NYCB Presents: Innovators & Icons

Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky’s inventive Voices is led by five female dancers performing intricate solos to an experimental Peter Ablinger score featuring recordings of six notable women speaking in various languages, overlaid with a live solo piano. Also, an ingenious pairing of music and choreography, Jerome Robbins’ in Memory of… casts a haunting spell that reflects the emotional nuances of a violin concerto by modernist composer Alban Berg. The program concludes with Diamonds, one of Balanchine’s supremely beautiful displays of classical dance, a tribute to late 19th- and early 20th-century ballet’s regality as exemplified by the work of the master choreographer Marius Petipa.