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Dances At A Gathering
''Dances at a Gathering'' is a ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins to music by Frédéric Chopin, with costumes designed by Joe Eula. The ballet premiered on May 22, 1969, at the New York State Theater, performed by the New York City Ballet. Production ''Dances at a Gathering'' is the first ballet Robbins created for the New York City Ballet (NYCB) in years, after he worked on Broadway theatre. He first planned to make a pas de deux for Patricia McBride and Edward Villella, but it was eventually expanded to five couples. According to NYCB, after George Balanchine saw 25 minutes of the ballet, he said: " ke more, make it like popcorn", so Robbins enlarged the ballet to an hour long. With costumes by Joe Eula and lighting by Thomas Skelton, the ballet had a gala preview on May 8, 1969, before premiering on May 22. Robbins dedicated the ballet to lighting designer Jean Rosenthal, who had died on May 1. Following the premiere, there were many speculations regarding the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his numerous stage productions were ''On the Town (musical), On the Town'', ''Peter Pan (1954 musical), Peter Pan'', ''High Button Shoes'', ''The King and I'', ''The Pajama Game'', ''Bells Are Ringing (musical), Bells Are Ringing'', ''West Side Story'', ''Gypsy (musical), Gypsy'', and ''Fiddler on the Roof''. Robbins was a five-time Tony Award-winner and a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. He received two Academy Awards, including the 1961 Academy Award for Best Director with Robert Wise for ''West Side Story (1961 film), West Side Story'' and a special Academy Honorary Award for his choreographic achievements on film. A documentary about Robbins's life and work, ''Something to Dance About'', featuring excerpts from his journals, archival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Opera Ballet
The Paris Opera Ballet () is a French ballet company that is an integral part of the Paris Opera. It is the oldest national ballet company, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it. It is still regarded as one of the four most prominent ballet companies in the world, together with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg and the Royal Ballet in London.Pourquoi les ballets de l'Opéra de Paris font partie des spectacles favoris des fêtes article by Martine Robert, 27 December 2013, Les Echos. The position of director of dance is currently vacant, but [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Seymour
Lynn Seymour CBE (born 8 March 1939) is a Canadian-born retired ballerina, choreographer, and director. Early career She was born in Wainwright, Alberta, as Berta Lynn Springbett in a Canadian family of Scottish descent, and studied ballet in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1953, she was auditioned by Frederick Ashton and given a scholarship to London's Sadler's Wells Ballet School. There she was in Winifred Edwards's class with Antoinette Sibley and Marcia Haydée. In 1956, she joined Covent Garden Opera Ballet, then moved to the Touring Royal Ballet in 1957 and a year later to the main company of the Royal Ballet as a soloist dancer, becoming a principal in 1959. Her first created role was the Adolescent in Kenneth MacMillan's study of Anna Frank's diary, ''The Burrow'' (1958), that gained her into prominence. Her lyrical technique, her unconventional style and the very intense dramatic powers were developed through a wide range of roles MacMillan started to regurarly ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Mason
Dame Monica Mason (born 6 September 1941) is a former ballet dancer, teacher, and artistic director of The Royal Ballet. In more than fifty years with the company, she established a reputation as a versatile performer, a skilled rehearsal director, and a capable administrator. Early life and training Monica Margaret Mason was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, into a family of British ancestry. She studied ballet from a young age with Ruth Inglestone, Reina Berman, and Frank Staff in her home city and, later, with Nesta Brooking in London. As an advanced student, she entered the Royal Ballet School in 1956, where she continued her education in both dance and academics. Performing career Taken into the '' corps'' of the Royal Ballet in 1958, Mason was, at 16, the company's youngest member. She soon caught the eye of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, who had been commissioned to create yet another dance version of '' The Rite of Spring'', set to Igor Stravinsky's score that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Connor
Laura Connor is a British former ballet dancer with The Royal Ballet. Career She was a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. In 1974, Connor danced in the original cast of MacMillan's ''Manon'' in London and New York. In 1977, she danced Snowflake in ''The Nutcracker''. In 1978, she created the role of Mitzi Caspar in ''Mayerling''. Connor went on to become a ballet teacher. In 2017, Connor was on the judging panel for English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer Award. Personal life She was married to fellow principal dancer Nicholas Johnson Nicholas Johnson (born September 23, 1934) is an American academic and lawyer. He wrote ''How to Talk Back to Your Television Set'' and was a Federal Communications Commission commissioner from 1966 to 1973. He is retired from teaching at the Un ... (1947-2007), and they had a son, Alexander. References British ballerinas 20th-century British ballet dancers Principal dancers of The Royal Ballet Year of birth missing (living peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois. It became the resident ballet company of the Royal Opera House in 1946, and has purpose-built facilities within these premises. It was granted a royal charter in 1956, becoming recognised as Britain's flagship ballet company. The Royal Ballet was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century, and continues to be one of the world's most famous ballet companies to this day, generally noted for its artistic and creative values. The company employs approximately 100 dancers. The official associate school of the company is the Royal Ballet School, and it also has a sister company, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, which operates independently. The Prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet is the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clifford (choreographer)
