Theater box office. All performances will take place at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, which is located at West 63 rd Street and Columbus Avenue. Programming is subject to change.
WORLD PREMIERE BALLETS
TILER PECK – Thursday, February 1, 2024
Tiler Peck’s first work for NYCB will premiere on February 1, on a program with Justin Peck’s Rotunda and Ratmansky’s Odesa. It will be set to Francis Poulenc’s “Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra,” with costumes designed by Zac Posen, and lighting designed by Brandon Stirling Baker.
ALEXEI RATMANSKY – Thursday, February 15, 2024
Alexei Ratmansky began his position as Artist in Residence at New York City Ballet in August 2023. His first work for the Company in this new role will premiere on February 15 on program with Robbins’ Opus 19/The Dreamer and Balanchine’s Symphony in Three Movements. The work will be set to music by Gustav Mahler, the Third Movement (Funeral March) from “Symphony No. 1” and the Fourth Movement (Adagietto) from “Symphony No. 5.” The ballet will feature costumes by Moritz Junge, and lighting by Mark Stanley.