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New York City Ballet
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New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet
(
NYCB
) is a
ballet company
founded in 1948 by choreographer
George Balanchine
and
Lincoln Kirstein
.
Léon Barzin
was the company's first music director. Balanchine and
Jerome Robbins
are considered the founding choreographers of the company. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the
School of American Ballet
, 1934; the
American Ballet
, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into
American Ballet Caravan
, 1941; and directly from the
Ballet Society
, 1946.
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