The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine born Giorgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze (Georgian: გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე Russian: Георгий Мелитонович Баланчивадзе) (January 22 [O. Thirty-nine of his more than four hundred ballets were choreographed to music by Stravinsky. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he expressed music with dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky.