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Happy birthday Balanchine! The GBF Video Archives celebrates Balanchine with ongoing coaching sessions capturing the pas...
01/23/2026

Happy birthday Balanchine! The GBF Video Archives celebrates Balanchine with ongoing coaching sessions capturing the passing down of what keeps Balanchine’s ballets alive for decades.

Photographs by Costas
Layouts courtesy of for the GBF’s “In Balanchine’s Steps” book

11/20/2025

Grateful to have collaborated with so many incredible artists as part of the GBF Video Archives over the years. “In Balanchine’s Steps” captures these special moments from coaching sessions in photographs and quotes.

More information in bio!

Our new book, IN BALANCHINE’S STEPS: How The George Balanchine Foundation Preserves His Genius, is filled with gorgeous ...
08/01/2025

Our new book, IN BALANCHINE’S STEPS: How The George Balanchine Foundation Preserves His Genius, is filled with gorgeous photos. This important record of Balanchine being coached is now available on Amazon.
Photo by Costas
Adam Luders coaches Russell Janzen and Joseph Gordon in George Balanchine’s ORPHEUS.

Our new book has been published! IN BALANCHINE’S STEPS: How the George Balanchine Foundation Preserves His Genius is a s...
07/24/2025

Our new book has been published! IN BALANCHINE’S STEPS: How the George Balanchine Foundation Preserves His Genius is a stunning collection of photographs of our Video Archives by the renowned dance photographer Costas, with additional photos by Brian Rushton, accompanied by short essays written by a host of dance luminaries.

Get your copy today on Amazon!

Thank you to the incomparable .reynolds.56232 who conceived and endowed the Video Archives project back in 1995 and directed its work for decades. designed the book and edited the photos; Mindy Aloff elicited and edited the short essays.

Join us tomorrow for our two events celebrating Stanley Williams at . Our events may be sold out, but we welcome you to...
04/27/2025

Join us tomorrow for our two events celebrating Stanley Williams at . Our events may be sold out, but we welcome you to join the standby line for either our 1pm class demo or 6pm discussion.

These events will not be live streamed but they will be recorded and will later be available for viewing.

📷 by Michaël Ferron

Join us for two free programs, hosted at on April 28 celebrating Stanley Williams.1pm - Live demonstration of Stanley W...
03/26/2025

Join us for two free programs, hosted at on April 28 celebrating Stanley Williams.

1pm - Live demonstration of Stanley Williams class combinations, led by Peter Stark with musical accompaniment from

6pm - Panel discussion, moderated by the incredible .harss with Helgi Tomasson, Peter Boal and Robert Weiss

You don’t want to miss these events! Links to tickets and more information from our website:
Balanchine.org/news-events

Celebrating this Halloween with a George O’Lantern carved by the GBF’s board member Silas Farley!
10/31/2024

Celebrating this Halloween with a George O’Lantern carved by the GBF’s board member Silas Farley!

06/10/2024

Continuing the celebration with this coaching excerpt demonstrating the "dangerous" steps that should be thrilling to watch even 90 years after its creation!

Dancers: Megan Fairchild, Ask la Cour, Sterling Hyltin, Rebecca Krohn
Pianist: Nancy McDill
Coaching recorded September 19, 2016



Choreography by George Balanchine
© The George Balanchine Trust

06/10/2024

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the first performance of Serenade at The School of American Ballet with this interview from our Video Archives series listening to Patricia Wilde speak with interviewer Nancy Reynolds about the ballet.

Join the celebrations, led by Lauryn Johnson by posting a photo of yourself dancing Serenade with the tag

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