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New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company.
Both of his parents were ballet dancers. His father Paul Mejia, who is Peruvian, was a dancer at the New York City Ballet (NYCB) during the 1960s. [2] Mejia began dancing at age three at the Metropolitan Classical Ballet, where his father was a co-artistic director.
Stafford became an apprentice at New York City Ballet in October 1998, and joined the corps de ballet in February 1999. He became a soloist in 2006, and taught in the School of American Ballet as a guest faculty. The following year, he was promoted to principal dancer, and joined SAB's permanent faculty.
The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet and dance at Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Originally named the New York State Theater, [1] the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011.
Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he ...
Catazaro became an apprentice with the New York City Ballet in 2007. At this time, he performed a principal role in the revival of Jerome Robbins' Watermill. He became a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2008, performing featured roles such as the male lead in Diamonds from Jewels, [2] the Cavalier in The Nutcracker and Shakespeare's comedic and temperamental Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's ...
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Janie Taylor (born 1980 or 1981) [1] is an American ballet dancer, répétiteur and costume designer. She joined New York City Ballet in 1998, was promoted to principal dancer in 2005 and left in 2014.