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In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet, including the Overtures to Athalie, Son and Stranger, and The Fair Melusine, the "String Symphony No. 9 in C minor" and The First Walpurgis Night. [1] The ballet employs a large children's corps de ballet. [4]
George Balanchine: Maurice Ravel: New York City Ballet: City Center of Music and Drama: February 20 [1] Pineapple Poll: John Cranko: Arthur Sullivan: Sadler's Wells Ballet: Sadler's Wells Theatre: March 13 [2] The Cage: Jerome Robbins: Igor Stravinsky: New York City Ballet: City Center of Music and Drama: June 10 [3] Tiresias: Frederick Ashton ...
3.9 For Ballet Theatre. 3.10 For Ballet Society. ... This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master.
It's provocative to aspire to slip into the mind of one of ballet's great masters, but Lincoln Jones sees it as a progression in his long devotion to George Balanchine's art.
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.
Balanchine's father Meliton. Balanchine was born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, son of Georgian opera singer and composer Meliton Balanchivadze, one of the founders of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre and later the Minister of Culture of the Georgian Democratic Republic, which became independent in 1918 but was later forcibly incorporated into the ...
The American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States.The company was founded with the help of Lincoln Kirstein [1] and Edward Warburg, [2] managed by Alexander Merovitch [3] and populated by students of Kirstein and Balanchine's School of American Ballet. [4]
In 1993, George Balanchine's version for the New York City Ballet served as the basis for a full-length feature film called George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, made by Electra Entertainment and Regency Enterprises. It was distributed and released by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Emile Ardolino, with narration spoken by Kevin Kline.