Ballet

New York City Ballet All Bach

1 upcoming performance in New York

At New York City Ballet, **All Bach** is a program built around the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, treating Baroque structure as the engine for choreographic inquiry. The company Balanchine and Kirstein founded returns to a composer long central to its repertory, translating orchestral and solo scores into spare, contemporary ballet phrasing. In New York’s dance history, Bach has often served as a kind of proving ground for musicality and line. The result can feel almost clinical in its clarity, which is part of its point.