Winter Replay: Principal Dancers Chun Wai Chan and Tiler Peck are Alone Together in the so-named movement from Justin Peck's Copland Dance Episodes. If you missed Peck's evening-length world premiere this winter, you can reserve tickets to see it during Spring performances now: nycballet.com/newpeckspring | New York City Ballet

On this day in 1942, Aaron Copland’s ballet “Rodeo” premiered at The Metropolitan Opera House. The original ballet was choreographed by Agnes de Mille for the the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. De Mille herself played the lead, and the premiere received 22 curtain calls. In what is considered one of the earliest examples of a truly American ballet, “Rodeo” combines the exuberance of a Broadway musical with the disciplines of classical ballet. Copland arranged the music as a symphonic suite for orc