Visionary Steps: Balanchine & Beyond the Contemporary

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-04:00

168 Grove St., New Haven, CT, United States, Connecticut 06501 | New Haven

Yale Schwarzman Center
Publisher/HostYale Schwarzman Center
Visionary Steps: Balanchine & Beyond the Contemporary
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In a special event honoring the legacy of George Balanchine, members of the New York City Ballet offer a tribute performance organized by principal dancer Adrian Danchig-Waring celebrating the visionary choreographer’s enduring influence on the world of dance. Blending performance with scholarship, the evening will offer a rich, multi dimensional look at Balanchine’s innovations in ballet and his lasting imprint on contemporary dance, brought to life through movement, storytelling, and reflection. This Commons event features choreography by Jerome Robbins, Pam Tanowitz, Ulysses Dove, and Christopher Wheeldon—and dancers Unity Phelan, Mira Nadon, Dominika Afanasenkov, Miriam Miller, Joseph Gordon, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Preston Chamblee, and Davide Riccardo.
This performance will include:
Balanchine's Apollo
Jerome Robbins' Suite of Dances
Pam Tanowitz’s Law of Mosaics
Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain
Balanchine's Agon
Kyla Abraham’s The Runaway
Ulysses Dove’s Red Angels
Dancers:
Unity Phelan
Mira Nadon
Dominika Afanasenkov
Miriam Miller
Joseph Gordon
Adrian Danchig-Waring
Preston Chamblee
Davide Riccardo
Choreography:
Jerome Robbins
Pam Tanowitz
Ulysses Dove
Christopher Wheeldon
Commons is located at Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove Street, New Haven, CT, 06511.
Free and open to the public with registration.
For more information and registration: https://schwarzman.yale.edu/events/visionary-steps-balanchine-beyond-contemporary
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