New York City Ballet: All Balanchine II

New York City Ballet returns to the repertory of its co-founder, George Balanchine, with *All Balanchine II*, a program that places his neoclassical approach in plain view. Since the company’s 1948 founding with Lincoln Kirstein, these works have functioned as a kind of institutional record for how American ballet learned to speak with speed, clarity, and musical logic. Many Balanchine ballets were first seen in New York, where his collaborations helped define the city’s postwar dance identity. The evening offers a clean test of the idea that choreography can be both plotless and precise without feeling abstract.