2024 Summer Brochure

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Celebrating 90 Years of Excellence 1934

1948

1959

New York City Ballet debuts at

With funding from the Ford Foundation,

Lincoln Kirstein open the School of

New York City Center with dancers

SAB is able to expand its scholarship

American Ballet on Madison Avenue

almost entirely made up of students

program and establish a precursor

in New York City, a first step to

from the School of American Ballet.

to the National Audition Tour.

shaping the future of ballet in America.

After some initial failed attempts,

Balanchine and select faculty traveled

SAB has long since been considered

Balanchine and Kirstein’s dream

across the United States to recruit

one of the world’s leading ballet

of establishing an American ballet

students nationally, further expanding

training academies.

company is realized. Since then, SAB

the School’s reach and influence

has been the official school of New

beyond New York City.

Swope

On January 2, George Balanchine and

York City Ballet, providing highly Swope

trained dancers for what has become

Swope

America’s largest ballet company.

1997 SAB establishes an annual Student Choreography Workshop, allowing students to explore the art of choreography by creating new works on their peers. The School has since enhanced this program offering resources to further encourage exploration of choreography. This workshop has inspired the choreographic talents of some of today’s leading choreographers, most notably Justin Peck, Lauren Lovette and Gianna Reisen.

2000’s

Throughout the 2000’s, SAB increases its commitment to diversifying the student body. In 2009, SAB begins holding free family friendly performances in NYC neighborhoods. And in 2012, SAB launches a formal diversity, equity and inclusion initiative with the ultimate goal of impacting the diversity of professional stages nationwide. This ongoing commitment permeates all facets of the School and leads to the establishment of a full time staff role dedicated to DEI in 2012 and the start of SAB’s National Visiting Fellows and Principal Guest Teacher programs.

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