Rehearsal of the New York City Ballet production at the New York City Center.
Filmed for the Lena Robbins Film Archive on November 5-9, 1969 by Gardner Compton and Emile Ardolino.
Choreography: George Balanchine. Music: Peter I. Tchaikowsky. Solo piano: Gordon Boelzner. Second piano: Robert Irving. Performed by Violette Verdy, Conrad Ludlow, and Marnee Morris, with Frank Ohman, Earle Sieveling, Deborah Flomine, Susan Hendl and artists of the New York City Ballet.