List of ballets by George Balanchine

This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master.

Chronological

 * 1928 Apollo
 * 1929 Le Bal
 * 1929 The Prodigal Son
 * 1935 Serenade
 * 1936 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
 * 1936 Zenobia
 * 1937 Jeu de cartes
 * 1941 Concerto Barocco
 * 1941 Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
 * 1942 Circus Polka
 * 1946 La Sonnambula
 * 1946 The Four Temperaments
 * 1947 Haieff Divertimento
 * 1947 Symphonie Concertante
 * 1947 Symphony in C
 * 1947 Theme and Variations
 * 1948 Orpheus
 * 1948 Pas de Trois (Minkus)
 * 1949 Bourrée fantasque
 * 1949 The Firebird
 * 1950 Sylvia Pas de Deux
 * 1951 À la Françaix
 * 1951 La Valse
 * 1951 Swan Lake (Act 2)
 * 1952 Bayou
 * 1952 Concertino
 * 1952 Caracole
 * 1952 Harlequinade Pas de Deux
 * 1952 Metamorphoses
 * 1952 Scotch Symphony
 * 1954 Ivesiana
 * 1954 The Nutcracker
 * 1954 Western Symphony
 * 1955 Pas de Dix
 * 1955 Pas de Trois
 * 1956 Allegro Brillante
 * 1956 Divertimento No. 15
 * 1957 Agon
 * 1957 Square Dance
 * 1958 Gounod Symphony
 * 1958 Stars and Stripes
 * 1959 Episodes
 * 1960 Donizetti Variations
 * 1960 Liebeslieder Walzer
 * 1960 Monumentum pro Gesualdo
 * 1960 Ragtime (I)
 * 1960 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
 * 1961 Raymonda Variations
 * 1962 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * 1963 Bugaku
 * 1963 Meditation
 * 1963 Movements for Piano and Orchestra
 * 1964 Clarinade
 * 1964 Tarantella
 * 1965 Don Quixote
 * 1965 Harlequinade
 * 1966 Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
 * 1966 Variations
 * 1967 Divertimento Brillante
 * 1967 Jewels
 * Emeralds
 * Rubies
 * Diamonds
 * 1967 Ragtime (II)
 * 1967 Valse-Fantaisie
 * 1968 Metastaseis and Pithoprakta
 * 1968 Requiem Canticles
 * 1968 La Source
 * 1968 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
 * 1970 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
 * 1970 Who Cares?
 * 1972 Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée
 * 1972 Duo Concertant
 * 1972 Pulcinella
 * 1972 Scherzo à la Russe
 * 1972 Stravinsky Violin Concerto
 * 1972 Symphony in Three Movements
 * 1973 Cortège Hongrois
 * 1974 Coppélia
 * 1974 Variations pour une porte et un soupir
 * 1975 Le tombeau de Couperin
 * 1975 Pavane
 * 1975 Sonatine
 * 1975 The Steadfast Tin Soldier
 * 1975 Tzigane
 * 1976 Chaconne
 * 1976 Union Jack
 * 1977 Etude for Piano
 * 1977 Vienna Waltzes
 * 1978 Ballo della Regina
 * 1978 Kammermusik No. 2
 * 1979 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
 * 1980 Ballade
 * 1980 Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze
 * 1980 Walpurgisnacht Ballet
 * 1981 Garland Dance
 * 1981 Hungarian Gypsy Airs
 * 1981 Mozartiana
 * 1982 Élégie
 * 1982 Noah and the Flood
 * 1982 Tango
 * 1982 Variations for Orchestra

Alphabetical

 * 1951 À la Françaix
 * 1962 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * 1957 Agon
 * 1956 Allegro Brillante
 * 1928 Apollo
 * 1929 Le Bal
 * 1980 Ballade
 * 1978 Ballo della Regina
 * 1952 Bayou
 * 1979 Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
 * 1949 Bourrée fantasque
 * 1966 Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
 * 1963 Bugaku
 * 1952 Caracole
 * 1976 Chaconne
 * 1942 Circus Polka
 * 1964 Clarinade
 * 1952 Concertino
 * 1941 Concerto Barocco
 * 1974 Coppélia
 * 1973 Cortège Hongrois
 * 1967 Diamonds
 * 1967 Divertimento Brillante
 * 1972 Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée
 * 1956 Divertimento No. 15
 * 1965 Don Quixote
 * 1960 Donizetti Variations
 * 1972 Duo Concertant
 * 1982 Élégie
 * 1967 Emeralds
 * 1959 Episodes
 * 1977 Etude for Piano
 * 1949 The Firebird
 * 1946 The Four Temperaments
 * 1981 Garland Dance
 * 1958 Gounod Symphony
 * 1947 Haieff Divertimento
 * 1965 Harlequinade
 * 1952 Harlequinade Pas de Deux
 * 1981 Hungarian Gypsy Airs
 * 1954 Ivesiana
 * 1937 Jeu de cartes
 * 1967 Jewels
 * 1978 Kammermusik No. 2
 * 1946 La Sonnambula
 * 1968 La Source
 * 1951 La Valse
 * 1929 Le Bal
 * 1960 Liebeslieder Walzer
 * 1963 Meditation
 * 1952 Metamorphoses
 * 1968 Metastaseis and Pithoprakta


