Workshop Performances

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of advanced students and a selection of Children’s Division students participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater with costumes, lights, and live orchestra.

The ballets presented include standards from the Balanchine repertory, Bournonville excerpts, Jerome Robbins’ ballets, and other classical masterworks. In recent years, the Workshop program has featured more contemporary ballets by Justin Peck, William Forsythe, and Gianna Reisen. The School also commissions new choreography made especially on SAB students.

Several notable alumni made their pre-professional debut at SAB’s Workshop Performances including Wendy Whelan, Sara Mearns, Mira Nadon, Taylor Stanley, Robert Fairchild, Paloma Herrera, Tiler Peck and SAB’s own artistic director Jonathan Stafford. We invite you to join us for the annual spring performances and be introduced to the talented dancers of the future.

2023 Performance Dates and Theater information

Saturday, June 3, 2023
2:00 PM
8:00 PM

All Tickets: $70

Monday, June 5, 2023
Workshop Performance Benefit

7:00 PM

Performance-only tickets: $125

Online ordering for our Workshop Performances has closed.  Tickets are still available for all performances and can be purchased in person at the Juilliard Box Office window starting one hour before each performance on Saturday, June 3 and Monday, June 5. For more information about the June 5th Workshop Benefit, please visit this link.

Peter Jay Sharp Theater

All Workshop Performances take place at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 West 65th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam). The theater entrance is at street level through the main entrance to the Juilliard School. Underground parking is available adjacent to the theater entrance.

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2023 Performance Program

La Source

Music By Léo Delibes
Choreography by George Balanchine

Coppélia (Excerpts from Act III)

Music by Léo Delibes
Choreography by George Balanchine
& Alexandra Danilova

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
(Third Movement)

Music by Johannes Brahms
Choreography by George Balanchine

Napoli
(Pas de Six and Tarantella)

Music by Edvard Helsted
Choreography by August Bournonville

Buying Workshop Tickets

Online ordering for our Workshop Performances has closed.  Tickets are still available for all performances and can be purchased in person at the Juilliard Box Office window starting one hour before each performance on Saturday, June 3 and Monday, June 5. For more information about the June 5th Workshop Benefit, please visit this link.

Header image by Rosalie O’Connor from the 2022 Workshop Performances; Symphony in C choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust

Learn about our Workshop Benefit