The tour featured ballets from SFB's New Works Festival, the finalé of their Spring 2008 season, which featured over the course of three consecutive nights premières of ten new ballets by ten major choreographers.

However, the cover design for the evening's program was an abstraction by Brice Marden, which, with its web of lines, seemed appropriate for a company that features intricate abstract ballets.

In the autumn, when the company features new ballets, he said, it can be impossible to predict what the content of a premiere will be or the response to it.

And the repertory features contemporary ballets by many choreographers.

But Mr. Duell is interested in a creative company, and Saturday night's program at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College featured new ballets by several choreographers.

Their success prompted her to found the Chicago Opera Ballet in 1956, a touring company that featured ballets inspired by operas and operettas.

It features plays, ballets, art showcases, and musical performances throughout the year.

Tomorrow's performances feature ballets that range from the familiar to the new.

Because Tchaikovsky died a century ago and the Boston Ballet is now 30 years old, Bruce Marks, the troupe's artistic director, decided that an anniversary season featuring ballets to music by Tchaikovsky would be timely and festive.

She performed briefly with American Ballet Theater before joining the Paris-based de Cuevas company, the first European troupe to feature ballets by American choreographers as well as American dancers.