List of ballets by George Balanchine

This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master.

George Balanchine in 1965

Chronological

1928 Apollo 1929 Le Bal 1929 The Prodigal Son 1935 Serenade 1936 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 1936 Zenobia 1937 Jeu de cartes 1941 Concerto Barocco 1941 Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 1942 Circus Polka 1946 La Sonnambula 1946 The Four Temperaments 1947 Haieff Divertimento 1947 Symphonie Concertante 1947 Symphony in C 1947 Theme and Variations 1948 Orpheus 1948 Pas de Trois (Minkus) 1949 Bourrée fantasque 1949 The Firebird 1950 Sylvia Pas de Deux 1951 À la Françaix 1951 La Valse 1951 Swan Lake (Act 2) 1952 Bayou 1952 Concertino 1952 Caracole 1952 Harlequinade Pas de Deux 1952 Metamorphoses 1952 Scotch Symphony 1954 Ivesiana 1954 The Nutcracker 1954 Western Symphony 1955 Pas de Dix 1955 Pas de Trois 1956 Allegro Brillante 1956 Divertimento No. 15 1957 Agon 1957 Square Dance 1958 Gounod Symphony 1958 Stars and Stripes 1959 Episodes 1960 Donizetti Variations 1960 Liebeslieder Walzer 1960 Monumentum pro Gesualdo 1960 Ragtime (I) 1960 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux 1961 Raymonda Variations 1962 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1963 Bugaku 1963 Meditation

1963 Movements for Piano and Orchestra 1964 Clarinade 1964 Tarantella 1965 Don Quixote 1965 Harlequinade 1966 Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet 1966 Variations 1967 Divertimento Brillante 1967 Jewels Emeralds Rubies Diamonds 1967 Ragtime (II) 1967 Valse-Fantaisie 1968 Metastaseis and Pithoprakta 1968 Requiem Canticles 1968 La Source 1968 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 1970 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 1970 Who Cares? 1972 Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée 1972 Duo Concertant 1972 Pulcinella 1972 Scherzo à la Russe 1972 Stravinsky Violin Concerto 1972 Symphony in Three Movements 1973 Cortège Hongrois 1974 Coppélia 1974 Variations pour une porte et un soupir 1975 Le tombeau de Couperin 1975 Pavane 1975 Sonatine 1975 The Steadfast Tin Soldier 1975 Tzigane 1976 Chaconne 1976 Union Jack 1977 Etude for Piano 1977 Vienna Waltzes 1978 Ballo della Regina 1978 Kammermusik No. 2 1979 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 1980 Ballade 1980 Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze 1980 Walpurgisnacht Ballet 1981 Garland Dance 1981 Hungarian Gypsy Airs 1981 Mozartiana 1982 Élégie 1982 Noah and the Flood 1982 Tango 1982 Variations for Orchestra

Alphabetical

1951 À la Françaix 1962 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1957 Agon 1956 Allegro Brillante 1928 Apollo 1929 Le Bal 1980 Ballade 1978 Ballo della Regina 1952 Bayou 1979 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 1949 Bourrée fantasque 1966 Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet 1963 Bugaku 1952 Caracole 1976 Chaconne 1942 Circus Polka 1964 Clarinade 1952 Concertino 1941 Concerto Barocco 1974 Coppélia 1973 Cortège Hongrois 1967 Diamonds 1967 Divertimento Brillante 1972 Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée 1956 Divertimento No. 15 1965 Don Quixote 1960 Donizetti Variations 1972 Duo Concertant 1982 Élégie 1967 Emeralds 1959 Episodes 1977 Etude for Piano 1949 The Firebird 1946 The Four Temperaments 1981 Garland Dance 1958 Gounod Symphony 1947 Haieff Divertimento 1965 Harlequinade 1952 Harlequinade Pas de Deux 1981 Hungarian Gypsy Airs 1954 Ivesiana 1937 Jeu de cartes 1967 Jewels 1978 Kammermusik No. 2 1946 La Sonnambula 1968 La Source 1951 La Valse 1929 Le Bal 1960 Liebeslieder Walzer 1963 Meditation 1952 Metamorphoses 1968 Metastaseis and Pithoprakta

