New York City Ballet New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946. In a 1946 letter, Kirstein stated, "The only justification I have is to enable Balanchine to do exactly
Short list of New York City Ballet repertory and ending Monday, October 12th. This is the list of ballets for the 2011 Winter tour to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, beginning Thursday, March 3, and ending Monday, March 7. This is the list of ballets for the 2011 Spring tour to the Kennedy Center, beginning Tuesday, April 5, and ending Sunday, April 10th. This is the list of ballets for the 2011 Summer tour, beginning at the Vail International Dance Festival, Vail, Colorado, Sunday, July 1, and finishing at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts Sunday, August 7. Short list of New York City Ballet repertory New