BALANCHINE: TWIN MASTERPIECES
MARCH 6 – 27
TICKETS $65-$140

A rare program that reveals the infinity of which classical ballet — and in fact, human creativity — is capable.

Balanchine's full-length La Source (presented for the first time in Los Angeles in over 40 years) could not be more different from his masterpiece Concerto Barocco, and yet it could hardly be more similar. Both ballets are storyless, both feature a corps de ballet of eight women, a single female soloist, and a principal couple. Both are about the same length. Both feature a pas de deux at the center. But the deep atmospheres, the sumptuous visuals, and the personalities evoked in each ballet are worlds apart. 

La Source, danced to the music of Léo Delibes, so moved Tchaikovsky that he wrote, “If I had known this music, I would not have written Swan Lake.”

Performed to Johann Sebastian Bach’s luminous 1731 Double Violin Concerto, Concerto Barocco is “as near perfection as ballet can be” — Alastair Macaulay

Presented together in ACB's intimate environment with live music, these works are a revelatory experience of the artform.

PERFORMANCES
March 6 at 8pm *Opening night champagne reception
March 7 at 8pm SOLD OUT
March 12 at 8pm
March 13 at 8pm
March 14 at 8pm SOLD OUT
March 19 at 8pm
March 20 at 8pm
March 21 at 8pm
March 26 at 8pm
March 27 at 8pm

Run time: 75 min including intermission