Ballet

Mozartiana

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*Mozartiana* is a late ballet by George Balanchine, set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s suite after Mozart. Made in 1981 for New York City Ballet, it premiered at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center and has remained in the company’s repertory. The ballet is often presented as a sequence of formal dances, culminating in a polonaise and a closing hymn-like tableau. Its restraint can read as both tribute and elegy, with movement that seems to listen closely to the score.