The New York City Ballet 2023 winter season will take place from January 17 through February 26 at the David H. Koch Theater.
The six-week season features the 100-member ballet company and its 62-piece orchestra performing seventeen ballets including Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes, the first full-length world premiere made for NYCB in 20 years, set to music by Aaron Copland, and Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s new work to Du Yun’s music – the first time that choreography and music created by female Asian artists will enter the company’s repertory.
Additional works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon and The Sleeping Beauty round out the New York City Ballet 2023 winter season.
New York City Ballet 2023 Winter Season Schedule
All Balanchine | January 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 28, 2023
David H. Koch Theater
- Donizetti Variations by George Balanchine
- Haieff Divertimento by George Balanchine
- Valse Fantaisie by George Balanchine
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto by George Balanchine
Classic NYCB I | January 20, 21, 22, 24, 27 & February 4, 2023
David H. Koch Theater
- Allegro Brillante by George Balanchine
- Liturgy by Christopher Wheeldon
- Walpurgisnacht Ballet by George Balanchine
- West Side Story Suite by Jerome Robbins
Copland Dance Episodes | January 26, 28, 29 & February 3, 4, 7, 2023
David H. Koch Theater
- Copland Dance Episodes (World Premiere) by Justin Peck
Copland Dance Episodes is an abstract, non-narrative, full evening piece, performed without intermission set to music by Aaron Copland. It will feature a cast of 30 dancers and the New York City Ballet Orchestra performing four of Copland’s most acclaimed musical scores: Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man, and Rodeo.
The visual design for the ballet will be by the acclaimed American artist Jeffrey Gibson. A 2019 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, Gibson was born in Colorado of Choctaw and Cherokee descent, and is known for incorporating elements of Native American art and craft into his practice.
The lighting design will be by frequent Peck collaborator Brandon Stirling Baker, who will be collaborating with Peck on their 30th production with this work.
The costume design will be by former NYCB dancer Ellen Warren (Ostrom), who will be designing costumes for NYCB for the first time.
Classic NYCB II | January 31 & February 2, 5, 10, 12, 2023
David H. Koch Theater
- Fancy Free by Jerome Robbins
- Rondo by Jerome Robbins
- Solo by Justin Peck
- Episodes by George Balanchine
21st Century Choreography | February 1, 8, 9, 11, 2023
David H. Koch Theater
- Voices by Alexei Ratmansky
- World Premiere by Keerati Jinakunwiphat
- Everywhere We Go by Justin Peck
Keerati Jinakunwiphat, who is currently a dancer with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, will premiere her first work choreographed for NYCB.
In 2021 Jinakunwiphat participated in the Fall Working Session of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of NYCB, where she began to develop this work for nine dancers set to two pieces of music by the Chinese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun: an excerpt from Run in a Graveyard, and Air Glow, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2019.
New York-based designer Karen Young, who has worked with many choreographers including Kyle Abraham, Pontus Lidberg, Benjamin Millepied, and Troy Schumacher, will design the costumes, and the lighting design will be by Brooklyn-based designer Dan Scully.
The Sleeping Beauty | February 15-26, 2023
David H. Koch Theater
- The Sleeping Beauty by Peter Martins
This full-length staging of The Sleeping Beauty, one of NYCB’s most lavish and elaborate productions, was created by Peter Martins in 1991 and is set to Tchaikovsky’s beloved score.
With more than 100 dancers in each performance, including students from the School of American Ballet, the production features choreography after Marius Petipa and Balanchine, costumes by Patricia Zipprodt, sets by David Mitchell, and lighting by Mark Stanley.
New York City Ballet 2023 Winter Season Principal Casting JANUARY 17-22, 2023
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 7:30PM
(Conductor: Sill)
DONIZETTI VARIATIONS: M. Fairchild, *Huxley
HAIEFF DIVERTIMENTO: *Woodward, Ball
VALSE-FANTAISIE: Pereira, Ulbricht
STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO: Laracey, Gordon, Mearns, Danchig-Waring [Solo Violin: Nikkanen]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 7:30PM
(Conductor: Sill)
DONIZETTI VARIATIONS: T. Peck, Veyette
HAIEFF DIVERTIMENTO: *Clark, *Knight
VALSE-FANTAISIE: Woodward, Mejia
STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO: Gerrity, Janzen, Phelan, Stanley [Solo Violin: Nikkanen]
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 7:30PM
(Conductor: Sill)
DONIZETTI VARIATIONS: M. Fairchild, Huxley
HAIEFF DIVERTIMENTO: Woodward, Ball
VALSE-FANTAISIE: Pereira, Ulbricht
STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO: Laracey, Gordon, Mearns, Danchig-Waring [Solo Violin: Nikkanen]
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 8:00PM
(Conductor: Litton)
ALLEGRO BRILLANTE: T. Peck, Mejia [Solo Piano: Kim]
LITURGY: *Phelan, *Chan [Solo Violin: Delmoni]
WALPURGISNACHT BALLET: Mearns, T. Angle, Pereira, C. Von Enck, Jones
FIREBIRD: LaFreniere, J. Angle, Gerrity, Bolden
SATURDAY MATINEE, JANUARY 21, 2:00PM
(Conductor: Sill)
DONIZETTI VARIATIONS: *Woodward, *Gordon
HAIEFF DIVERTIMENTO: Clark, Knight
VALSE-FANTAISIE: Pereira, Ulbricht
STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO: Gerrity, Janzen, Phelan, Stanley [Solo Violin: Nikkanen]
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 8:00PM
(Conductor: Litton)
ALLEGRO BRILLANTE: T. Peck, Mejia [Solo Piano: Kim]
LITURGY: Phelan, Chan [Solo Violin: Delmoni]
WALPURGISNACHT BALLET: Mearns, T. Angle, Pereira, C. Von Enck, Jones
FIREBIRD: LaFreniere, J. Angle, Gerrity, Bolden
SUNDAY MATINEE, JANUARY 22, 3:00PM
(Conductor: Litton)
ALLEGRO BRILLANTE: T. Peck, Mejia [Solo Piano: Kim]
LITURGY: Phelan, Chan [Solo Violin: Delmoni]
WALPURGISNACHT BALLET: Mearns, T. Angle, Pereira, C. Von Enck, Jones
FIREBIRD: LaFreniere, J. Angle, Gerrity, Bolden
* First Time in Role
PROGRAM AND CASTING SUBJECT TO CHANGE (01/03/22)
Featured Photo for the New York City Ballet 2023 Winter Season of Sara Mearns, Russell Janzen, and Company in George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht Ballet. Photo by Erin Baiano
