STAGE TUBE: NYC Ballet's Winter Season Features Hard-Working Dancers of the Corps de Ballet

NYC Ballet announces their winter program, with two programs paying tribute to NYCB Founder George Balanchine, including the return of Prodigal Son and Swan Lake, as well as a reprise of his tragic narrative work La Sonnambula.

Stravinsky x Five showcases a quintet of seasoned choreographers who have all employed the composer's dynamic rhythms to great effect. The program includes the NYC premiere of Justin Peck's Scherzo Fantastique, as well as The Cage, Jerome Robbins' feral depiction of natural selection within a community of female insects. Dovetailing the New Combinations program are world premieres from Pontus Lidberg and Justin Peck, presented alongside Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries.

Additional highlights include Peter Martins' grand staging of The Sleeping Beauty, Jerome Robbins' comedic ballet The Concert, and a Broadway-inspired program sure to delight theatregoers with an adaptation of Richard Rodgers' Carousel (A Dance).

In the video below, the NY Times highlights the life and work of 24-year-old rising corps member, Claire Kretzschmar, who will dance in all seven performances and appear in five ballets, sometimes dancing in two roles in a night.

Check out the video below!

Claire Kretzschmar is a member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet. She was born in Glendale, Arizona and began her dance training at the Academy of Dance Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She later studied at the Wake Forest Community Ballet and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. Kretzschmar began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the summers of 2006 through 2009, and enrolled as a full time student in 2009. In November 2010 she became an apprentice with NYCB and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in August 2011.

Also, check out the video below where Ms. Kretzschmar shares her dream role, a major onstage mishap, and the best playlist to set the mood for a dinner party.