School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the training academy for New York City Ballet, founded in 1948. Jointly conceived by choreographer George Balanchine, arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein, and philanthropist Edward Warburg, the school was established to train dancers who would one day perform in a new company under Balanchine’s direction. It was the first step in a grand plan to establish a world-class center for ballet in the United States. A half century later, City Ballet’s choreographer and artistic director, Peter Martins, expanded the training program to include students as young as six years of age. Constrained by the fixed footprint of the SAB’s location in the Rose Building, a 1990s mixed-use structure that also houses facilities and administrative offices for the eleven entities that make up Lincoln Center, the school had to find space for dance studios where none existed.
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