New York City Ballet dancers trickled onstage in mismatched sweatshirts, down vests, practice tutus and leg warmers at the start of a rehearsal for Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita.” ...

Alexei Ratmansky creates a joyful new “Paquita” for New York City Ballet, giving the dancers a classical frame in which to find new versions of themselves.

“Paquita,” by artist in residence Alexei Ratmansky, presents two zesty numbers originally composed by Ludwig Minkus for Marius Petipa’s three-act, 1881 narrative ballet set in Zaragoza, Spain.

Co-founded by George Balanchine in 1948, New York City Ballet is considered one of the best dance companies in the world, and at 75 is catering to an increasingly younger audience.

On a new choreography of Paquita performed by New York City Ballet. Minkus Pas de Trois, last performed by the company in 1993, is a sparkling eight-minute showpiece for three dancers, two female ...

New York. For only the second time in my 5 1/2 decades attending New York City Ballet’s spring seasons at Lincoln Center, the troupe presented no world premieres.

The New York City Ballet will also celebrate contemporary choreography with a night of four works. Amy Hall Garner, on the heels of premieres with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor ...

For only the second time in my 5 1/2 decades attending New York City Ballet’s spring seasons at Lincoln Center, the troupe presented no world premieres. Of the 26 ballets in rotation through ...

The two works that New York City Ballet unveils this season (at the David H. Koch, Jan. 21-March 2) illustrate this. Peck’s new “Mystic Familiar” (premièring Jan. 29) takes its title from a ...

New York City Ballet celebrates 75 years 01:34. One of the best-known dance companies in the world is taking a bow with the celebration of a major milestone.

Before its winter season concludes on March 2, following a run of 13 performances of its 2-act “Swan Lake” in Peter Martins’s strung-out and undistinguished 1996 staging, New York City ...