Repertoire

A

A Farewell to Music (2002)
Company Premiere: October 23, 2002
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography by Anthony Morgan

Afternoon of a Faun (1953)
Company Premiere: September 27, 2001
Music by Claude Debussy
Choreography by Jerome Robbins

Agon (1957)
Company Premiere: October 3, 2009
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also excerpted and performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

Apollo (1928)
Company Premiere: September 27, 2001
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also excerpted and performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

B

"The Balanchine Couple" (2003)
Company Premiere: December 5, 2003
A full evening event which includes nine
Balanchine pas de deux and onstage narration
by Artistic Director, Suzanne Farrell

Ballade (1980)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: November 23, 2007
Music by Gabriel Faure
Choreography by George Balanchine

Bugaku (1963)
Company Premiere: November 20, 2007
Music by Toshiro Mayuzumi
Choreography by George Balanchine

Fourth Movement of Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (1966)
Company Premiere: November 23, 2007
Music by Johannes Brahms
Choreography by George Balanchine

C

Chaconne (1976)
Company Premiere: October 25, 2002
Music by Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also excerpted and performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

Contrapuntal Blues pas de deux from Clarinade (1964)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: November 22, 2005
Music by Morton Gould
Choreography by George Balanchine

Adagio from Concierto de Mozart (1942)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: June 6, 2007
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography by George Balanchine

D

Divertimento Brillante (1967)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Please see listing under Glinkiana.

Divertimento No. 15 (1956)
Company Premiere: September 15, 2000
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography by George Balanchine

Balanchine's Don Quixote (1965)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: June 22, 2005
(Pas de Deux Mauresque premiered December 5, 2003)
Music by Nicolas Nabokov
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also excerpted and performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

Donizetti Variations (1960)
Company Premiere: March 5, 2010
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Choreography by George Balanchine

Duo Concertant (1972)
Company Premiere: September 28, 2001
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Pas Classique Espagnol from Balanchine's Don Quixote (1972)
Please see listing under Pas Classique Espagnol

Pas de Mauresque from Balanchine's Don Quixote (1965)
Please see listing under Pas de Mauresque

E

Eight by Adler (1984)
Company Premiere: November 19, 2010
Music by Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, and Robert Allen
Music Arrangement by Richard Adler; Orchestration by Dick Lieb
Choreography by Paul Mejia

Episodes (1959)
Company Premiere: October 8, 2008
Music by Anton Webern and J.S. Bach
Choreography by George Balanchine

G

Divertimento Brillante pas de deux from Glinkiana (1967)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: June 8, 2007
Music by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Choreography by George Balanchine

H

Haieff Divertimento (1947)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: March 3, 2010
Music by Alexei Haieff
Choreography by George Balanchine

I

In Memory of… (1985)
Company Premiere: November 17, 2010
Music by Alban Berg
Choreography by Jerome Robbins

"The Unanswered Question" from Ivesiana (1954)
Company Premiere: December 5, 2003
Music by Charles Ives
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

J

Diamonds Pas de Deux from Jewels (1967)
Company Premiere: October 10, 2008
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

L

La Sonnambula (1946)
Company Premiere: September 28, 2001
Music by Vittorio Rieti
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also excerpted and performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

La Source (1968)
Company Premiere: November 22, 2005
Music by Léo Delibes
Choreography by George Balanchine

La Valse (1951)
Company Premiere: November 22, 2005
(Pas de Deux premiered December 5, 2003)
Music by Maurice Ravel
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also excerpted and performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

Liebeslieder Walzer (1960)
Company Premiere: October 8, 2008
Music by Johannes Brahms
Choreography by George Balanchine

M

Meditation (1963)
Company Premiere: December 5, 2003
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II pas de deux (1962)
Company Premiere: March 3, 2010
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Choreography by George Balanchine

Monumentum Pro Gesualdo (1960)
Company Premiere: September 28, 2001
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963)
Company Premiere: September 28, 2001
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Mozartiana (1933)
Company Premiere: October 18, 2003
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

P

Pas Classique Espagnol from Balanchine's Don Quixote (1972)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: November 20, 2007
Music by Nicolas Nabokov
Choreography by George Balanchine

Pas de Mauresque from Balanchine's Don Quixote (1965)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: December 5, 2003
Music by Nicolas Nabokov
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

Pithoprakta (1968)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: November 23, 2007
Music by Iannis Xenakis
Choreography by George Balanchine

R

Ragtime (1966)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: October 8, 2008
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Raymonda Variations (1961)
Company Premiere: October 23, 2002
Music by Alexander Glazunov
Choreography by George Balanchine

Scene d'amour from Romeo and Juliet (1966)
Company Premiere: June 6, 2007
Music by Hector Berlioz
Choreography by Maurice Béjart

S

Scotch Symphony (1952)
Company Premiere: September 27, 2001
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Choreography by George Balanchine

Serenade (1935)
Company Premiere: October 18, 2003
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1968)
Company Premiere: September 28, 2001
Music by Richard Rodgers, arr. Kay (from the musical On Your Toes, composed in 1936)
Choreography by George Balanchine

Sonate No. 5 (1970)
Company Premiere: November 17, 2010
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography by Maurice Béjart

Stars and Stripes (1958)
Company Premiere: December 5, 2005
Music by John Philip Sousa
Choreography by George Balanchine
This ballet is also performed as part of "The Balanchine Couple."

T

Tempo di Valse from The Nutcracker (1954)
Company Premiere: October 18, 2003
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (1960)
Company Premiere: October 18, 2003
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

Tzigane (1975)
Company Premiere: October 22, 1999
Music by Maurice Ravel
Choreography by George Balanchine

V

Variations for Orchestra (1982)
A Balanchine Preservation Initiative Ballet
Company Premiere: February 16, 2001
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

W

Who Cares? (1970)
Company Premiere: October 23, 2002
Music by George Gershwin
Choreography by George Balanchine

Ballets presented as part of The Suzanne Farrell Ballet's Balanchine Preservation Initiative are produced with the knowledge and cooperation of The George Balanchine Trust.

The performances of all Balanchine® Ballets are presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and have been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.