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A rare opportunity to see some of the greatest dancers in the world today, Danses Concertantes is an intimate programme set to live chamber music from principals and soloists of New York City Ballet. The programme exemplifies the Balanchine legacy that stresses the close relationship between dance and music and includes Balanchine's own collaboration with Stravinsky's Duo Concertant - celebrating its 30th anniversary this year - which has the dancers joined on stage by the musicians; they dance, mirroring the music and each other and at times stop to listen to the music. The programme also includes a newly commissioned piece by Benjamin Millepied, and the acclaimed Polyphonia by British-born choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, the most recent inheritor of the Balanchine tradition. Set to music by Ligeti, this was a huge hit at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival. A fourth piece is yet to be announced.