“Forseeable Future”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, NY
October 9, 2025
Jamar Roberts is an American modern dance choreographer, associated most often with Alvin Ailey and his new work for City Ballet, entitled “Forseeable Future” is entirely true to that tradition. It’s a theater piece by a ballet company and in no way dependent on classical dance. Neither too bad nor too good, not unpleasant to watch, physically broad in
“Polyphonia,” “Bright,” “Opus 19/The Dreamer,” “Voices”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
January 30, 2020
The premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Voices” on Thursday aptly illustrated the Balanchine aphorism (“There are no new steps, only new combinations”) that New York City Ballet employs as the motto of its annual winter New Combinations evening. Highly classical in it steps but unexpected in its mise-en-scène and conception, “Voices” proved a refreshing bit of nonsensical dance,
“Jewels”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
September 17, 2019
In “Diamonds,” at the New York City Ballet's fall opening performance of “Jewels”, Maria Kowroski was how you’d like to remember her. Not that she’s going anywhere. But by now the company’s senior dancer (she joined NYCB in 1995), she, along with her partner Tyler Angle, rescued opening night from lackluster performances of “Emeralds” and “Rubies” and made you forget about
“Jane Eyre”
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
New York, New York
June 4, 2019
Cathy Marston’s expressionist ballet based on Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” got its first performance at American Ballet Theatre Tuesday night. Originally produced in 2016 in Doncaster, England by the Northern Ballet, this was its U.S. premiere. With an excellent score by Philip Feeney and scenery by Patrick Kinmonth (who also designed the costumes) the ballet’s twelve scenes over two acts were
“Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet,” “Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
May 15, 2019
The return of “Brahms-Schoenberg” to the stage was a highlight of the still unfinished season at New York City Ballet this week. The ensemble ballet of all ensemble ballets, the first work Balanchine made for at Lincoln Center after the company moved from City Center, showed Balanchine reveling in the space afforded by the larger stage with gorgeously elaborate
“Bright,” “Bartók Ballet,” “Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3”
New York City Ballet
Spring Gala
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
May 2, 2019
Positive sentiments were very much in evidence when New York City Ballet’s new co-directors Wendy Whelan and Jonathan Stafford opened their first gala with remarks about their dedication to the institution that had nurtured them and to its core values: on the one hand preserving the company’s incomparable Balanchine/Robbins repertory and on the
“Sleeping Beauty”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
February 21, 2019
“Sleeping Beauty” is many things to a ballet lover. One of Tchaikovsky’s greatest scores, the ballet laid the foundation for the post-World War II ballet boom when Ashton’s staging for the Royal Ballet, starring Margot Fonteyn, took the Euro-American stages by storm with its Rose Adagio and famous balances. But first and foremost, the debut of young Indiana Woodward as Princess
“Sleeping Beauty”
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
New York, New York
February 13, 2019
Nearly 15 months after Peter Martins’ resignation from New York City Ballet, where an interim artistic team continues to run things during the search for his successor, his elaborate production of “The Sleeping Beauty” went back on stage Wednesday night for the first of fourteen performances. Yet with a full house and Martins himself in the audience, the opening night was anything but
“Scotch Symphony,” “Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux,” “Divertissement Pas de Deux from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’” “The Four Temperaments”
San Francisco Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Joffrey Ballet
Balanchine, The City Center Years
New York City Center
November 2, 2018
City Center’s 75th anniversary celebration of Balanchine ballets was a rare example in today’s arts world – routinely long on hype and short on substance – of a festival that focused on a worthy subject and actually delivered.