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Apolo
Balanchine's first collaboration with Stravinsky and one of his earliest international successes, Apollo presents the young god as he is ushered into adulthood by the muses of poetry, mime, and dance. Apollo is the oldest Balanchine ballet in New York City Ballet’s repertory. Created for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and originally titled Apollon Musagète, the ballet premiered in Paris in 1928 and was Balanchine’s first major collaboration with composer Igor Stravinsky. -
Kurt Jooss
Kurt Jooss was a famous German ballet dancer and choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre; he is also widely regarded as the founder of Tanztheater. Jooss is noted for establishing several dance companies, including most notably, the Folkwang Tanztheater, in Essen.
His most important choreographic work, The Green Table (1932), had won first prize at an international competition for new choreography held by the Archives Internationales de la Danse in Paris in 1932. -
Serenade
Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet Balanchine created in America and is one of the signature works of New York City Ballet’s repertory. Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. Serenade is credited as being George Balanchine's first full-length ballet in America. -
Balanchine
George Balanchine was a highly influential choreographer who founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet and collaborated with composers Igor Stravinsky and Richard Rodgers, among others. -
Anthony Tudor
Tudor was one of the greatest choreographers of the twentieth century. In 1951, Tudor joined The Juilliard School’s Dance Division as a founding faculty member, a position he held until 1971. He was appointed Associate Director of ABT in 1974 in which capacity he served until his appointment as Choreographer Emeritus in 1980. He was Choreographer Emeritus until his death in 1987. -
Mat Ek
In 1972, Ek joined the Cullberg Ballet. In 1975, he formed part of the corps de ballet for the Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. And in 1976, he made his first choreography titled The Officer's Servant for the Cullberg Ballet. a leading Swedish dance and ballet choreographer, dancer and stage director. He is the son of the famous choreographer Birgit Cullberg and actor Anders Ek. -
Lalala Human Steps
Lalala Human Steps was a Quebecois contemporary dance group in Canada, active between 1980 and 2015, known for its energetic, acrobatic style involving fast paced and athletic physical contact. Its signature move was the barrel jump – a gravity-defying, fully horizontal, mid-air barrel roll.
Edouard Lock, the choreographer and founder of LaLaLa Human Steps, began his dancing career at the age of 19. From 1975 to 1979, he choreographed several pieces for dance companies -
Natalia Makarova
Named "prima ballerina absolutta," as well as "first lady of ballet," heavily praised for her legendary superhuman work in ballet. She, along with Baryshnikov, Nureyev, Nijinsky and Malakov remain as evidence that he finest ballet dancer of any generation will always be a Russian. With her shapely face, big expressive eyes, large cheekbones -
Sol Leon and Lightfoot
León and Lightfoot have been a choreographer’s duo since 1989 and together they have created more than fifty pieces for the Netherlands Dans Theater. -
Gaga
Ohad Naharin is a choreographer, the creator of the Gaga movement language, and House Choreographer of Batsheva Dance Company.
