{"id":140934,"date":"2026-02-21T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140934\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:56:09","slug":"the-beat-official-new-york-state-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140934\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beat | Official New York State Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SPAC 60\" data-height=\"113\" data-processed=\"true\" data-width=\"300\" height=\"113\" id=\"plugins_assets_images_6995f3a1f2e04d0aac6c7b73\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SPAC_60_29372c6a-18b1-44c7-8ff8-2603d0eb6575.png\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" width=\"300\"\/>Residency highlighted by A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, George Balanchine\u2019s Serenade, Jerome Robbins\u2019 Opus 19\/The Dreamer, and a new work by NYCB Principal Dancer Tiler Peck<\/p>\n<p>Accessible ticket promotions exclusive to NYCB at SPAC including:\u00a0\u201cKids in Free\u201d extended to 16 years old; $40 under 40 amphitheater tickets, and $99 Family Four packs <\/p>\n<p>Saratoga Springs, NY (February 15, 2026) \u2013 Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) announces its 2026 NEW YORK CITY BALLET (NYCB) residency from July 8-11 as part of its celebratory 60th anniversary season. The residency will feature the full-length story ballet A Midsummer\u2019s Night Dream, which was the first performance presented on the SPAC stage at the venue\u2019s grand opening in July 1966; George Balanchine\u2019s romantic masterpiece Serenade; Jerome Robbins\u2019 Opus 19\/The Dreamer, set to Prokofiev\u2019s feverish concerto; and a new work by NYCB Principal Dancer Tiler Peck, which will have its world premiere as part of NYCB\u2019s 2026 Spring Gala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residency highlighted by A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, George Balanchine\u2019s Serenade, Jerome Robbins\u2019 Opus 19\/The Dreamer, and a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-140934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}