Union Jack

Edited by Lincoln Kirstein, photographs by Richard Benson and Martha Swope

1977

To celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of the United States, George Balanchine created a ballet based on British music and dances, military, popular and folk. In Union Jack historic folk dances and marching steps of Great Britain, choreographed by Balanchine for the New York City Ballet, become perpetuated as a rediscovery of national character and dance forms we inherit like language