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The Joffrey Ballet eventually settled down in New York City, under the name the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet. In 1962, modern choreographer Alvin Ailey was invited to make a work for the company. Rebekah Harkness was an important early benefactor and she made international touring possible (Soviet Union, 1963), but in 1964 she and Joffrey ...
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago – in 1995 as associate artistic director, [17] DeAngelo created a vision for the Joffrey's relocation from New York, and along with Artistic Director Gerald Arpino, a successful vision for its artistic future. Arpino created an evening called "Legends" spotlighting female choreographers choreography about iconic ...
The Harkness Ballet (1964–1975) was a New ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings, and was a dance lover. Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet , but when they refused to rename the company in her honor, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffrey dancers for ...
Wilkins was born at home in Truckee, California and had her primary pre-professional training with Maggie Banks (former Principal with American Ballet Theatre) in Reno, Nevada. Wilkins moved to New York when she was 15 to continue her professional training at the Joffrey Ballet School. [2] Wilkins joined the Joffrey Ballet [3] in 1991. [2]
He went on to enrol as a student at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, [4] where he was spotted by Robert Joffrey. [5] Joining the Joffrey Ballet, Holder remained with the company from 1966 to 1979, [8] becoming one of their most acclaimed principal dancers, performing as a soloist with choreographers including Kurt Jooss (who ...
He studied modern dance with May O'Donnell in whose company he appeared in the 1950s. [2] In 1956, Arpino was a founding member of the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet with Robert Joffrey. He served as co-director of the company's school, the American Ballet Center, and was the leading dancer until an injury forced him to stop in 1963. [3]
From 1950 to 1955, he taught at the New York High School for the Performing Arts, where he staged his earliest ballets. He founded the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City in 1953, where it remains as a separate organization from The Joffrey Academy of Dance in Chicago, which is the official school of the Joffrey Ballet Company. [3] [4]
She has choreographed over 70 works classical ballet companies as well as contemporary ballet companies.. Gates' works include: Barely Silent premiered at The Joyce Theatre in New York City in January 2007, commissioned for Complexions Contemporary Ballet; Minor Loop for The Washington Ballet in June 2006; Momentary Play premiered in New York for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in October 2005 ...