But even here, his approach to the classical vocabulary made for the inverted rather than the conventional.
Ballet's classical vocabulary is always visible, no matter how extended or distorted.
The work uses classical ballet vocabulary, but the form varies a great deal from the 19th century classics.
If you are interested in the classical vocabulary, it is dazzlingly on view here.
For Balanchine, the classical vocabulary was a language that had no century or national connotation.
Throughout the program, ballet's classical vocabulary was dominant, but never used in the same way.
You have to appreciate the classical ballet vocabulary to like "Prism."
Both are dramatic and make inventive use of the classical vocabulary.
They avoid any detail found in the traditional classical vocabulary.
Each step can be found in the classical vocabulary.