1960 Monumentum pro Gesualdo 1963 Movements for Piano and Orchestra 1981 Mozartiana 1982 Noah and the Flood 1948 Orpheus 1955 Pas de Dix 1955 Pas de Trois (Glinka) 1948 Pas de Trois (Minkus] 1975 Pavane 1929 The Prodigal Son 1972 Pulcinella 1960 Ragtime (I) 1967 Ragtime (II) 1961 Raymonda Variations 1968 Requiem Canticles 1980 Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze 1967 Rubies 1972 Scherzo à la russe 1952 Scotch Symphony 1935 Serenade 1936 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 1975 Sonatine 1968 La source 1957 Square Dance 1958 Stars and Stripes 1975 The Steadfast Tin Soldier 1972 Stravinsky Violin Concerto 1951 Swan Lake (Act 2) 1950 Sylvia Pas de Deux 1947 Symphonie Concertante 1947 Symphony in C 1972 Symphony in Three Movements 1982 Tango 1964 Tarantella 1947 Theme and Variations 1975 Le tombeau de Couperin 1960 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux 1941 Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 1970 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 1975 Tzigane 1976 Union Jack 1967 Valse-Fantaisie 1966 Variations 1982 Variations for Orchestra 1974 Variations pour une porte et un soupir 1977 Vienna Waltzes 1980 Walpurgisnacht Ballet 1954 Western Symphony 1970 Who Cares? 1936 Zenobia

By company

For Ballets Russes

• Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925)
• Jack in the Box (1926)
• Pastorale (1926)
• Barabau (1926)
• La Chatte (1927)
• Le Triomphe de Neptune (1927)
• Apollo (1928)
• The Prodigal Son (1929)
• Le Bal (1929)

For Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo

• Cotillon (1932)
• Concurrence (1932)
• Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1932 and 1944)
• Balustrade (1941)
• Danses concertantes (1944 and 1972)
• Song of Norway (1944)
• Pas de Deux (Grand adagio) (1945)
• La Sonnambula (1946)
• The Night Shadow (1946)
• Raymonda (1946)

For Les Ballets 1933

• The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
• Errante (1933)
• Les Songes (1933)
• Fastes (1933)

For the American Ballet

• Alma Mater (1934)
• Les Songes (Dreams) (1934)
• Mozartiana (1934)
• Serenade (1935)
• Errante (1935)
• Reminiscence (1935)
• Jeu de cartes (variously, Card Game or The Card Party) (1937)
• Le Baiser de la Fée (originally titled The Fairy's Kiss) (1937)

For Broadway

• Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
  • Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, a production number for the singing and dancing ensemble
  • Night Flight, a solo for Harriet Hoctor
  • 5 A.M., a number for Josephine Baker and male dancers
• On Your Toes (1936), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart; starring Tamara Geva and Ray Bolger. This dramatic ballet served as the climax of this musical production and has subsequently been presented as a stand-alone piece; however, several of the sung numbers in the show featured dance routines as well, notably the title number.
  • Princess Zenobia Ballet (1936)
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1936).
• Babes in Arms (1937), by Rodgers and Hart
• I Married an Angel (1938), by Rodgers and Hart; starring Vera Zorina
• The Boys from Syracuse (1938), by Rodgers and Hart
• Great Lady (1938), music by Frederick Loewe
• Keep Off the Grass (1940), a musical revue
• Louisiana Purchase (1940), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; with William Gaxton and Vera Zorina
• Cabin in the Sky (1940), music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John Latouche; starring Ethel Waters and Katherine Dunham, who collaborated with Balanchine on the choreography
• The Lady Comes Across (1942), by Duke and Latouche; a notable flop
• Rosalinda (1942), an operetta with music by Johann Strauss
• The Merry Widow (1943), an operetta with music by Franz Lehár
• What's Up? (1943), lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
• Dream with Music (1944), a musical fantasy starring Vera Zorina
• Song of Norway (1944), an operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg; Balanchine's most successful Broadway show
• Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston (1945), another flop
• The Chocolate Soldier (1947), an operetta with music by Oscar Straus
• Where's Charley? lyrics and music by Frank Loesser, a long-running show starring Ray Bolger
• Courtin' Time (1951), music and lyrics by Don Walker and Jack Lawrence
• House of Flowers (1954), music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen; starring Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and Juanita Hall; Balanchine's choreography was rearranged by Herbert Ross before the Broadway opening

