‘All Balanchine’

Contrasting Balanchine works illustrate the variety of his imagination. Allegro Brillante dazzles with its intricate choreography, which Balanchine once said “contains everything I know about the classical ballet – in thirteen minutes.”

The frolicsome La Source is performed to music from the French composer Delibes. And Balanchine turned once again to Stravinsky for Firebird, a dance drama based on a Russian folk tale, with evocative designs by Marc Chagall.