Performance

All Balanchine I

3 upcoming performances in New York

At New York City Ballet, *All Balanchine I* returns to the choreographer who helped found the company in 1948 with Lincoln Kirstein and built much of its identity. The program gathers Balanchine works that show how his approach—music-first structure, spare narrative, and classical line—became a house language in New York. In a city where many of these ballets first took root or were refined, the evening reads like a record of institutional memory. One clear takeaway is how the repertory still tests the company’s precision more than its display.