New York City Ballet has announced its 2024-25 season, which will feature three world premieres, three company premieres, and a range of works from the company鈥檚 repertoire, all performed at Lincoln Center鈥檚 David H. Koch Theater.
The season will open September 17 with a program celebrating the company鈥檚 co-founding choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. The program will comprise Balanchine鈥檚 Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 and Duo Concertant (set to music by Stravinsky) along with Robbins鈥� Glass Pieces.
The 2024 Fall Gala performance will take place October 9, and feature a world premiere ballet by Caili Quan, set to Saint-Sa毛ns鈥� Cello Concerto No. 1. The gala will also include the company premiere of Gianna Reisen鈥檚 Signs, set to music by Philip Glass, which was originally created for the School of American Ballet Workshop in 2022. Signs will feature costumes by fashion designer Zac Posen. Posen鈥檚 designs will also be seen in the third ballet on the program, Tiler Peck鈥檚 Concerto for Two Pianos, which had its world premiere in the 2024 winter season.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Justin Peck鈥檚 appointment as NYCB Resident Choreographer, an all-Peck program will open September 24, featuring In Creases, Peck鈥檚 first ballet for the company; Solo, set to Samuel Barber鈥檚 Adagio for Strings; Partita, set to Caroline Shaw鈥檚 Pulitzer-winning Partita for 8 Voices; and Everywhere We Go, with a score by Peck鈥檚 frequent collaborator Sufjan Stevens. (Peck and Stevens鈥� collaboration is currently represented on Broadway with the dance piece Illinoise.)
Lar Lubovitch鈥檚 Each In His Own Time will have its NYCB premiere September 19. The piece was originally created for NYCB Principal Dancers Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon, and premiered at City Center鈥檚 Fall For Dance Festival in 2021. Each In His Own Time is set to selections by Brahms, performed by an onstage pianist.
The fall season will also include the first of four full-length ballets in the season, a revival of Delibes鈥� 颁辞辫辫茅濒颈补, marking the 50th anniversary of Balanchine鈥檚 1974 staging. Created in collaboration with Alexandra Danilova, the production is based on Petipa鈥檚 staging for the Imperial Ballet. Based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, 颁辞辫辫茅濒颈补 tells the story of a village youth, Franz, who falls in love with a girl named 颁辞辫辫茅濒颈补, not realizing that she is, in fact, a remarkably lifelike automaton. In a moment of cross-plaza synergy, NYCB鈥檚 run of 颁辞辫辫茅濒颈补 will overlap (The Tales of Hoffman) which includes an act based on the same story.
November 29 through January 5, the company will present its annual engagement of George Balanchine鈥檚 The Nutcracker. The holiday classic features over 100 dancers, musicians, and students from the School of American Ballet.
The winter season will begin January 21 with an all-Balanchine program, featuring Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, set, respectively, to music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms as orchestrated by Schoenberg. This will be followed by an all-Stravinsky program featuring three more works by Balanchine: Danses Concertantes, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, and Variations for Orchestra, the latter of which was Balanchine鈥檚 final ballet. The all-Stravinsky program will also include Jerome Robbins鈥� The Cage.
The winter season will include two world premieres, from Resident Choreographer Justin Peck, and NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky. The Peck piece will premiere January 29, and have a commissioned score by Dan Deacon, whose music was previously featured in Peck鈥檚 The Times Are Racing. The Ratmansky world premiere will open February 6, and be set to selections by L茅on Minkus from Petipa鈥檚 full-length ballet Paquita. This will be Ratmansky鈥檚 eighth work for the company, and second since becoming Artist in Residence in the 2023-24 season.
Peter Martins鈥� 1999 staging of Tchaikovsky鈥檚 Swan Lake returns to the stage February 19. Martins鈥� staging is based on the iconic choreography of Petipa and Ivanov, as well as Balanchine鈥檚 one-act version which is also part of the company鈥檚 repertory. Although originally a flop, Swan Lake鈥檚 reputation was rehabilitated after the composer鈥檚 death, and it has since become one of the most famous ballets in the canon. It tells the story of a princess, Odette, who has been transformed into a swan as the result of a sorcerer鈥檚 curse.
The spring season will open April 22 with another all-Balanchine program, this one featuring Apollo, Balanchine鈥檚 first collaboration with Stravinsky; Ballo della Regina, Balanchine鈥檚 version of the ballet scene from Verdi鈥檚 opera Don Carlos; Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, set to a selection from Swan Lake; and Chaconne, based on selections from Gluck鈥檚 opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
A Spring Gala performance May 8 will feature Balanchine鈥檚 Vienna Waltzes, set to Viennese waltzes by Johann Strauss II and Franz Leh谩r, as well as selections from the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. The five-part ballet features nearly 60 dancers, and spans a range of settings, from a moonlit forest to a mirrored ballroom.
The stage premiere of Kyle Abraham鈥檚 When We Fell will take place May 16. Set to piano works by Nico Muhly, Morton Feldman, and Jason Moran, When We Fell was originally created as a dance film in 2021, as part of the company鈥檚 2020-21 digital season during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A special one-night performance May 25 will celebrate NYCB Principal Dancer Andrew Veyette, who says farewell to the company after 25 years. Veyette鈥檚 farewell performance will include a movement from Robbins鈥� Glass Pieces, Lynne Taylor-Corbett鈥檚 Chiaroscuro, and Balanchine鈥檚 Stars and Stripes.
The 2024-25 season will conclude as the 2023-24 season does, with a revival of Balanchine鈥檚 A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream. The full-length two-act ballet based on Shakespeare鈥檚 comedy is set to the music of Mendelssohn.
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