Ballet

Mozartiana

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George Balanchine’s *Mozartiana* is a plotless ballet built on Tchaikovsky’s orchestral suite of the same name, a score that looks back to Mozart through a late-Romantic lens. Balanchine made the work for New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Festival, premiering in 1981 at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. It is often cited as his last major ballet, arriving late in a career devoted to musical structure. The choreography treats the score like an argument, with form and restraint carrying the drama.