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Oakville Ballet Company: ballet Oakville, Ontario: Canada: AD Amanda Bayliss current ODC/Dance: contemporary San Francisco, California: United States: Founder & AD Brenda Way: 1971–present Oregon Ballet Theatre: ballet Portland, Oregon: United States: Founder James Canfield Interim AD Anne Mueller 1989–present Pacific Northwest Ballet ...
Atlanta Ballet was founded in 1929 by Dorothy Alexander as the Dorothy Alexander Concert Group. [2] During the 1940s, the organization was known as the Atlanta Civic Ballet, [3] with Dorothy Alexander acting as Director. It was the nation's first regional ballet company.
The Atlanta Festival Ballet Company is composed of ten professional dancers and student apprentices who have dedicated themselves to the discipline of dance performance. The Company began as the vision of Co-Artistic Director Gregory Aaron, and made its debut on November 4, 1989, in a full length performance of Cinderella.
Aug. 12—The Atlanta Ballet has a new leader, with the dance company announcing Tom West as its new executive director. Atlanta Ballet is one of two resident companies at the Cobb Energy ...
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The doctor who delivered her said she had beautiful legs, therefore her mother believed Part should be a ballet dancer. However, Part started in gymnastics at age 4, and continued for six years. In 1988, at age 10, her mother sent her to audition for Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. She was accepted and started training at the academy.
A ballet company is a type of dance troupe that performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year (typically thirty or forty ...
It is also used as a description of the place of a particular dancer within a company. "Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who is a female principal dancer. These dancers are the best in their companies who perform the lead roles in ballets ...