Wendy Whelan and Benjamin Millepied in the world premiere of Concerto DSCH. Photo: Paul Kolnik.

Olivier Wevers and Louise Nadeau of Pacific Northwest Ballet in George Balanchine’s Agon. Photograph: Angela Sterling.

Ashley Bouder and Jonathan Stafford in George Balanchine’s “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto no 2”. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.

Wendy Whelan in George Balanchine’s “Mozartiana”. Photograph: Paul Kolnik

New York City Ballet in “Everywhere We Go” at the David H. Koch Theater. Photograph: Andrea Mohin

New York City Ballet Company members in "Year of the Rabbit," at David H. Koch Theater. Photograph: Paula Lobo.

"Firebird" with Jonathan Stafford and Teresa Reichlen. Photograph: Julieta Cervantes

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Russian Seasons”, danced by New York City Ballet. Photograph: Julieta Cervantes.

Sarah Lamb and Carlos Acosta of the Royal Ballet in Jerome Robbins’s “Afternoon of a Faun”. Photograph: Peter Mcdiarmid, Getty Images.

New York City Ballet in the opening image of George Balanchine’s Serenade. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.

Sara Mearns and Charles Askegard in George Balanchine’s “Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze”. Photograph: Paul Kolnik

New York City Ballet in George Balanchine’s Emeralds. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.

Yvonne Borree, Ashley Bouder, Megan Fairchild, with Nikolaj Hübbe as the muses and Apollo in George Balanchine’s Apollo. Photograph: Paul Kolnik.