Balanchine at Both Ends: City Ballet Frames Adrian Danchig-Waring's Last Night on October 18

New York City Ballet has set October 18 as the night Adrian Danchig-Waring dances with the company for the final time, and the program has been built with the proportion of a well-made house. Two Balanchine works stand at either end of the evening, the opening and the close given over to the choreographer whose name the company rests on. Between them sit two very different rooms. One is a duet for two men choreographed by Lar Lubovitch, a work credited with opening new ground. The other is a new piece from Pam Tanowitz, made expressly for this one occasion. For a New York audience, the appeal is the structure itself: the house style holding the frame while something historic and something brand new fill the middle. It is a farewell arranged the way this city arranges its best evenings, with the foundation visible and the center left for the person being honored.

With reporting from Surface.