George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United...
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The Nutcracker (Willam Christensen), a 1944 version of the ballet The Nutcracker (Balanchine), a 1954 stage production of the ballet The Nutcracker,...
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The Nutcracker, also known as George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, is a 1993 American Christmas ballet film based on Peter Martins's stage production and...
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The New York City Ballet gave its first annual performance of George Balanchine's staging of The Nutcracker in 1954. The tradition of performing the complete...
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The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as...
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1965 The Nutcracker, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1892 The Nutcracker (Willam Christensen), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1944 The Nutcracker (Balanchine), Pyotr...
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offered the company residency at the New York City Center. In 1954, Balanchine created his version of The Nutcracker, in which he played the mime role...
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Gonzalo Garcia (dancer) (category Spanish emigrants to the United States)
Jewels A Midsummer Night's Dream: Oberon The Nutcracker (Balanchine version): Cavalier Polyphonia Opus 19/The Dreamer Other Dances Romeo and Juliet (Martins...
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Coppélia, and the principal roles in Etudes, The Nutcracker, Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and the Don Quixote Pas de Deux. At the age of sixteen...
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Cavalier in The Nutcracker (Balanchine) Pas de Deux in Agon (Balanchine) Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins) Concerto DSCH (Ratmansky) Man in the Waltz in Serenade...
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television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker (1958). From 1961 to 1967, Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera Love of Life, portraying...
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Darci Kistler (section George Balanchine)
She is often said to be the last muse for choreographer George Balanchine. Kistler was born in Riverside, California, the fifth child (with four older...
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Gelsey Kirkland (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
training at the School of American Ballet. Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted...
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George Balanchine Symphony in C (Third Movement); choreography by George Balanchine The Four Temperaments; choreography by George Balanchine Jewels (Emeralds...
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George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master. Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925) Jack in the Box...
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Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, also known as Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker or simply Nutcracker, is a 1986 American Christmas performing arts...
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Ruslan Skvortsov (category Honored Artists of the Russian Federation)
Russia in April 2014. Skvortsov made his debut as the soloist of the Fourth Movement of George Balanchine's Symphony in C in 1999 and danced his first leading...
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Three Movements. In 2015, she made her debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Balanchine's The Nutcracker. In 2016, she was chosen by choreographer Christopher...
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Maria Tallchief (section Balanchine era)
her in The Nutcracker, one is tempted to doubt it." Other notable roles Tallchief created under Balanchine include the Swan Queen in Balanchine's version...
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soloist) by G. Balanchine, “Theme and variation” (Main soloist) by G. Balanchine, “Apollo” (Terpsichore and Calliope) by G. Balanchine, "La Bayadere"...
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performed in various Balanchine ballets including Agon, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Chaconne, Symphony in Three Movements, The Nutcracker, and Jewels. She was...
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Ib Andersen (section Balanchine répétiteur)
around the world, having been appointed an accredited Balanchine répétiteur by the George Balanchine Trust. He also staged ballets by August Bournonville...
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Serenade (Balanchine) Still Life at the Penguin Café (Bintley), Enigma Variations (Ashton), Beauty and The Beast (Bintley), The Nutcracker - The Prince (Wright)...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Ballet Theatre, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer for one season to learn about George Balanchine's neoclassical Russian style...
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Melissa Hayden (dancer) (category Canadian expatriates in the United States)
American television as the Sugar Plum Fairy in a one-hour German-American adaptation of The Nutcracker. Filmed in 1964 and first shown in the United States by...
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New York City Ballet (redirect from Balanchine ’s 50th Anniversary Celebration)
George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's...
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performed include the Cavalier in Balanchine's The Nutcracker and Prince Ivan in Firebird. Throughout his time in the company, he was one of the few African...
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Francesca Hayward (category Actors educated at the Royal Ballet School)
started ballet at age 3, after her grandparents bought her a video of The Nutcracker. When she was young, she danced at Le Serve School of Ballet and Theatre...
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Charlotte Nebres (section The Nutcracker)
she become the first Black ballerina to dance the role of Marie in New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. Later that...
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Barbara Fallis (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
time, she danced in such performances as Western Symphony and Balanchine's first Nutcracker. In 1958, she left New York City Ballet and began a short period...
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