For Hollywood

• The Goldwyn Follies (1938), with Vera Zorina and William Dollar as principal dancers
  • "Romeo and Juliet," with ballet dancers as the Capulets and tap dancers as the Montagues
  • "Water Nymph Ballet," in which Zorina rose from the depths of a pool
• On Your Toes (1939), the film version of the Broadway show, starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert
• I Was an Adventuress (1940), starring Vera Zorina
• Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), a wartime morale booster for military troops
  • "That Old Black Magic," sung by Johnny Johnston, danced by Vera Zorina
• Follow the Boys (1944), with Vera Zorina and George Raft

For American Ballet Caravan

• Ballet Imperial (1941; renamed Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1973)
• Concerto Barocco (1941)

For the Ballet del Teatro de Colón

• Mozart Violin Concerto (1942)

For Ballet Theatre

• Waltz Academy (1944)
• Theme and Variations (1947)

For Ballet Society

• The Four Temperaments (1946)
• L'enfant et Les Sortilèges (The Spellbound Child) (1946)^[1]
• Haieff Divertimento (1947)
• Symphonie Concertante (1947)
• Orpheus (1948)

For the Paris Opera Ballet

• Palais de Cristal (1947, in 1948 restaged in Symphony in C)

For Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas

• Pas de Trois Classique (also known as Minkus Pas de Trois) (1948)

For New York City Ballet

• La Sonnambula (1946)
• Bourrée Fantasque (1949)
• The Firebird (1959; later revised with Jerome Robbins)
• Sylvia Pas De Deux (1950)
• Swan Lake (after Lev Ivanov) (1951)
• La Valse (1951)
• Harlequinade Pas De Deux (1952)
• Metamorphoses (1952)
• Caracole (1952)
• Scotch Symphony (1952)
• Valse Fantaisie (1953/1967)
• The Nutcracker (1954)
• Ivesiana (1954)
• Western Symphony (1954)
• Glinka Pas De Trois (1955)
• Pas De Dix (1955)
• Divertimento No. 15 (1956)
• Allegro Brillante (1956)
• Agon (1957)
• Square Dance (1957)
• Gounod Symphony (1958)
• Stars and Stripes (a ballet in five "campaigns") (1958)
• Episodes (1959)
• Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (1960)
• Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960)
• Donizetti Variations (1960)
• Liebeslieder Walzer (1960)
• Raymonda Variations (1961)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)
• Bugaku (1963)
• Meditation (1963)
• Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963)
• Harlequinade (1965)
• Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet (1966)
• Jewels (1967)
  • Emeralds
  • Rubies
  • Diamonds
• La Source (1968)
• Who Cares? (1970)
• Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (1970)
• Stravinsky Festival (1972)
  • Pulcinella (with Jerome Robbins)
  • Stravinsky Violin Concerto
  • Symphony in Three Movements
  • Duo Concertant
  • Lost Sonata
  • Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la fée"
  • Choral Variations on Bach's "Vom Himmel Hoch"
  • Danses Concertantes
  • Scherzo Á La Russe
• Cortège Hongrois (1973)
• Coppélia (1974)
• Variations pour une porte et un soupir (1974)
• Ravel Festival (1975)
  • Sonatine
  • Tzigane
  • Le tombeau de Couperin
  • Pavane
  • Shéhérazade
  • Gaspard de la Nuit
  • Rapsodie Espagnole
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1975)
• Chaconne (1976)
• Union Jack (1976)
• Vienna Waltzes (1977)
• Ballo della Regina (1978)
• Kammermusik No. 2 (1978)
• Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (1980)
• Walpurgisnacht Ballet (1980)
• Tschaikovsky Festival (1981)
  • Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
  • Mozartiana
• Stravinsky Centennial Celebration (1982)
  • Élégie

For New York City Opera

• Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1979)