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New York City Ballet made its first tour to Australia in 1958. Appearing in Sydney and Melbourne the company was brought to Australia by the J. C. Williamson organisation whose advertising asserted:
The visit of the entire New York City Ballet Company, with its principals, soloists and corps de ballet, plus artistic directors, stage and executive staff, is one of the outstanding events in Australian theatre history.
It was the first American classsical ballet company to be seen in Australia. Leading female dancers were Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent and Patricia Wilde. The male ranks were led by Jacques d'Amboise, Nicholas Magallanes, Francisco Moncion and Roy Tobias. The company of forty-six dancers brought a repertoire of twenty-six works including Bourree fantasque, Concerto Barocco, Firebird, Four Temperaments, Scotch Symphony, Serenade, Square Dance, Stars and Stripes, Symphony in C and Western Symphony by George Balanchine; Afternoon of a Faun, The Cage, and Interplay by Jerome Robbins; and Souvenirs by Todd Bollender.
New York City Ballet made its second visit to Australia as part of the 1997 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. The tour by fifty of the company's dancers was part of a Pacific Rim tour, which in turn was part of New York City Ballet's fiftieth anniversary initiative to appear in all fifty of the United States and six continents by the year 2000. The group was led by Helene Alexopoulos, Peter Boal, Albert Evans, Darci Kistler, Philip Neal, Margaret Tracey and Miranda Weese in a repertoire of works by George Balanchine, Peter Martins and Jerome Robbins.
See also: Firebird, The ; Serenade
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