Gelsey Kirkland created the lead role in Balanchine's revival of what ballet by Igor Stravinsky?
Gelsey Kirkland Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) is an American ballerina. Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age fifteen, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted to soloist in 1969 and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in many of the great twentieth century ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor including Balanchine's revival of "The Firebird", Robbins' "Goldberg Variations", and Tudor's "The Leaves are Fading". Balanchine re-choreographed his version of Stravinsky's "The Firebird" specifically for her. She left the New York City Ballet to join the American Ballet Theatre in 1974.
La guirlande de Campra (ballet) La guirlande de Campra is a ballet made at the New York City Ballet by ballet master John Taras to eponymous 1952 music composed by Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Daniel-Lesur, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Francis Poulenc, Henri Sauguet and Germaine Tailleferre, after a theme from André Campra's 1717 opera "Camille, reine des Volsques". The premiere took place December 1, 1966 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.