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The Lyon Center opened in 1989 as the Student Recreation Center for the University of Southern California. [3] [4] [5] The main gym also serves as a home for the USC Trojans men's and women's varsity volleyball teams. [6] [7] From 1989 to 2006, the North Gym in the USC Physical Education building and the Lyon Center split time as the team's ...
Watts retired from the stage in a gala performance at Lincoln Center in 1995. She married fellow New York City Ballet Principal Damian Woetzel in 1999. In addition to her dancing career, Watts was director of the New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs from 1982 to 1994, where she administered a ballet school for gifted ...
Villella became a member of the New York City Ballet in 1957, rising to soloist in 1958 and principal dancer in 1960, last dancing there in 1979. [4]: 179 Among his most noteworthy [5] performances were Oberon in George Balanchine's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream (with music by Felix Mendelssohn), Tarantella, Rubies in the Balanchine ballet Jewels, and Prodigal Son.
The company was named New York City Ballet in 1948 when it became resident at City Center of Music and Drama. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Its success was marked by its move to the New York State Theater, now David H. Koch Theater , designed by Philip Johnson to Balanchine's specifications.
Annabelle Lyon (New York City, January 8, 1916 – November 4, 2011, Mansfield, Massachusetts) was an American ballerina. She was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre . She was raised in Memphis , where her father Max ran a chain of grocery stores.
Stafford became an apprentice at New York City Ballet in October 1998, and joined the corps de ballet in February 1999. He became a soloist in 2006, and taught in the School of American Ballet as a guest faculty. The following year, he was promoted to principal dancer, and joined SAB's permanent faculty.
He began learning tap dancing at age eight, before focusing on ballet after being convinced by his ballet teacher and former New York City Ballet principal dancer Melinda Roy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He took part in School of American Ballet 's summer program in 2006 and 2007, before entering the scholl full-time in 2007. [ 3 ]
Frankfurt was a dancer with the New York City Ballet, under the direction of Balanchine and, later, Jerome Robbins, for fourteen years. [2] She was later promoted to the rank of soloist. [ 3 ] Frankfurt danced in ballets including Agon , Symphony in Three Movements , Chaconne , Le Tombeau de Couperin , and The Nutcracker .