“Beginner Ballet Barre Basics | Learn Balanchine At Home | Guided Pliés | Lessons with Lisa” Welcome to Balanchine technique! This is a guided barre for beginning level ballet students of all ages! In this class, we learn more about pliés, and how to add them to a step with music and with one arm at the barre. Feel free to follow along as we apply what we’ve learned to music. This is also great for intermediate dancers focused on pivoting to Balanchine technique, or dancers who are returning fro

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Symphony In Three Movements is one of George Balanchine’s most iconic “leotard ballets.” The ballet is a complex and bold work that perfectly personifies Balanchine’s relationship to Stravinsky’s music. “I like Stravinsky's music,” Balanchine once said. “It is so strict, so solid. It never comes apart. You cannot improvise upon it. It's built like mathematics.” See Symphony In Three Movements this spring: nycballet.com/balanchinemeetspeck | New York City Ballet