Theme and Variations (ballet)

Theme and Variations
Theme and Variations
	Kansas City Ballet's Tempe Ostergren and Liang Fu in Theme and Variations
Choreographer	George Balanchine
Music	Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Premiere	November 26, 1947; City Center 55 Street Theater
Original ballet company	Ballet Theatre
Created for	Alicia Alonso; Igor Youskevitch;

Theme and Variations is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3. The ballet was made for Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre), and premiered on November 26, 1947, at the City Center 55 Street Theater, with the two leads danced by Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch.

The ballet was well-received and was revived by other ballet companies. In 1970, Balanchine incorporated the choreography of Theme and Variations to Suite No. 3 (now titled Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3),^[a] performed by the New York City Ballet.

^ Macaulay, Alastair (September 25, 2014). "A Four-Work Leap Into the Forefront of Classical Ballet". New York Times.

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[1] Macaulay, Alastair (September 25, 2014). "A Four-Work Leap Into the Forefront of Classical Ballet". New York Times.

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