Choreographics Collection

The Choreographics logo refers to both a famous dance and a famous drawing:

The reaching dancer comes from George Balanchine's oldest surviving ballet, Apollo (1927). Apollo, the Greek god of the arts is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal male in Greek culture. In Balanchine's ballet, Apollo favors Terpsichore, the muse of song and dance.

The circle and the square come from Leonard DaVinci's Vitruvian Man (1490), a drawing based on anatomical studies of the human body that depicts the ideal proportions of man. The man shown in two positions rest perfectly inside a circle and a square, shapes long thought of as symbols of the divine and the earthly, respectively.

Great dance is realized when mortal experience is touched by divine inspiration. Choreographics celebrates these dances that have transcended time.