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Robert Garland is the artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, [1] where he was a principal dancer and their first official resident choreographer. He has also choreographed for the New York City Ballet, The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and the Oakland Ballet, among many others.
The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet was staged by Sean Lavery, assistant to the ballet master in chief at New York City Ballet to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (1934–1940). The premiere took place 24 February 1991 at the New York State Theater , Lincoln Center .
Opus 19/The Dreamer was created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patricia McBride, and features an ensemble of 12 dancers. [1] Baryshnikov joined the New York City Ballet in 1978, the year before Opus 19 was created, and soon after that he left to take over the directorship of the American Ballet Theatre. [3]
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.
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.
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.
In 1959 he was invited by George Balanchine to be a guest artist with New York City Ballet, performing his Episodes. [ 7 ] Taylor's early choreographic projects have been noted as distinctly different from the modern, physical works he would come to be known for later, and have even invited comparison to the conceptual performances of the ...
Classical ballet Romeo + Juliet , as it is displayed in print, is a ballet by New York City Ballet balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins to Sergei Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet (1934–1940). The premiere took place on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at the New York State Theater , Lincoln Center .