New York City Ballet

New York State Theater

The New York City Ballet (New York City Ballet) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. The company was born from a first troupe known as the Ballet Society. The name changed when it became a resident company of the New York City Center for Music and Drama. It would become the first ballet company in the United States to have permanent contracts at two sites: one at the New York State Theater (now David H. Koch Theater) at the Lincoln Center at 63rd Street in Manhattan, and another at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs. The City Ballet, as it is known, under the direction of Balanchine became a world-famous American ballet company and still has the widest repertoire among all the American ballet companies, frequently staging 60 ballets or more in their winter and spring seasons at Lincoln Center every year and 20 or more ballets in their summer season in Saratoga Springs. The New York City Ballet has had great interpreters since its founding, including Jacques d'Amboise, Edward Villella, Melissa Hayden, Conrad Ludlow, Suzanne Farrell, Allegra Kent, Tanaquil LeClerq, Darci Kistler, Peter Martins and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

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