An American program, staged through ballet

Philadelphia Ballet’s September 10 Wolf Trap program was titled Stars & Stripes Forever. The published selections included Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes and Who Cares?, Robbins’s Fancy Free, and Feld’s Variations on America, connecting the evening with music by American composers.

In the country’s 250th-anniversary year, that program offers a cultural counterpart to the concerts sharing the venue’s season. Its significance here is in the named works and format, not an invented assessment of the dancers. The event page is the record for the advertised program; City Mix has no supplied performance review or production photographs from this date.