Ragtime (I)

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Ragtime (I) is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's 1918 ; with scenery by previously used for Lew Christensen's 1947 work for Ballet Society, ; costumes by Karinska and lighting by . The premiere took place on December 7, 1960, at City Center of Music and Drama, conducted by Robert Irving, as part of a quartet of works titled Jazz Concert, together with dances by Todd Bolender's , Francisco Moncion's Les biches and John Taras' . Balanchine's 1966 Ragtime (II) was also made for City Ballet; his previous ballet to Stravinsky's Ragtime was one of a number of "informal little things" made in St. Petersburg in 1922.^[1]

Original cast[]

• Diana Adams

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