The first version, a pas de deux, premiered on April 28, 1948 at the City Center of Music and Drama, during a Ballet Society performance, with dancers Tanaquil Le Clercq and Pat McBride, and violist Emanuel Vardi.
[2] The second version is a solo which premiered on July 15, 1966 at the Philharmonic Hall, performed by dancer Suzanne Farrell and violist Jesse Levine, in a program about Stravinsky directed by Lukas Foss.
[3] The last version, again with Farrell, premiered on June 13, 1982 at the New York State Theater,[4] as part of NYCB's Stravinsky Centennial Celebration, with Warren Laffredo playing the viola on stage.
Artistic director of the festival Damian Woetzel learned the choreography via tapes of Farrell, then taught it to Körbes.
In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the festival streamed video of the 2012 performance online.