Yet Another Updated List

Since I last updated this list in July of last year, Andrew and I have attended another eight ballet performances, five by New York City Ballet and three by Boston Ballet.

The performances are listed below in the order we attended them.

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New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
New York

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet [Johannes Brahms-Arnold Schoenberg/George Balanchine]
Glass Pieces [Philip Glass/Jerome Robbins]
Stars And Stripes [John Philip Sousa-Hershy Kay/George Balanchine]

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New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
New York

Chaconne [Christoph Willibald Gluck/George Balanchine]
Concerto Barocco [Johann Sebastian Bach/George Balanchine]
Tarentella [Louis Moreau Gottschalk/George Balanchine]
Glass Pieces [Philip Glass/Jerome Robbins]

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Boston Ballet
Boston Opera House
Boston

La Bayadere [Ludwig Minkus/Marius Petipa-Florence Clerc]

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New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
New York

Walpurgisnacht Ballet [Charles Gounod/George Balanchine]
Dances At A Gathering [Frederic Chopin/Jerome Robbins]
Concerto DSCH [Dmitri Shostakovich/Alexei Ratmansky]

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New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
New York

Walpurgisnacht Ballet [Charles Gounod/George Balanchine]
Duo Concertant [Igor Stravinsky/George Balanchine]
The Four Temperaments [Paul Hindemith/George Balanchine]
Cortege Hongrois [Alexander Glazunov/George Balanchine]

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New York City Ballet
New York State Theater
New York

Mozartiana [Peter Illich Tchaikovsky/George Balanchine]
The Prodigal Son [Sergei Prokofiev/George Balanchine]
Stars And Stripes [John Philip Sousa-Hershy Kay/George Balanchine]

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Boston Ballet
Boston Opera House
Boston

A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Felix Mendelssohn/George Balanchine]

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Boston Ballet
Boston Opera House
Boston

Divertimento No. 15 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/George Balanchine]
Afternoon Of A Faun [Claude Debussy/Jerome Robbins]
Antique Epigraphs [Claude Debussy/Jerome Robbins]
Symphony In Three Movements [Igor Stravinsky/George Balanchine]

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Other than “La Bayadere”, all ballet performances we attended last season were built around the works of George Balanchine. In the last five years, I have developed a distinct regard for the work of Balanchine, surely the finest choreographer who ever lived.

Some of the works I had already experienced: “Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet”; “Concerto DSCH”; “Mozartiana”; “The Prodigal Son”; and “The Four Temperaments”, a ballet I had seen three times prior to this year’s fourth encounter.

The other works were all new to me. I enjoyed expanding my knowledge of the Balanchine canon. Now back in Minneapolis, I regret that Andrew and I shall have few opportunities to see Balanchine ballets performed.

For us, ballet performances will be few and far between for the next year. Scottish Ballet, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Houston Ballet will visit the Twin Cities next season—and that’s it (although several modern dance troupes will also visit Minneapolis during their annual nationwide tours).

In addition, next month we shall see the Mariinsky Ballet perform “Swan Lake” and “La Bayadere” at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. We look forward to the Mariinsky performances very much.