All Balanchine I (Spring)

A feast for Balanchine devotees. The oldest Balanchine ballet in the repertory, the neoclassical masterwork Apollo, first staged in 1928, leads a bill that traces the choreographer’s work across an astonishing half-century. Also on the program is the exhilarating Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, a supremely stylish dance created to music originally written for Swan Lake. And representing the latter years of Balanchine’s career are two dances created in the 1970s: the vivacious Ballo della Regina, with its quicksilver choreography and sprightly music by Giuseppe Verdi, and the entrancing Chaconne, which includes a memorably beautiful pas de deux and a thrilling ensemble finale, set to music drawn from Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice.