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| | Neoclassical ballet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Neoclassical ballet is a term describing the ballet style which uses traditional ballet vocabulary, but is generally more expansive than the classical structure allowed. | | | Spacing in neoclassical ballet is ususally more modern or complex than in classical ballet. | | | Although organization in neoclassical ballet is more varied, the focus on structure is a defining characteristic of neoclassical ballet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_ballet
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| | The first Ballet per se is considered to be Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx's Ballet Comique de la Royne (1581) and was a ballet comique (ballet drama). | | | Pas de dueux, trois and quatre can be indiviual works or part of a larger ballet (but are often performed out of context) and are usually danced by principal, solo and guest artist of a ballet company. | | | Ballet pas de deux (step / dance for two) is a duet in which ballet steps are performed together. |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Ballet.html
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| | Neoclassicism (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Igor Stravinsky composed some of the best known neoclassical works — in his ballet Pulcinella, for example, he used themes which he believed to be by Giovanni Pergolesi (it later transpired that many of them were not, though they were by contemporaries). | | | However, in the use of modern instrumental resources such as the full orchestra, which had greatly expanded since the 18th century, and advanced harmony, neoclassical works are distinctly 20th century. | | | Paul Hindemith was another neoclassicist (and New Objectivist), as was Bohuslav Martinů, who revived the Baroque concerto grosso form in his works. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism_(music)
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| | Octavio Roca, "Dance: A Constantly Evolving Tradition", U.S. Society and Values, April 2003 |
| | The American Ballet Theater, the late Tudor's home and today's American national company, continues in the 21st century a tradition of dramatic ballets that are thrilling reminders of the immediacy, of the vitality, of this art form. | | | Peter Martins, Balanchine's handpicked successor at New York City Ballet, is perhaps the chief guardian of neoclassicism and continues to delight with new ballets that reveal hidden possibilities within the syntax and speed of the American style. | | | In both New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, young Christopher Wheeldon is at the forefront of a new generation of choreographers who create valid new works that are extending the definition of American ballet. |
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http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0403/ijse/roca.htm
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| | Ballet: Editor Selected ResultsAbout Ballet |
| | Ballet Magazine - This online magazine covers the ballet world and focuses a lot on ballet in the United Kingdom. | | | Dance Magazine's Directory - Dance Magazine's directory lists ballet schools that are affiliated with professional ballet companies that often have the most vigorous ballet training. | | | CyberDance - Ballet on the Net - This is one of the most extensive listings of ballet and modern dance companies in on the Web and has received numerous Internet awards. |
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http://results.about.com/ballet
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| | ABT |
| | The ballet's subtexts are the relationship of the dancing to the music, and of the men and women with each other. | | | The dancers looked as if each had worked on his or her solo in different studios; there was no sense of the ballet as a whole, or that it was supposed to tell a story. | | | Tippet has worked within ballet's classical traditions; the men are primarily porteurs, but the partnering itself is not at all traditional. |
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http://www.balletalert.com/reviews/r98/abt.htm
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| | Kansas Regional Ballet |
| | The ballet is neoclassical with two romantic (in mood) pas de duex's set juxtapose & also together. | | | Kansas Regional Ballet was founded in 1979 by artistic directors, Dennis and Kathy Landsman as a performing outlet for their young dancers at the official school of the company, the | | | , a free-lance choreographer and dance instructor, was commissioned to choreograph a new ballet for Kansas Regional Ballet. |
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http://krb.homestead.com
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| | Russian dance in the shadow of Balanchine csmonitor.com |
| | Although his foundation was the classical ballet training he had learned in St. Petersburg and the ballets of the 19th-century choreographer Marius Petipa, Balanchine created a neoclassical technique that aligned ballet with the work of modern American and European artists and composers. | | | NEW YORK - This year, ballet companies across the US and Europe are celebrating the centennial of choreographer George Balanchine, the father of neoclassical ballet. | | | But together, he and his compatriots transformed ballet from a plaything of the czars and a pet project of the Soviets into a robust American art form. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0709/p13s01-almp.htm
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| | New York City Ballet NYCB Repertory |
| | This exuberant plotless, neoclassical ballet is filled with unusual choreographic pictures -- a man prone on the floor while a pas de deux is danced around him, a bouncing ensemble, and a woman being tossed across the stage to a group of men, are just a few. | | | From 1990 - 1994 he was artistic director and president/CEO of the Pennsylvania Ballet. | | | Born into a dancing family in 1960, Christopher d'Amboise was trained at the School of American Ballet and also studied jazz, tap, and ballroom dance. |
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http://www.nycballet.com/repnotes/circle5ths2.html
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| | New York City Ballet Repertory and Dancers |
| | A neoclassical ballet, The Beethoven Seventh is filled with bravura solos, pas de deux and ensemble work, intricate entrances and exits, and unusual partnering. | | | Twyla Tharp's second ballet for New York City Ballet is a sweeping work for three principal couples and a corps of 12. | | | The ballet opens with a lighthearted, yet noble first movement, followed by a slow and sensuous pas de deux filled with yearning and passion. |
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http://www.nycballet.com/about/rep_beethoven7.html
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| | Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention - Charles M. Joseph |
