The Kennedy Center is throwing a Balanchine festival, featuring six companies dancing 14 ballets. “The festival does not claim to be as comprehensive as the New York City Ballet’s yearlong survey of Balanchine in 1994, or even a collection of seminal works. (His first great work, “Apollo,” is not on the schedule.) Rather, its distinction should lie in providing a new understanding of the Balanchine canon.” – New York Times