[1] In 1974, at the school's annual workshop performance, she danced excerpts from Danilova's staging of Petipa's Paquita.
[1] Within a few years, she started being cast in principal and solo roles, several by George Balanchine, including the first movement in his Tschaikovsky Suite No.
[7] In 1981, she originated a role in Peter Martins' Suite From Histoire du Soldat,[8] then was promoted to soloist that spring.
[7] Later that year, at the company's Tchaikovsky Festival, she originated roles for Jerome Robbins and Joseph Duell, in Piano Pieces and Introduction and Fugue respectively.
[1][12] She danced lead roles in various Balanchine ballets, including Agon, Serenade, Swan Lake,[4] Chaconne,[13] Jewels, Mozartiana,[14] Union Jack,[15] Apollo, Symphony in C, Liebeslieder Walzer[16] Vienna Waltzes, Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze,[2] Western Symphony,[17] Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet,[18] Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir,[19] and A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania.
[29] Calegari is married to Bart Cook, also a New York City Ballet principal dancer.