John Clifford is an American producer, director, author, choreographer, and dancer. He was the founder and artistic director of the original Los Angeles Ballet (1974–85) and the chamber-sized touring ensemble, Ballet of Los Angeles (1988–91). Before that time, Clifford was a principal dancer and choreographer (8 ballets before age 26) with George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet (1966–74). Balanchine invited him back as a guest artist numerous times, and his last performances with the company were in 1980. Clifford was the artistic director of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Video/Choreographer Program and produced “Pas De Deux,” a video distributed by Video Artists International (VAI). His new for-profit dance company Los Angeles Dance Theater produced for Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, Inc. a dance version of Casablanca; CASABLANCA: The Dance. The production premiered on April 5, 2005 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Mr. Clifford is a senio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy (born Nelly Armande Guillerm; 1 December 1933 – 8 February 2016) was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government. Early life in Europe Born in Pont-l'Abbé, a seacoast town in the Finistère department of Brittany, in northwestern France, she was christened Nelly Armande Guillerm by her parents. Her father, Renan Guillerm, died when she was a few months old; her mother, Jeanne Chateaureynaud, a schoolteacher, enrolled her daughter in dance less ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Mazzo
Kay Mazzo (born January 17, 1946) is an American former ballet dancer and educator. In 1961, she joined Jerome Robbins' company, Ballets USA. The following year, she joined the New York City Ballet, and was promoted to principal dancer in 1969. She created roles for George Balanchine and Robbins, before retiring from performing in 1981. She then joined the permanent faculty of the School of American Ballet in 1983, named co-chairman of faculty in 1997 and chair of faculty in 2018. She stepped down from the position in June 2022, but continues to teach. Early life Mazzo was born on January 17, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. She started taking dance lessons at age six, and entered the School of American Ballet in New York in 1959, when she was thirteen. Mazzo graduated from the Rhodes Preparatory School. Career She joined Jerome Robbins' touring company, Ballets USA, in 1961. She was a New York City Ballet apprentice at the time, but after learning that George Balanchine decided no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Leland
Sally Harrington (August 2, 1941 – November 28, 2020), known professionally as Sara Leland, was an American ballet dancer and ''répétiteur''. She started her career with the Joffrey Ballet in 1959, and was recruited to join the New York City Ballet by George Balanchine in 1960. She was promoted to principal dancer in 1972, and created roles for both Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. In the mid 1970s, she started staging Balanchine's and Robbins' works in both the U.S. and abroad. In 1981, the New York City Ballet appointed her assistant ballet master, and she retired from performing in 1983, but continued to stage and coach ballets. As a ''répétiteur'', she had worked on more than 30 ballets. Early life Leland was born Sally Harrington in Melrose, Massachusetts on August 2, 1941. Her father, Leland "Hago" Harrington, was an ice hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins. Sally started ballet at age five, with her sister who needed ballet as physical therapy, though Leland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegra Kent
Allegra Kent (born August 11, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, actress, children's book author and columnist. Life and career Iris Margo Cohen was born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, and later changed her name to Allegra Kent. Kent grew up in what she later described as a dysfunctional environment. In ''Once a Dancer: An Autobiography'', she describes her Texan father – "who liked to substitute 'Cowboy' for Herschel" – as having "a gambler's soul and a restless nature". She describes her Wisznice-born immigrant mother as feeling "neither European nor American; she was ashamed of her wnparents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Angle
This is a list of New York City Ballet dancers. Principal dancers Soloists This is a list of New York City Ballet soloists. Corps de ballet The following is a list of the current members of the corps de ballet. * Victor Abreu * Devin Alberda * Marika Anderson * Olivia Boisson * Gilbert Bolden III * Jacqueline Bologna * India Bradley * LaJeromeny Brown * Christina Clark * Lauren Collett * Nieve Corrigan * Naomi Corti * Uma Deming * Gabriella Domini * Savannah Durham * Meaghan Dutton-O'Hara * Jonathan Fahoury * Christopher Grant * Laine Habony * Kennard Henson * Spartak Hoxha * Rachel Hutsell * Sasonah Huttenbach * Baily Jones * Alec Knight * Ruby Lister * Malorie Lundgren * Jules Mabie * Alston Macgill * Mary Thomas MacKinnon * Olivia MacKinnon * Zoe Bliss Magnussen * Jenelle Manzi * Alexa Maxwell * Samuel Melnikov * Clara Miller * Lars Nelson * Davide Riccardo * Andrew Scordato * Kristen Segin * Mary Elizabeth Sell * Quinn Starner * Mimi Staker * KJ Takahashi * Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
