Ballet

All Bach

4 upcoming performances in New York

New York City Ballet’s *All Bach*, at Lincoln Center, sets choreography against the Baroque architecture of Johann Sebastian Bach’s orchestral and solo scores. The program treats Bach less as accompaniment than as structural blueprint, using counterpoint and repetition to shape groupings, timing, and spatial design. Bach has long been central to New York’s concert life, and this kind of sustained dance focus reflects the city’s ongoing habit of re-reading canonical music through contemporary movement. The most telling effect is how the dances make musical logic visible without reducing it to illustration.