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Balanchine’s legacy in shaping ballet technique and dancer aesthetics is profound and lasting. His influence not only transformed American ballet but left an indelible mark on the global ballet culture. Today, the “Balanchine body” and the principles of his technique continue to be both celebrated and criticized.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Balanchine's first completely original full-length ballet, premiered at New York City Ballet on 17 January 1962, [1] [2] with Edward Villella in the role of Oberon, Melissa Hayden in the role of Titania, and Arthur Mitchell in the role of Puck.
Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48.Serenade is credited as being George Balanchine's first full-length ballet in America.
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.