I'm partial to the Nutcracker myself..

after 15 years of dancing countless nutcrackers, i'm finally to the point of being able to watch it w/out anxieties. i loved loyce houlton's first act ... very dancy; i also love serenade/balanchine; my favorite is kurt jooss' anti-war ballet, the green table

Hi guys I am new to this tribe studied 20 yrs in LA and SF Ballet school. My faves are DON Q and La Sonnombula (Balanchine) TC

Mine will always be: ROMEO AND JULIETTE. No ballet effects me emotionally as much as this one does. And the music is timeless.
Lois

Several: "Etutdes" (via ABT); "Theme and Variations" (via Ballanchine and ABT); "La Fille mal Gardee" (Ashton); "The Dream" (Ashton); "La Valse" (Ashton) (I guess... add all Ashton; almost forgot "Monotones"); "Romeo and Juliet" (w. Fonteyn, of course); Galina Ulanova in "Giselle;" film excerpts of Maya Pleisetskay in "Don Q" (one of the few times dance works on video); anything by the Kirov ballet (for production values and consistently great dancing); "Revelations" by Ailey (O.K. i guess this is "dance," rather than ballet); most of Bejart (when he was working in Brussels); and could I leave out "The Red Shoes." And so much more... (As Hermoine Gingold sang in "Gigi:" "ah, yes, I remember it well...")

Giselle Rocks! It's got a mad scene that ends in public suicide and the whole 2nd act is devoted to dead girls who dance men to death in a graveyard, how goth is that. the musics really cool in the 2nd act also. I also really like Petruska, I love the music form the Moore's cell, I think of it whenever I feel like I'm going insane.

Coppelia.
and "Realm of Light" by Philip Jerry.

I once performed in "A Midsummer Nights Dream." It's a complicated ballet to dance! I love the music by Mendelsohn, and the fact that it's often performed with a brief intermission.

Keep On Dancing!

Mohabee

My favorite ballet would probably be either La Bayadere or Don Quixote, although I love most of the classics. Modern ballet tends to leave me cold.

GISELLE, particularly as performed by Gelsey Kirkland. I had the pleasure years ago, of her guesting with our company and being on stage the same time as her.. she was breathtaking! (so old-school, I know... )