 * 1960 Monumentum pro Gesualdo
 * 1963 Movements for Piano and Orchestra
 * 1981 Mozartiana
 * 1982 Noah and the Flood
 * 1948 Orpheus
 * 1955 Pas de Dix
 * 1955 Pas de Trois (Glinka)
 * 1948 Pas de Trois (Minkus]
 * 1975 Pavane
 * 1929 The Prodigal Son
 * 1972 Pulcinella
 * 1960 Ragtime (I)
 * 1967 Ragtime (II)
 * 1961 Raymonda Variations
 * 1968 Requiem Canticles
 * 1980 Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze
 * 1967 Rubies
 * 1972 Scherzo à la russe
 * 1952 Scotch Symphony
 * 1935 Serenade
 * 1936 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
 * 1975 Sonatine
 * 1968 La source
 * 1957 Square Dance
 * 1958 Stars and Stripes
 * 1975 The Steadfast Tin Soldier
 * 1972 Stravinsky Violin Concerto
 * 1951 Swan Lake (Act 2)
 * 1950 Sylvia Pas de Deux
 * 1947 Symphonie Concertante
 * 1947 Symphony in C
 * 1972 Symphony in Three Movements
 * 1982 Tango
 * 1964 Tarantella
 * 1947 Theme and Variations
 * 1975 Le tombeau de Couperin
 * 1960 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
 * 1941 Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
 * 1970 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
 * 1975 Tzigane
 * 1976 Union Jack
 * 1967 Valse-Fantaisie
 * 1966 Variations
 * 1982 Variations for Orchestra
 * 1974 Variations pour une porte et un soupir
 * 1977 Vienna Waltzes
 * 1980 Walpurgisnacht Ballet
 * 1954 Western Symphony
 * 1970 Who Cares?
 * 1936 Zenobia

For Ballets Russes

 * Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925)
 * Jack in the Box (1926)
 * Pastorale (1926)
 * Barabau (1926)
 * La Chatte (1927)
 * Le Triomphe de Neptune (1927)
 * Apollo (1928)
 * The Prodigal Son (1929)
 * Le Bal (1929)

For Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo

 * Cotillon (1932)
 * Concurrence (1932)
 * Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1932 and 1944)
 * Balustrade (1941)
 * Danses concertantes (1944 and 1972)
 * Song of Norway (1944)
 * Pas de Deux (Grand adagio) (1945)
 * La Sonnambula (1946)
 * The Night Shadow (1946)
 * Raymonda (1946)

For Les Ballets 1933

 * The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
 * Errante (1933)
 * Les Songes (1933)
 * Fastes (1933)

For the American Ballet

 * Alma Mater (1934)
 * Les Songes (Dreams) (1934)
 * Mozartiana (1934)
 * Serenade (1935)
 * Errante (1935)
 * Reminiscence (1935)
 * Jeu de cartes (variously, Card Game or The Card Party) (1937)
 * Le Baiser de la Fée (originally titled The Fairy's Kiss) (1937)

For Broadway

 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
 * Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, a production number for the singing and dancing ensemble
 * Night Flight, a solo for Harriet Hoctor
 * 5 A.M., a number for Josephine Baker and male dancers
 * On Your Toes (1936), music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart; starring Tamara Geva and Ray Bolger. This dramatic ballet served as the climax of this musical production and has subsequently been presented as a stand-alone piece; however, several of the sung numbers in the show featured dance routines as well, notably the title number.
 * Princess Zenobia Ballet (1936)
 * Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1936).
 * Babes in Arms (1937), by Rodgers and Hart
 * I Married an Angel (1938), by Rodgers and Hart; starring Vera Zorina
 * The Boys from Syracuse (1938), by Rodgers and Hart
 * Great Lady (1938), music by Frederick Loewe
 * Keep Off the Grass (1940), a musical revue
 * Louisiana Purchase (1940), music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; with William Gaxton and Vera Zorina
 * Cabin in the Sky (1940), music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John Latouche; starring Ethel Waters and Katherine Dunham, who collaborated with Balanchine on the choreography
 * The Lady Comes Across (1942), by Duke and Latouche; a notable flop
 * Rosalinda (1942), an operetta with music by Johann Strauss
 * The Merry Widow (1943), an operetta with music by Franz Lehár
 * What's Up? (1943), lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
 * Dream with Music (1944), a musical fantasy starring Vera Zorina
 * Song of Norway (1944), an operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg; Balanchine's most successful Broadway show
 * Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston (1945), another flop
 * The Chocolate Soldier (1947), an operetta with music by Oscar Straus
 * Where's Charley? lyrics and music by Frank Loesser, a long-running show starring Ray Bolger
 * Courtin' Time (1951), music and lyrics by Don Walker and Jack Lawrence
 * House of Flowers (1954), music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen; starring Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and Juanita Hall; Balanchine's choreography was rearranged by Herbert Ross before the Broadway opening

