Sacramento Ballet will wrap its 2023-24 season at a technical and inventive peak with Innovations (May 17-19, 2024), a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. The performances feature Apollo - ...

Balanchine regarded Apollo as his artistic coming of age. He said that through the creation of this work, he learned he could "dare not use all my ideas, that I too, could eliminate. . . to the one ...

The central part in “Apollo” (1928) — the oldest George Balanchine work that the company performs — is one of the most difficult male roles in the repertory, requiring athleticism and dramatic depth.

The 1928 work, the oldest Balanchine piece in City Ballet’s repertory, imagines Apollo as a youth, still a little raw and vulnerable, experimenting with three muses, discovering music and dance. NEW ...

In the George Balanchine canon, there is only one god. His name is Apollo. This title role is conferred upon only a few at New York City Ballet. Those who are cast in this Stravinsky ballet are the ...