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DESCRIPTION:Jul 8-11\, 2026\nGeorge Balanchine’s witty and radiant A Mids
 ummer Night’s Dream (1962) was the first completely original full-length
  ballet that he made for the New York City Ballet. It is beloved\, not lea
 st for its sets by David Hays and costumes by Karinska\, which bring a shi
 mmer of Botticelli\, a frisson of fairy wings. Balanchine loved the music 
 by Mendelssohn\, and he loved the poetics in Shakespeare’s play\, especi
 ally Bottom’s attempt to describe his experience as an ass\, a spell he 
 thinks was a dream: “The eye of man hath not heard\, the ear of man hath
  not seen\, man’s hand is not able to taste\, his tongue to conceive\, n
 or his heart to report what my dream was.” Such synesthesia\, a phenomen
 on in which the senses are crossed\, is not unlike a ballet\, or as the wr
 iter Jonathan Cott said to Balanchine\, “So the inexplicability of dance
  is similar to Bottom’s vision.” Balanchine replied\, “Absolutely.
 ” His Midsummer tells the story impeccably\, but with glorious humanity.
  And in Act Two\, where everyone pairs up for marriage\, the Divertissemen
 t pas de deux has no match for tenderness. An embodiment of love\, it is 
 “super hushed and intimate\,” says the ballerina Tiler Peck. “You al
 most feel like you’re at church.”
LOCATION:Saratoga Performing Arts Center\, 108 Avenue of the Pines Saratoga
  Springs\, NY 12866\, United States
SUMMARY:New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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