ON STAGE THIS FALL // An incandescent instance of Balanchine’s distinctive neoclassical style, Divertimento No. 15 shares the buoyancy of its namesake Mozart score despite the demands the footwork makes on its eight lead dancers and eight-person corps. Balanchine’s story of the ballet’s creation for its 1956 premiere at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater reveals both his attitude toward making works for “now” and his love of this particular score: “This ballet is a complete reworking of Caracole, a ballet set to the same music... that was first presented by the New York City Ballet in 1952,” he writes. “Although Caracole had real success when it was first done, we did not dance it for several years and when the dancers and I began to work on a revival in 1956, we found we could remember very little of the original. So many new ballets had intervened that I had to start work all over again! That was not altogether a misfortune, for this score is one I admire most in the world.”⁠ ⁠ See Divertimento No. 15 on the All Balanchine I program, with La Sonnambula and Scotch Symphony, SEP 20-21, 23, 25 mat, and 30. Tap this post in our #linkinbio for tickets and more information.⁠ ⁠ Photo credit: Erin Baiano (@erinbaiano)⁠ ⁠ @alexamax #alexamaxwell @alstonmacgill #alstonmacgill #divertimentono15 #georgebalanchine #balanchine #ballet #dance #nycb #nycballet #newyorkcityballet