Ragtime (I)

1960 ballet by George Balanchine

This article is about George Balanchine's 1960 ballet. For Balanchine's 1966 ballet to the same music, see Ragtime (II).

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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 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments ; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen's 1947 work for Ballet Society, Blackface ; costumes by Karinska and lighting by David Hays. 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 Creation of the World , Francisco Moncion's Les biches and John Taras' Ebony Concerto . 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]