Square Dance (ballet)

This article is about Balanchine's 1957 ballet. For an article about the differences between traditional square dance and modern Western square dance, see Square dance.

Square Dance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in B minor and the first movement of his Concerto Grosso in E major, Op. 3, nos. 10 and 12, respectively; in 1976 he added Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabanda, Badinerie e Giga, second and third movements. The premiere took place on November 21, 1957, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with lighting by Mark Stanley. The original version placed the musicians on stage with a square dance caller calling the steps; from its 1976 revival the caller was eliminated, the orchestra placed in the pit, and a solo added for the premier danseur to the Corelli Sarabanda. The Pacific Northwest Ballet restored the caller for one performance at the 2007 Vail International Dance Festival.

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original

  • Patricia Wilde

2007 PNB

matinee

  • Kaori Nakamura

evening

  • Jonathan Porretta

Winter 2008 NYCB

Spring 2008 Miami City Ballet

Saturday, March 29

  • Jeanette Delgado

Sunday, March 30

    • Jeremy Cox

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