New York City Ballet | |
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General information | |
Name | New York City Ballet |
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Year founded | 1948 |
Founders | |
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Principal venue | |
Website | www.nycballet.com |
Artistic staff | |
Artistic Director | Jonathan Stafford (and Wendy Whelan, Associate Artistic Director) |
Ballet Master | Rosemary Dunleavy |
Music Director | Andrew Litton |
Other | |
Orchestra | The New York City Ballet Orchestra |
Official school | School of American Ballet |
Associated schools | |
Formation |
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New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine[1] and Lincoln Kirstein.[2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet,[3] 1934; the American Ballet,[4] 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan,[5] 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society,[6][7] 1946.