Sep 8, 2019
New York City Ballet’s history doesn’t end with George Balanchine. Corps de Ballet Member Silas Farley continues to recount the history of the Company and the integral roles Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins played in furthering the legacy of one of the world’s premiere ballet institutions. (30:25)
This is a continuation of Part 1 of this episode.
All music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra.
Ballets discussed in this episode:
Bourrée Fantasque
The Cage
Afternoon of a Faun
The Concert
Dances at a Gathering
The Goldberg Variations
Glass Pieces
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
West Side Story Suite
Calcium Light Night
Polyphonia
After the Rain
Concerto DSCH
Pictures at an Exhibition
Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
Everywhere We Go
Quotations from the writings of Lincoln Kirstein are © 2019 by the New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations).
READING LIST
Reference Books for the
Entire Season
Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer
Homans
No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century by Nancy
Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick
Reference Books for
Hear the Dance: A History of New York City Ballet, Parts 1
& 2
Thirty Years: New York City Ballet by Lincoln Kirstein
By With To & From: A Lincoln Kirstein Reader Edited by
Nicholas Jenkins
Repertory in Review: Forty Years of The New York City
Ballet by Nancy Reynolds
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of The New York City Ballet
Edited by Lynn Garafola with Eric Foner
Balanchine and Kirstein’s American Enterprise by James
Steichen
Balanchine: A Biography by Bernard Taper
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill
Far From Denmark by Peter Martins
In Balanchine’s Company: A Dancer’s Memoir by Barbara
Milberg Fisher