Set Designer

A Tribute to Balanchine and Wheeldon with Pure and Powerful Dance.

This season, Giant Steps presents two of George Balanchine’s most iconic masterpieces—Apollo and Symphony in C—alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games, which carries the torch forward into the 21st century.

Giant Steps

Royal Danish Opera

These are the opening words used by Chariton of Aphrodisias, who describes himself as “clerk of the lawyer Athenagoras”, in his prose romance of Callirhoe and Chaereas, whose joyous wedding is followed by all manner of conflicts, disasters, abductions and dangers before they are finally reunited.

Kallirhoe

Vienna State Opera

To mark the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birth, we are celebrating his anniversary with the creation of four choreographies of very different styles to four of his most famous compositions.

Ravel Evening

German Oper am Rhein

George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial, like his Theme and Variations, evokes the era of Russia’s Imperial Ballet with its grandeur and elegance.

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Ballet Imperial

Lincoln Center

A Japanese girl sacrifices her heritage for the American dream when a naval officer chooses her for his bride. Her dream is crushed by betrayal when he traps her in the very cage she wishes to escape. She seizes her destiny, and the devastating outcome lingers long after the final note.

Set Designer

Jean-Marc Puissant

Events

Upcoming events

Jul 3 - Aug 29, 2026

Madama Butterfly · Santa Fe Opera

Past events

21 - 26 May, 2026

Giant Steps · Det Kongelige Teater

Oct 18, 2025 - Jan 12, 2026

Kallirhoe · Wiener Staatsoper

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