One of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses, Suzanne Farrell remains a legendary figure in the ballet world. She joined Balanchine's New York City Ballet in 1961 by the mid-1960s had become not only one of Balanchine's most renowned ballerinas but also a symbol of the era. During her 28 years on the stage, she danced a repertory of more than 100 ballets, nearly a third of which were created expressly for her, in which she expanded the limits of ballerina technique to a degree not before seen. She founded the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, housed at the Kennedy Center, in 2000 as a way of preserving Balanchine's legacy. Over the past decade, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet has become a highly lauded company, hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most courageous projects in ballet today.”

Program · Friday 10/9 : · Balanchine : Apollo (1928) or Agon (1957) · Balanchine : Solos and Pas de Deux from Divertimento No. 15 (1956) · Béjart : Scene d'Amour from Romeo and Juliet (1966) · Balanchine : Contrapuntal Blues Pas de deux from Clarinade (1964) · : · Saturday 10/10 : The Balanchine Couple · Apollo (1928) : Music by Igor Stravinsky · La Sonnambula (1946) : Music by Vittorio Rieti · The Unanswered Question from Ivesiana : (1954) Music by Charles Ives · La Valse (1951) : Music by Maurice Ravel · Agon (1957) : Music by Igor Stravinsky · Meditation (1963) : Music by Igor Stravinsky · “Pas de Mauresque” : from Balanchine's Don Quixote (1965) Music by Nicolas Nabokov · Diamonds (1967) : Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Chaconne (1976) : Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck · “Grand Pas de Deux” : from Stars and Stripes (1958) Music by John Philip Sousa