Ballet

Works set to music by Bach

3 upcoming performances in New York

At New York City Ballet, *Works set to music by Bach* frames Johann Sebastian Bach’s Baroque scores as architectural blueprints for movement. The program places the company at Lincoln Center in dialogue with Bach’s orchestral and solo writing, using contemporary choreography to trace how counterpoint and formal balance translate into bodies in space. Bach has long been part of NYCB’s lineage, from Balanchine’s foundational repertory onward, and this evening treats that history as a living method rather than a museum piece. One clear effect is how the music’s rigor encourages choreography that favors structure over ornament.