New York City Ballet: Founding Choreographers II February 18, 2009

With its bubbly choreography and jaw-dropping technical feats, the non-stop 'Ballo della Regina' almost seems to take place in an underwater grotto. Balanchine transports the audience to the poetic pages of Robert Schumann's 'Davidsbundlertanze' in an arresting series of dances intimating this brilliant composer's oft troubled psyche. Expansive in scope and streamlined in style, Robbins' 'Glass Pieces' captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its charged, urban choreography.