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New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company.
This prompted Morton Baum, Chairman of the Finance Committee of City Center of Music & Drama, to invite Balanchine and Kirstein to establish a resident company, renamed the New York City Ballet. [4] Once the dance company was given a stable home at New York City Center, Ballet Society continued to operate separately as a non-profit organization ...
The City Center for Music and Drama Inc. is the organizational parent of the New York City Ballet and was formerly also the parent company of the New York City Opera, [291] which was liquidated in 2013. [292] During its first two decades, the CCMD was largely synonymous with the 55th Street theater, which for the most part was its only location ...
Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York: New York: 2000–present: www.ajkunbt.org: Alabama Ballet: Birmingham: Alabama: 1981–present
The district overlaps with Manhattan Community Boards 7, 9, and 12 and with New York's 10th and 13th congressional districts. It also overlaps with the 30th and 31st districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 69th, 70th, and 71st districts of the New York State Assembly. [5]
The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet and dance at Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Originally named the New York State Theater, [1] the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011.
Arthur Mitchell (March 27, 1934 – September 19, 2018) [1] was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of ballet companies.In 1955, he was the first African-American dancer with the New York City Ballet, where he was promoted to principal dancer the following year and danced in major roles until 1966.
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.Founded in 1939 [2] by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year.