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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. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the ...
Robert Schumann’s “Davidsbündlertänze” is one of the last major works made by New York City Ballet 's founding choreographer and balletmaster-in-chief, George Balanchine. It is set to Robert Schumann 's Davidsbündlertänze ( Dances of the League of David ), [1] Op. 6 (1837). The idea for setting this piano work very likely came from a ...
Wilhelmina Frankfurt is an American ballerina, dance educator, and choreographer. She was a soloist with the New York City Ballet, dancing under the direction of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins, until she left the company in 1985. Throughout her career, she performed in various Balanchine ballets including Agon, Le Tombeau ...
1989. Canton, Ohio. Nationality. American. Education. School of American Ballet, Canton Ballet, Chautauqua Institution. Known for. Ballet Now and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Zachary Catazaro (born 1989) is an American ballet dancer and former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet and Bayerisches Staatsballett .
Website. sab .org. The School of American Ballet ( SAB) is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the age of six, with professional vocational ballet training for students aged 11–18.
Scott Ogden. Children. 1. Career. Current group. New York City Ballet. Teresa Reichlen (born 1984 or 1985) [1] is an American ballet dancer. She joined the New York City Ballet in 2001, was promoted to principal dancer in 2009, and retired in 2022.
The Nutcracker (Balanchine) The Nutcracker. (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine 's production of Peptipa and Tchaikovsky 's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet, its premiere took place on February 2, 1954 at City Center, New ...
Misty Copeland. Misty Danielle Copeland (born September 10, 1982) [1] is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. [2] On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.