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Karl Wilhelm Alexander Ekman (born 1984) is a Swedish ballet dancer and choreographer.His choreographies have been performed by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Semperoper Ballett, the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Norwegian National Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the São Paulo City Ballet [], the Sydney Dance Company, and the Wiener Staatsballett.
In 1967, Merce Cunningham asked Ms. Jenkins to re stage his work for the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm, Sweden, one of the first times his work was performed by another company. In 1970, Jenkins returned to San Francisco, where she taught dance and choreographed. She founded the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in 1973.
Små grodorna being danced at midsummer, 1969, Årsnäs, Sweden. Små grodorna (Swedish for "The Little Frogs") is a traditional Swedish dance and song traditionally performed at midsummer, where the participants dance around the maypole. The dance involves movements that illustrate body parts that frogs lack, namely "ears" (öron) and "tails ...
Until 1956, San Francisco Ballet had remained on the West Coast, but Christensen took the company to the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. In 1957, it was the first American ballet company to tour the Far East, performing in 11 Asian nations. [ 9 ]
The Sweden Day Committee of greater New York sponsors the annual Sweden Day. This traditional event occurs during the summer solstice at Manhem Club, on the sound in Throggs Neck , New York. This festival of Midsummer features the raising of the maypole , traditional food, music, folk dancing, games, prizes and camaraderie.
Ballets Suédois production of Skating Rink (1922) by Jean Börlin (1893-1930), scenery by Fernand Léger. The Ballets Suédois (French pronunciation:) was a predominantly Swedish dance ensemble based in Paris that, under the direction of Rolf de Maré (1888–1964), performed throughout Europe and the United States between 1920 and 1925, rightfully earning the reputation as a "synthesis of ...
Smuin Contemporary Ballet, formerly known as Smuin Ballet, [1] is a touring ballet company based in San Francisco, California. [2] Smuin Ballet performs its season in multiple venues: the Dean Lesher Center in Walnut Creek, [3] [4] the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, the Sunset Center in Carmel, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The Palace of Fine Arts ...
A neoclassical dance style was cultivated with ballets like The Goldberg Variations, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peer Gynt and great classical ballets such as Giselle or The Nutcracker. The company also presented works of other choreographers such as George Balanchine, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Hans von Manen or Twyla Tharp.