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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.Founded in 1939 [2] by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year.
ABT Studio Company, formerly known as ABT II, is a small company of 12 young dancers, ranging from ages 16 to 20, handpicked by ABT. [7] It is currently an extension of the ABT JKO school. [ 8 ] These dancers are trained in the program to join ABT's main company or other leading professional companies, and the program is described by ABT as "a ...
Rachel S. Moore (born c. 1964) [1] is an American arts administrator. She is the president and CEO of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (The Music Center), which operates the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Ahmanson Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, and Grand Park.
Initiatives such as Project Plié, started by the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), also aim to tackle diversity issues in ballet by broadening access to dance education for children of color, increasing diversity in dance administrative positions, and working in partnership with other professional ballet companies as well as Boys & Girls Clubs of ...
Her mother, Yan Chen, was also a dancer with American Ballet Theatre, [2] and was a ballet mistress at Orlando Ballet School while Misseldine was growing up. [ 3 ] Though she stopped attending regular school during high school to focus on training, [ 4 ] Misseldine continued her studies online, even after moving to New York to start her ...
Susan Jaffe (born 1962) is an American ballet dancer and arts administrator. She is currently the artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre, [1] where she had danced for 22 years and held the rank of principal dancer.
He was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) from 1997 until July 2012. [1] He was the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet from 2011 to 2014. [2] His wife is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT. [3]
Theme and Variations is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3.The ballet was made for Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre), and premiered on November 26, 1947, at the City Center 55 Street Theater, with the two leads danced by Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch.