The New York City Ballet Tickets

The powerhouse dancers of NYCB, celebrated all over the world for their interpretations of both classic and contemporary choreography, return to the Kennedy Center with two programs brimming with works by ballet legends and today’s most exciting innovators.

Founding Choreographers
June 6 & 8 Eve. | June 10 & 11 Mat.
GEORGE BALANCHINE Square Dance
JEROME ROBBINS Afternoon of a Faun
GEORGE BALANCHINE Concerto Barocco
GEORGE BALANCHINE Donizetti Variations
The company performs works from the classic grace of NYCB’s most legendary choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. From Balanchine, Square Dance reconceives square dancing while retaining its fascinating patterns and energetic spirit, while Donizetti Variations sets a series of effervescent dances to music from the opera Don Sebastian. One of Balanchine’s greatest masterpieces, Concerto Barocco makes music visible as two dynamic ballerinas depict one of the instrumental soloists in a virtuosic double violin concerto. Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun is a subtle and sensual depiction of a chance encounter between two young dancers in a studio, set to Claude Debussy.

Visionary Voices
June 7, 9 & 10 Eve.
ALEXEI RATMANSKY - Pictures at an Exhibition
ALYSA PIRES - New Pires
JUSTIN PECK - Solo
KYLE ABRAHAM - Love Letter (on shuffle)
Be there for works from some of today’s most visionary choreographers! In Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition set to Modest Mussorgsky’s famed piano score, ten dancers move in varying combinations to display a plethora of emotion, from raw and wild to solemn and soulful. Alysa Pires, a “dancemaker to watch,” makes her NYCB choreographic debut with the newly premiered New Pires. Justin Peck’s moving Solo—his first choreography for a standalone artist, created for Principal Dancer Anthony Huxley—is set to the original String Quartet version of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.