Neoclassical ballet
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Neoclassical ballet is the style of 20th-century classical ballet exemplified by the works of George Balanchine. The term "neoclassical ballet" appears in the 1920s with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in response to the excesses of romanticism and post-romantic modernism.
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Significant choreographers and works
Although much of Balanchine's work epitomized the genre, some choreographers like the British Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan were also great neoclassical choreographers.
- George Balanchine
- Apollo (1928)
- The Prodigal Son (1929)
- Serenade (1934)
- Concerto Barocco (1941)
- Symphony in C (1947)
- Agon (1957)
- Jewels (1967)
- Serge Lifar
- Les Créatures de Prométhée (1929)
- Le Spectre de la rose (personal version) (1931)
- L'Après-midi d'un faune (personal version) (1935)
- Icare (1935)
- Istar (1941)
- Suite en Blanc (1943)
- Frederick Ashton
- Symphonic Variations (1946)
- Cinderella (1948)
- Sylvia (1952)
- Romeo and Juliet (1956)
- Ondine (1958)
- La Fille Mal Gardee (1960)
- The Dream (1964)
- Roland Petit
- Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
- Carmen (1949)
- Notre-Dame de Paris (1965)
- Proust, ou Les intermittences du coeur (1974)
- Clavigo (1999)
- Kenneth MacMillan
- Romeo and Juliet (1965)
- Anastasia (1967)
- L'histoire de Manon (1974)
- Jerome Robbins
- Dances at a Gathering (1969)
- John Cranko
- Onegin (1965)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1969)
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