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This work combines Aaron Copland's music with colorfully dressed dancers.

When Credibility Matters

  The legacy of American ballet begins not in America, but in Russia. The year is 1904 and Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, better known as George Balanchine, is born. The son of a composer, Balanchine joined the Imperial Ballet School at age nine. Shortly after, he began to choreograph ballets and dance across Europe as a...

Rail Contributor Susan Yung examines two new performances from the New York City Ballet.

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This season, the New York City Ballet premieres a new work by Justin Peck set to Copland's music. Here's why it's a perfect fit.

New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer expands on “Rodeo” to make an evening-length work set to some of Aaron Copland’s most popular music.

“Right now you’re dancing on top of or ahead of the music,” Justin Peck told members of New York City Ballet during a recent rehearsal.

At New York City Ballet, Peck’s “Copland Dance Episodes” brings the composer’s three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last.