Performance

Mozart Works

1 upcoming performance in New York

At New York City Ballet, “Mozart Works” appears within an evening that sets George Balanchine repertory against music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, danced by NYCB alongside NYCB II. The choreography is pared back, built to register phrasing, counterpoint, and cadence rather than plot. In New York, Balanchine’s Mozart ballets have long functioned as a kind of house language, tying the company’s identity to a classical music lineage and a distinctly American neoclassical style. One clear effect is how the shared program lets emerging dancers test that language in public, where musical precision becomes the subject.