“Beginner Ballet Barre Basics | Learn Balanchine At Home | Guided Pliés | Lessons with Lisa” Welcome to Balanchine technique! This is a guided barre for beginning level ballet students of all ages! In this class, we learn more about pliés, and how to add them to a step with music and with one arm at the barre. Feel free to follow along as we apply what we’ve learned to music. This is also great for intermediate dancers focused on pivoting to Balanchine technique, or dancers who are returning fro

Described as "an adorable confection, concocted of marzipan, diamonds, youth, and nostalgia," Balanchine's Raymonda Variations hearkens back to the choreographer's youth in Russia, with its Glazunov score and classical technique. This past fall, Soloist Sara Adams performed the first pink-tutu-ed solo. #nycbwell #nycbdancebreak | New York City Ballet

George Balanchine once said, “Ballet is important and significant, yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.” With this in mind, he created myriad works of all shapes and sizes. Raymonda Variations, Balanchine’s 1961 interpretation of a section of the Petipa ballet, shows a sweeter, more charming side of our founding choreographer’s style. The ballet, here performed by Erica Pereira leading the ballet's corps and soloists, returns this fall. | New York City Ballet

Allegro Brillante dazzles with its intricate choreography, which Balanchine once said “contains everything I know about the classical ballet – in thirteen minutes”. See it on All Balanchine, JAN 22 through 29. | New York City Ballet

ABCs of NYCB: Spooky Edition! V is for Valse Fantaisie, the Balanchine ballet set to Mikhail Glinka's eponymous score, nicknamed the Melancholy Waltz. Though plotless, its swooning music and nonstop, whirling movement lend themselves to a suspenseful, delirious tenor. Inspired by The School of American Ballet's list of spooky ballets, we compiled selections from scores in our repertory with slightly macabre vibes, including some pieces you may have heard during the Digital Fall. Set the tone wit