BALANCHINE´S WORK

George Balanchine is one of the greatest choreographers of all time, he created over 400 works and he transformed the dance in America. This is the list of the most important ballets created by him:

Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev:

•   Le Chant du Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925)

•   Jack in the Box (1926)

•   Pastorale (1926)

•   Barabau (1926)

•   La Chatte (1927)

•   Le Triomphe de Neptune (1927)

•   Apollo (1928)

•   The Prodigal Son (1929)

•   Le Bal (1929)

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo:

•   Cotillon (1932)

•   Concurrence (1932)

•   Balustrade (1941)

•   Danses Concertantes (1944 and 1972)

•   La Sonnambula (1946)

Les Ballets 1933:

•   The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)

•   Errante (1933)

•   Les Songes (1933)

•   Fastes (1933)

American Ballet:

•   Alma Mater (1934)

•   Les Songes (Dreams) (1934)

•   Mozartiana (1934)

•   Serenade (1935)

•   Errante (1935)

•   Reminiscence (1935)

•   Jeu de cartes (variously, Card Game or The Card Party) (1937)

•   Le Baiser de la Fée (originally titled The Fairy's Kiss) (1937)

Broadway:

•   Ziegfeld Follies of 1936

         Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, Night Flight

         5 A.M.

•   On Your Toes (1936)

•   Princess Zenobia Ballet (1936)

•   Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1936)

•   Babes in Arms (1937)

•   I Married an Angel (1938)

•   The Boys from Syracuse (1938)

•   Great Lady (1938)

•   Keep Off the Grass (1940)

•   Lousiana [sic?] Purchase (1940)

•   Cabin in the Sky (1940)

•   The Lady Comes Across (1942)

•   Rosalinda (1942)

•   The Merry Widow (1943)

•   What's Up? (1943)

•   Dream with Music (1944)

•   Song of Norway (1944)

•   Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston (1945)

•   The Chocolate Soldier (1947)

•   Where's Charley? Courtin' Time (1951)

•   House of Flowers (1954)

Hollywood:

•   The Goldwyn Follies (1938)

         "Romeo and Juliet,"

         "Water Nymph Ballet,"

•   On Your Toes (1939)

•   I Was an Adventuress (1940)

•   Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

          "That Old Black Magic,"

•   Follow the Boys (1944)

American Ballet Caravan:

•   Ballet Imperial (later referred to as the Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2) (1941)

•   Concerto Barocco (1941)

Ballet del Teatro de Colón:

•   Mozart Violin Concerto (1942)

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo:

•   Song of Norway (1944)

•   Danses Concertantes (1944)

•   Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1944)

•   Pas de Deux (Grand adagio) (1945)

•   The Night Shadow (1946)

•   Raymonda (1946)

Ballet Theatre:

•   Waltz Academy (1944)

•   Theme and Variations (1947)

Ballet Society:

•   The Four Temperaments (1946)

•   L'enfant et Les Sortilèges (The Spellbound Child) (1946)[15]

•   Haieff Divertimento (1947)

•   Symphonie Concertante (1947)

•   Orpheus (1948)

Paris Opera Ballet:

•   Palais de Cristal (renamed Symphony in C) (1947)

Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas:

•   Pas de Trois Classique (also known as Minkus Pas de Trois) (1948)

New York City Ballet:

•   La Sonnambula (1946)

•   Bourrée Fantasque (1949)

•   The Firebird (1949; later revised with Jerome Robbins)

•   Sylvia Pas De Deux (1950)

•   Swan Lake (after Lev Ivanov) (1951)

•   La Valse (1951)

•   Harlequinade Pas De Deux (1952)

•   Metamorphoses (1952)

•   Scotch Symphony (1952)

•   Valse Fantaisie (1953/1967)

•   The Nutcracker (1954)

•   Ivesiana (1954)

•   Western Symphony (1954)

•   Glinka Pas De Trois (1955)

•   Pas De Dix (1955)

•   Divertimento No. 15 (1956)

•   Allegro Brillante (1956)

•   Agon (1957)

•   Square Dance (1957)

•   Gounod Symphony (1958)

•   Stars and Stripes (a ballet in five "campaigns") (1958)

•   Episodes (1959)

•   Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (1960)

•   Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960)

•   Donizetti Variations (1960)

•   Liebeslieder Walzer (1960)

•   Raymonda Variations (1961)

•   A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)

•   Bugaku (1963)

•   Meditation (1963)

•   Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963)

•   Harlequinade (1965)

•   Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (1966)

•   Jewels (1967)

Emeralds

Rubies

Diamonds

•   La Source (1968)

•   Who Cares (1970)

•   Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (1970)

•   Stravinsky Festival (1972)

Pulcinella (with Jerome Robbins)

Stravinsky Violin Concerto

Symphony in Three Movements

Duo Concertant

Lost Sonata

Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la fée"

Choral Variations on Bach's "Vom Himmel Hoch"

Danses Concertantes

Scherzo Á La Russe

•   Cortège Hongrois (1973)

•   Coppélia (1974)

•   Variations pour une porte et un soupir (1974)

•   Ravel Festival (1975)

Sonatine

Tzigane

Le tombeau de Couperin

Pavane

Shéhérazade

Gaspard de la Nuit

Rapsodie Espagnole

•   The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1975)

•   Chaconne (1976)

•   Union Jack (1976)

•   Vienna Waltzes (1977)

•   Ballo della Regina (1978)

•   Kammermusik No. 2 (1978)

•   Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (1980)

•   Walpurgisnacht Ballet (1980)

•   Tschaikovsky Festival (1981)

Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty

Mozartiana

•   Stravinsky Centennial Celebration (1982)

Élégie

New York City Opera:

•     Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1979)

(Wikipedia, 2014)

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