American Contemporary Ballet: 'Sapphires'

Choreographer George Balanchine created a series of ballets in the 1960s for jewelry designer Van Cleef & Arpels, all themed around different jewels – diamonds, emeralds, and rubies (some early innovative branded content!). The fourth entry, Sapphires, set to music by Arnold Schoenberg, was never finished. But lucky us, American Contemporary Ballet imagines this unfinished ballet, performing it through the end of the month in celebration of what would be the composer’s 150th birthday.