• Thumbnail for George Balanchine
    George Balanchine (/ˈbælən(t)ʃiːn, ˌbælənˈ(t)ʃiːn/; born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; Russian: Георгий Мелитонович Баланчивадзе; Georgian: გიორგი...
    40 KB (4,112 words) - 10:59, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ballets Russes
    performances there in 1932. Diaghilev alumni Léonide Massine and George Balanchine worked as choreographers with the company and Tamara Toumanova was...
    52 KB (4,243 words) - 12:45, 15 June 2024
  • Balanchine technique or Balanchine method is the ballet performance style invented by dancer, choreographer, and teacher George Balanchine (1904–1983)...
    6 KB (795 words) - 08:06, 19 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Don Quixote (ballet)
    choreographer George Balanchine famously created a modern version in 1965 for the New York City Ballet to the music of Nicolas Nabokov, with Balanchine himself...
    20 KB (2,859 words) - 23:36, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ballets by George Balanchine
    This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master. Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the...
    18 KB (985 words) - 06:34, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coppélia
    Coppelius, and Janet Reed as Swanhilda and was an instant hit. In 1974, George Balanchine choreographed a version of Coppélia for the New York City Ballet....
    17 KB (2,077 words) - 18:11, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Darci Kistler
    ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for choreographer George Balanchine. Kistler was born in Riverside, California, the fifth child (with...
    10 KB (913 words) - 03:07, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Firebird
    Tallchief as the Firebird, choreography by George Balanchine, and scenery and costumes by Marc Chagall. Balanchine placed a heavy emphasis on the dancing...
    55 KB (5,980 words) - 11:11, 28 May 2024
  • in the Live From Lincoln Center broadcast, "Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100," in Vienna Waltzes. He has been a guest artist with Pacific Northwest...
    7 KB (357 words) - 16:23, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maria Tallchief
    Osage Tribe member to hold the rank. Together with choreographer George Balanchine, she is widely considered to have revolutionized ballet. Elizabeth...
    47 KB (5,706 words) - 04:59, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Baryshnikov
    City Ballet as a principal dancer for one season to learn about George Balanchine's neoclassical Russian style of movement. He then returned to the American...
    46 KB (4,572 words) - 09:16, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of ballet
    "George Balanchine | the George Balanchine Foundation". Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2008. George Balanchine...
    52 KB (6,642 words) - 23:53, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olesya Novikova
    choreography by George Balanchine Symphony in C (Third Movement); choreography by George Balanchine The Four Temperaments; choreography by George Balanchine Jewels...
    6 KB (551 words) - 13:57, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Daniil Simkin
    Tudor's Shadowplay. He performed works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp and Merce Cunningham as...
    23 KB (2,601 words) - 17:21, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ballet
    Stravinsky, Roussel). Tim Scholl, author of From Petipa to Balanchine, considers George Balanchine's Apollo in 1928 to be the first neoclassical ballet. Apollo...
    42 KB (4,358 words) - 20:22, 5 July 2024
  • the New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday, 13 April 1967 at the New York State Theater...
    18 KB (1,742 words) - 21:39, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apollo (ballet)
    Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes...
    17 KB (1,650 words) - 19:58, 13 April 2024
  • the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted to soloist in 1969, and principal in 1972. She went...
    10 KB (1,069 words) - 21:40, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of productions of The Nutcracker
    ballet The Nutcracker began to slowly enjoy worldwide popularity after Balanchine first staged his production of it in 1954. It may now be the most popular...
    111 KB (14,326 words) - 14:06, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antonia Franceschi
    choreographer. Franceschi was one of the last generations selected by George Balanchine to join The New York City Ballet. She is a Time Out Award winner for...
    12 KB (1,104 words) - 21:16, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York City Ballet
    a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers...
    43 KB (3,437 words) - 21:30, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)
    and throughout his time with the company he danced 24 roles for George Balanchine. He also made film appearances, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...
    13 KB (1,062 words) - 03:27, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neoclassical ballet
    style of 20th-century classical ballet exemplified by the works of George Balanchine. The term "neoclassical ballet" appears in the 1920s with Sergei Diaghilev's...
    6 KB (716 words) - 08:17, 21 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for June Lockhart
    for Playhouse 90's telecast of the George Balanchine version of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, featuring Balanchine himself as Drosselmeyer, along with...
    23 KB (1,579 words) - 20:04, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allyn Ann McLerie
    many of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie was born in Grand-Mère...
    12 KB (913 words) - 03:06, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tamara Geva
    choreographer George Balanchine. Throughout her life she danced with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, danced with husband George Balanchine, and performed...
    20 KB (1,762 words) - 19:53, 9 June 2024
  • Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Peptipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often...
    9 KB (856 words) - 18:03, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Four Temperaments
    Léonide Massine, the score was ultimately completed as a commission for George Balanchine, who subsequently choreographed it as a neoclassical ballet based...
    20 KB (2,091 words) - 07:01, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Choreography
    Cunningham, George Balanchine, and Sir Frederick Ashton were all influential choreographers of classical or abstract dance, but Balanchine and Ashton,...
    16 KB (1,796 words) - 01:03, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bonnie Bedelia
    was that of Clara in the Playhouse 90 television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker (1958). From 1961 to 1967, Bedelia was a regular on the...
    19 KB (939 words) - 04:05, 9 June 2024