FLASH FOOTAGE // It's Jerome Robbins' 100th birthday today and what better way to celebrate than with his very first ballet, Fancy Free? In this footage from our Short Stories performance, Joseph Gordon takes a solo turn as one of the footloose sailors on shore leave. There's one more chance to see Fancy Free on our Short Stories program along with West Side Story Suite and George Balanchine's Prodigal Son OCT 13: nycballet.com/season-tickets/18-19-season/fall/oct-13-2018-eve-short-stories.aspx.

Fancy Free returns for a spring encore in May during the Masters at Work: Balanchine & Robbins III program, after the revival of Robbins' Brandenburg and Balanchine's Black & White masterpiece, Agon. Reserve your seats today at nycballet.com/balanchinerobbins3spring | New York City Ballet

Here’s a peek at the iconic bottle dance from Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse! Playing now–Jan 7. | Playbill

Stephanie Saland and Joseph Duell, “Fancy Free”, 1986 broadcast. Choreography: Jerome Robbins. | Vanessa Carlton

Principal Dancer Joseph Gordon and Soloist Alexa Maxwell saunter through a pas de deux in Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free. See Robbins' first ballet alongside his last, Brandenburg, on one program during Masters at Work: Balanchine & Robbins III: nycballet.com/balanchinerobbins3spring | New York City Ballet