The Kennedy Center's Open House Arts Festival
Washington, DC
September 13, 2008

Join us during the Kennedy Center’s 2008 Open House Festival. The company will give two performances in the newly renovated Eisenhower Theater featuring a range of Balanchine’s extraordinary repertoire including the classic Apollo.

Fall for Dance Festival
City Center Main Stage
September 25, 2008

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet will make its New York City debut in the ten-day Fall for Dance Festival. The Company will perform a Balanchine Preservation Initiative piece, Pithoprakta (Balanchine/Xenakis). The work has not been performed in New York for over forty years.

The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater
Washington, DC
October 8-12, 2008

All Balanchine Program
(Oct 8, 9, 11 at 8 p.m.; Oct 12 at 2:30 p.m.)
Liebeslieder Walzer (Balanchine/Brahms)
Ragtime* (Balanchine/Stravinsky)
Episodes (Balanchine/von Webern) in Artistic Partnership with Ballet Austin

"The Balanchine Couple"
(Oct 10 & 12 at 8 p.m.; Oct 11 at 2:30 p.m.)
Narrated by Suzanne Farrell, to include pas de deux from Apollo, La Sonnambula, “The Unanswered Question” from Ivesiana, La Valse, Agon, Meditation, Pas de Mauresque from Don Quixote, Diamonds, and Stars and Stripes

* The Balanchine Preservation Initiative, a project of The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, is produced with the knowledge and cooperation of The George Balanchine Trust.