Sun, May 10
|202 Galisteo St
Elizabeth Kendall, Balanchine Finds His America: A Tale of Love Lost and Ballet Reborn,
"Balanchine Finds His America" offers a dramatic narrative closeup of the early, unexamined years in Balanchine’s life, so crucial to understanding how the young immigrant ballet choreographer set about becoming one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. In conversation with Catherine Oppenheimer.
Date, Time & Location
May 10, 2026, 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
202 Galisteo St, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Balanchine Finds His America opens in 1933, when the 29-year-old George Balanchine arrived in the United States with an extraordinary background: he had trained as a child in Russia’s imperial dance academy, absorbed the utopian ideals of the Russian revolution, and spent nine years honing his craft in culturally rich yet volatile interwar Europe.
On a new continent, however, his career seemed to flounder. His sponsors had their own vision of a modern ballet steeped in American folk art. The acclaimed Ballets Russe had just arrived to dazzle U.S. audiences with European exotica. And Balanchine’s loneliness, ill health and obsessive love affairs with young dancers threatened his stability and talent. Against all odds, he began to envision a new, modern language for American…