Bayou (ballet)

This article is about Balanchine's 1952 ballet. For other uses, see Bayou (disambiguation).

Bayou is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson's Acadian Songs and Dances (1947). The premiere took place on 21 February 1952 at City Center of Music and Drama, New York.

Original Cast

Francisco Moncion
Doris Breckenridge
Melissa Hayden

Hugh Laing
Diana Adams
Herbert Bliss

Reviews

NY Times by John Martin, 22 February 1952

Articles

NY Times by Joseph Carman, 28 February 1999

External links

Balanchine Foundation website

Balanchine Trust website

NYCB website

Ballets by George Balanchine

A la Françaix A Midsummer Night's Dream Agon Allegro Brillante Apollo (stagings) Le baiser de la fée Le Bal Ballade Ballo della Regina Bayou Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Bourrée fantasque Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet Bugaku Chaconne (stagings) Le chant du rossignol Circus Polka Clarinade Concertino Concerto Barocco Coppélia Cortège Hongrois Divertimento Brillante Divertimento from “Le Baiser De La Fée” Divertimento No. 15 Don Quixote Donizetti Variations Duo Concertant Élégie L'enfant et les sortilèges Episodes (stagings) Etude for Piano The Firebird The Four Temperaments (stagings) Garland Dance Gounod Symphony Haieff Divertimento Harlequinade Hungarian Gypsy Airs Ivesiana Jeu de cartes Jewels (stagings) Kammermusik No. 2 Liebeslieder Walzer (stagings) Meditation Metamorphoses Metastaseis and Pithoprakta Monumentum pro Gesualdo (stagings) Movements for Piano and Orchestra Mozartiana Noah and the Flood The Nutcracker Orpheus Pas de Dix Pas de Trois (Glinka) Pas de Trois (Minkus) Pavane The Prodigal Son Pulcinella Ragtime I Ragtime II Raymonda Variations Requiem Canticles Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze Scherzo à la russe Scotch Symphony Serenade The Seven Deadly Sins Slaughter on Tenth Avenue La Sonnambula Sonatine La source Square Dance Stars and Stripes The Steadfast Tin Soldier Stravinsky Violin Concerto Swan Lake Sylvia Pas de Deux Symphonie Concertante Symphony in C Symphony in Three Movements Tango Tarantella (stagings) Theme and Variations Le tombeau de Couperin Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 Tzigane Union Jack La valse Valse-Fantaisie Variations Variations for Orchestra Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir Vienna Waltzes Walpurgisnacht Ballet Western Symphony (stagings) Who Cares? (stagings) Zenobia

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