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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 ...
Five months after Balanchine's death in 1983, the George Balanchine Foundation was formed to preserve his legacy. It embarked almost immediately upon the first of its major projects, The Balanchine Essays (2013), a video project produced and published by the foundation. [ 1 ]
George Balanchine in 1965. This is a list of ballets by George Balanchine (1904–1983), New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master. Chronological.
Jewels is a three-act ballet created for 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, with sets designed by Peter Harvey and lighting by Ronald Bates.
Choreographer 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 States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...
Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, to Georges Bizet's Symphony in C. The ballet was originally created for the Paris Opera Ballet , and premiered on July 28, 1947 at Théâtre National de l'Opéra.
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.
Hindemith's piece was ultimately used in The Four Temperaments, the first ballet George Balanchine choreographed for the Ballet Society. [6]: 209 The Ballet Society, co-founded by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, was a subscription-only company that would mainly perform new works, and the forerunner of New York City Ballet.