NYC Ballet, Which Begins Engagement at Center on Oct. 14, Announces Casting

New York City Ballet has announced casting for its Oct. 14-24 engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

* Oct. 14, 8 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty” (Peter Martins, after Petipa/Tchaikovsky): Darci Kistler (Aurora); Damian Woetzel (Prince Desire); Merrill Ashley (Carabosse); Wendy Whelan (Lilac Fairy).

* Oct. 15, 8 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: Kyra Nichols, Lindsay Fischer, Teresa Reyes, Maria Calegari.

* Oct. 16, 2 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: Nichol Hlinka, Peter Boal, Deborah Wingert, Lourdes Lopez.

* Oct. 16, 8 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: Kistler, Ben Huys, Ashley, Wendy Whelan.

* Oct. 17, 2 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: same as Oct. 15.

* Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: Hlinka, Boal, Ashley, Lopez.

* Oct. 19, 8 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: Kistler, Huys, Wingert, Kathleen Tracey.

* Oct. 20, 8 p.m.: “Sleeping Beauty”: Nichols, Fischer, Ashley, Calegari.

* Oct. 22, 8 p.m.:

“Serenade”(Balanchine/Tchaikovsky): Nichols, Philip Neal, Melinda Roy.

“Agon” (Balanchine/Stravinsky): Kistler, Fischer.

“Who Cares?” (Balanchine/Gershwin): Nikolaj Hubbe, Hlinka, Lopez. To be announced.

* Oct. 23, 2 p.m.:

“Bourree Fantasque” (Balanchine/Chabrier): Kistler, Woetzel, Nichols, Neal, Hlinka, Boal.

“Sylvia Pas de Deux” (Balanchine/Delibes): Nichols, Hubbe.

“Symphony in Three Movements” (Balanchine/Stravinsky): Whelan, Jock Soto, Katrina Killian.

“Symphony in C” (Balanchine/Bizet): Lourdes, Woetzel, Kistler.

* Oct. 23, 8 p.m.:

“Swan Lake” Act II (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky”: Nichols, Neal.

“Agon”: Kistler, Fischer.

“Symphony in C”: Lopez, Woetzel, Whelan.

* Oct. 24, 2 p.m.:

“Swan Lake” Act II: Kistler, Huys.

“Bourree Fantasque”: Whelan, Tom Gold, Calegari, Fischer, Killian, Boal.

“Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux” (Balanchine): Nichols, Woetzel.

“Who Cares?”: Hubbe, Hlinka, Stacey Calvert, To be announced.

* Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.:

“Serenade” : Nichols, Neal, Roy.

“Symphony in Three Movements”: Kistler, Soto, Killian.

“Who Cares?”: same as Oct. 22.

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