Episode 2.2: Hear the Dance: A History of New York City Ballet (Part 2) - a podcast by New York City Ballet

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

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