Workshop Performances

SAB’s annual Workshop Performances are a public demonstration of the continuing tradition of excellence fostered at the School. Dozens of intermediate and advanced students along with a selection of Children’s Division students participate each year in the School’s Workshop, which culminates in three spring performances at Lincoln Center 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.

2025 Performance Dates and Theater information

Saturday, June 7, 2025
2:00 PM
8:00 PM

All tickets: $70

Online ticketing is no longer available for this event. Tickets will be available to purchase in person at the Box Office of the Peter Jay Sharp Theater beginning one hour before each performance. 


Monday, June 9, 2025
Workshop Benefit
7:00 PM

Performance Only Tickets: $125

 

Peter Jay Sharp Theater

All Workshop Performances take place at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School, 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.

Click here for directions to Lincoln Center.

2025 Performance Program

Raymonda Variations

Music by Alexander Glazounov
Choreography by George Balanchine

Cortège Hongrois

(Excerpt)
Music by Alexander Glazounov

Choreography by George Balanchine

Schubert Symphony

(June 7 Performances only)
Music by Franz Schubert

Choreography by Laine Habony
(World Premiere)

Glass Pieces

Photo by Erin Baiano, courtesy NYCB

(Third Movement)
Music by Philip Glass
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
(Workshop Premiere)

Buying Workshop Tickets

Tickets for SAB’s Workshop Performances are no longer available online. Tickets may still be purchased in person at the box office of the Peter Jay Sharp Theater beginning one hour before each performance.

Note that SAB operates a pop-up box office only on the performance days. Please do not contact the Juilliard box office for tickets. 

For questions, please contact workshop@sab.org.

Header image by Paul Kolnik from the 2012 Workshop Performances; Cortège Hongrois choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust

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