For Hollywood

 * The Goldwyn Follies (1938), with Vera Zorina and William Dollar as principal dancers
 * "Romeo and Juliet," with ballet dancers as the Capulets and tap dancers as the Montagues
 * "Water Nymph Ballet," in which Zorina rose from the depths of a pool
 * On Your Toes (1939), the film version of the Broadway show, starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert
 * I Was an Adventuress (1940), starring Vera Zorina
 * Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), a wartime morale booster for military troops
 * "That Old Black Magic," sung by Johnny Johnston, danced by Vera Zorina
 * Follow the Boys (1944), with Vera Zorina and George Raft

For American Ballet Caravan

 * Ballet Imperial (1941; renamed Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1973)
 * Concerto Barocco (1941)

For the Ballet del Teatro de Colón

 * Mozart Violin Concerto (1942)

For Ballet Theatre

 * Waltz Academy (1944)
 * Theme and Variations (1947)

For Ballet Society

 * The Four Temperaments (1946)
 * L'enfant et Les Sortilèges (The Spellbound Child) (1946)
 * Haieff Divertimento (1947)
 * Symphonie Concertante (1947)
 * Orpheus (1948)

For the Paris Opera Ballet

 * Palais de Cristal (1947, in 1948 restaged in Symphony in C)

For Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas

 * Pas de Trois Classique (also known as Minkus Pas de Trois) (1948)

For New York City Ballet

 * La Sonnambula (1946)
 * Bourrée Fantasque (1949)
 * The Firebird (1959; later revised with Jerome Robbins)
 * Sylvia Pas De Deux (1950)
 * Swan Lake (after Lev Ivanov) (1951)
 * La Valse (1951)
 * Harlequinade Pas De Deux (1952)
 * Metamorphoses (1952)
 * Caracole (1952)
 * Scotch Symphony (1952)
 * Valse Fantaisie (1953/1967)
 * The Nutcracker (1954)
 * Ivesiana (1954)
 * Western Symphony (1954)
 * Glinka Pas De Trois (1955)
 * Pas De Dix (1955)
 * Divertimento No. 15 (1956)
 * Allegro Brillante (1956)
 * Agon (1957)
 * Square Dance (1957)
 * Gounod Symphony (1958)
 * Stars and Stripes (a ballet in five "campaigns") (1958)
 * Episodes (1959)
 * Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (1960)
 * Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960)
 * Donizetti Variations (1960)
 * Liebeslieder Walzer (1960)
 * Raymonda Variations (1961)
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)
 * Bugaku (1963)
 * Meditation (1963)
 * Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1963)
 * Harlequinade (1965)
 * Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet (1966)
 * Jewels (1967)
 * Emeralds
 * Rubies
 * Diamonds
 * La Source (1968)
 * Who Cares? (1970)
 * Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 (1970)
 * Stravinsky Festival (1972)
 * Pulcinella (with Jerome Robbins)
 * Stravinsky Violin Concerto
 * Symphony in Three Movements
 * Duo Concertant
 * Lost Sonata
 * Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la fée"
 * Choral Variations on Bach's "Vom Himmel Hoch"
 * Danses Concertantes
 * Scherzo Á La Russe
 * Cortège Hongrois (1973)
 * Coppélia (1974)
 * Variations pour une porte et un soupir (1974)
 * Ravel Festival (1975)
 * Sonatine
 * Tzigane
 * Le tombeau de Couperin
 * Pavane
 * Shéhérazade
 * Gaspard de la Nuit
 * Rapsodie Espagnole
 * The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1975)
 * Chaconne (1976)
 * Union Jack (1976)
 * Vienna Waltzes (1977)
 * Ballo della Regina (1978)
 * Kammermusik No. 2 (1978)
 * Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze (1980)
 * Walpurgisnacht Ballet (1980)
 * Tschaikovsky Festival (1981)
 * Garland Dance from The Sleeping Beauty
 * Mozartiana
 * Stravinsky Centennial Celebration (1982)
 * Élégie

For New York City Opera

 * Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1979)