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1. THE MUSEUM AND THE ACADEMY.

Author

Gurewitsch, Matthew

Subjects
MUSEUMS, LEARNED institutions & societies, BALLET, DANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY, DANCE companies, PERFORMING arts
Abstract

The article compares and contrasts the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and the New York City Ballet (NYCB). It classifies the ABT as a museum and the NYCB as a living academy. The ABT looks backward while the NYCB derives its continued vitality from the production of new choreography that illuminates and enhances its evolving traditions. The term classical ballet is defined in two ways. The abstract neoclassical style strips out the classical ballet's potential of charging the dancing itself. The neoclassical styles is distinguished from the classical in allegro.

Published
1981

2. Feast for the Eyes: A Balanchine-Robbins-Balanchine Sandwich.

Author

ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Subjects
*BALLET, *DANCE, *PIANO, *ORCHESTRA
Abstract

For decades, New York City Ballet's post-''Nutcracker'' eight-week winter season has been such a fixture of this city's life that it's easy to take its central achievement for granted: it affords a tightly packed range of repertory that is the envy of balletgoers everywhere else across the planet. On paper, its current season appears a judicious mix of the new, the recent, the unfamiliar and the classic. In the theater the ingredients for individual programs sometimes feel less happily combined. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

3. Ballet Meets Broadway Choreographers and Composers.

Author

MaCaulay, Alastair

Subjects
*BALLET, *DANCE
Abstract

Ballet companies, like individual dancers, love to demonstrate how diverse they can be. So New York City Ballet, which began its six-week spring season with eight performances of high modernism (black-and-white costuming, no scenery, most of the music by Webern, Stravinsky and Hindemith), is now giving us a tribute to Broadway, with music by Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein. Nobody in New York should be seriously surprised to find such fare at the ballet -- the links between ballet and musical theater have a richer track record here than anywhere else -- but on paper it's still fun to see that City Ballet can give us a program comprising works by three artists who each have been top Broadway choreographers: George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Susan Stroman. The two dead choreographers profited on Thursday night from vivid performances: notably from Maria Kowroski's sensational Striptease Girl in Balanchine's ''Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,'' from the 1936 musical ''On Your Toes,'' and young Chase Finlay's touchingly ardent Tony in ''West Side Story.'' An introduction, by the conductor Faycal Karoui, part of the company's See the Music series, entertainingly brought fresh insights into Bernstein's familiar score. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2011

4. Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin.

Author

Sulcas, Roslyn

Subjects
*BALLET, *DANCE
Abstract

Three ballets choreographed to violin concertos could have been a nice idea on paper but a bad one in practice. Amazingly, however, New York City Ballet's triple violin bill on Saturday night at the David H. Koch Theater offered not just a magnificent range of 20th-century scores by Barber, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, but also a dance program that seemed perfectly composed too. First came Peter Martins's ''Barber Violin Concerto'' from 1988, set to Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Op. 14). ''Barber'' demonstrates Mr. Martins's best attributes as a choreographer: a gift for ingenious partnering; an unpredictable responsiveness to the music; a craftsmanship in moving dancers around the stage. On Saturday he was served marvelously by his performers: Sara Mearns and Charles Askegard as the classical pair; Megan Fairchild and Jared Angle as the moderns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010

5. DANCE.

Subjects
DANCE, BALLETS (Musical form)
Abstract

The article presents a calendar of dance events in New York in December 2005. New York City Ballet will perform The Nutcracker at the New York State Theatre. In This Dream That Dogs Me, choreographed by Karole Armitage, will be performed at The Duke. Choreographer Sasha Waltz will stage Impromptus at the Howard Gilman Opera House on December 6, 8, 9 and 10. A party-girl adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, choreographed by Heidi Latsky, will be performed by Balletto Stiletto through December 18.

Published
2005