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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 ...
John A. Russo (born September 2, 1939), sometimes credited as Jack Russo or John Russo, is an American screenwriter and film director most commonly associated with the 1968 horror classic film Night of the Living Dead, which he co-wrote with director George Romero. [1] As a screenwriter, his credits include Night of the Living Dead, The ...
- September 2, 1939 (age 84)
- West Virginia University
- 1968–present
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The Ballets Russes ( French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the Revolution disrupted society. After its initial Paris season, the company had no formal ties there.
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- Ballets Russes
- 1909
Our History. We are New York City Ballet. New York City Ballet was the idea of Lincoln Kirstein. He envisioned an American ballet where young native dancers could be trained and schooled under the guidance of the world's greatest ballet masters to perform a new, modern repertory, rather than relying on touring groups of imported artists ...
Our Dancers. A ballet doesn't – can't – exist without dancers. They carry within themselves the technique, knowledge, steps, and understanding to bring countless works of art alive. They are the raw material, inspiration and institutional memory on which choreographers rely. In these pages, you can learn about the marvelous dancers who are ...
Sep 25, 1983 · It will soon be 50 years since the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo performed in the United States for the first time at the St. James Theater in New York on Dec. 22, 1933. The same...
Oct 6, 2016 · In 1940, he added the fourth, Tema Russo. (He placed it third.) Only in 1966 did Balanchine finally choreograph two musical passages he had previously cut from that movement. Members of New...