| | Both Russian artistic émigrés to the West, together they defined neoclassical ballet throughout the 20th century by forging an amazing creative bond that spanned 50 years and resulted in the creation of 30 ballets. | | | The chapters that deal with impresario Serge Diaghilev, with whom both creators worked, separately and together, during the declining years of The Ballets Russes in the late 20s, are captivating in drama and detail. | | | Contrast his dusty technical points with the engrossing circumstances surrounding the dance world after Diaghilev’s death and the decline of the Ballets Russes. |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Books2/Stravinsky.htm
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| | Remembering George Balanchine csmonitor.com |
| | Although Balanchine worked in every style, his abstract ballets, performed with precision, speed, and intense musicality, transformed classical ballet into one of the most expressive mediums of the 20th century. | | | First of all, I watch his ballets all day long and every night, so his work is constantly in front of me. He established the whole tone of the NYCB, how people behave, how people are supposed to think about life and other people; how dignified he was, how humane he was. | | | Together, they founded the School of American Ballet (SAB) in 1934, and the NYCB in 1948. |
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http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2003/1219/p15s01-almp.htm
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| | The Company |
| | He has also appeared as a guest artist with Sydney Dance Company, Ballet du Nord, PACT Ballet, the Queensland Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and the Australian Ballet. | | | He has danced as a principal dancer with the International Ballet of Caracas, the Bavarian National Ballet and Miami City Ballet, Ballet du Nord, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Nagoya Ballet and the Australian Ballet among others. | | | Gamonet's work in ballet's neoclassical style –- both abstract and narrative – has been noted and rewarded at a national and international level. |
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http://www.maximumdancecompany.com/the_artists.htm
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| | Arts & Culture - Fall Arts Classical - Ballet Spokane |
| | Ballet Spokane is a small troupe of dancers with experiences ranging from work with the Serbian National Theatre Ballet, to schooling in New York City. | | | "Ballet is a beautiful art form, but an expensive one to produce. | | | Ballet Spokane's next performance will be Graceful Ghost, on Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Met. |
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http://www.inlander.com/inlandway/363746174369567.php
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| | Tucson Weekly: Balanchine Bonanza (October 19 - October 25, 2000) |
| | Ballet Tucson presents Dance and Art 2000 at 7 p.m. | | | Both Schwartz's and Derks' art will be part of "In Paradisium/ Doves," a spiritual ballet by Cabana and Jeffrey Hughes. | | | Mural artist Pasqualina Azzarello, who's currently hard at work on the Stone Avenue public art project, contributes her streetsmart work to "Urban Study," a piece by Mark Schneider and Joe Tremaine that melds hip hop and jazz dance. |
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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2000-10-19/review3.html
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| | Seattle Weekly: Arts: Connecting to Mr. B by Sandra Kurtz |
| | Neoclassical ballet is the result of this experimentation and is a dialect spoken particularly well at Pacific Northwest Ballet. | | | Both she and co-director Kent Stowell danced with the New York City Ballet, but it is Russell who has had the main responsibility of protecting Balanchine's legacy here, bringing not just his choreography but also his philosophy of dance into the studio every day. | | | Occasionally the variations were quite subtle, but just as often they were dynamic and compelling, transforming amplitude, attack, and musicality, and the critical mass of these changes remade the art form. |
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http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0445/041110_dance_balanchine.php
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| | Dance Magazine: MAURO BIGONZETTI: Italy's New Maestro of Dance - Aterballetto artistic director and choreographer who ... |
| | His first full-evening ballet with the company, Mediterranea (1993), was an abstract, imaginary journey through the Mediterranean world, inspired by a wide range of music and dominated by a powerful, space-devouring tension. | | | The ballet made such a strong impression that former ballerina Elisabetta Terabust, then director of Rome Opera Ballet, asked him to mount it for her company. | | | Aterballetto had revolutionized the Italian dancescape in the 1980s, when ballet was dominated by companies affiliated with opera houses. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_2_73/ai_53663451
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| | Boston Ballet, founded in 1960 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. | | | It received its U.S. Premiere by the Bolshoi Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House on September 20, 1962. | | | Since 1960, the Graham section and the solo variation are no longer performed by the New York City Ballet, although it was performed once in 1993 when Taylor re-staged the solo for City Ballet as part of the Balanchine celebration that year. |
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http://www.citycenter.org/pressroom/dan05program.cfm
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| | Carolina Ballet In the News Reviews & Articles |
| | In the long run, ballet director Robert Weiss is hoping that he will be able to add one or two more talents to his young company, made up of American ballerinas and foreign dancers. | | | With the Carolina Ballet he is continuing the Balanchine heritage, but relying on younger choreographers like Lynne Taylor-Corbett or Christopher Wheeldon. | | | At the height of his dancing career, the 53-year-old Weiss was one of the most virtuoso soloists in George Balanchine& New York City Ballet. |
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http://www.carolinaballet.com/news/rv-messiah-05-17-02.html
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| | BayDance.com NEWS |
| | Continuum, which San Francisco Ballet premiered in spring 2002, is an abstract neoclassical ballet for four couples set to the music of Györgi Ligeti. | | | Morris' Sandpaper Ballet, which San Francisco Ballet premiered in 1999, is an ensemble piece set to the music of Leroy Anderson, with whimsical costumes by designer Isaac Mizrahi. | | | San Francisco Ballet touring is made possible by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund. |
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http://www.baydance.com/sfb/03tour.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Suki Schorer On Balanchine Technique: Books |
| | George Balanchine, world-renowned choreographer and founder of the New York City Ballet, made a tremendous impact on the history of American dance by ushering in the era of neoclassical ballet defined by spartan costumes, technical wizardry, and a new musicality. | | | His legacy includes a company (New York City Ballet), a school (School of American Ballet), and 425 works; Schorer, a member of NYCB from 1959 to 1972, danced and taught for Mr. | | | Based on recollections of his teaching and on her experiences as a teacher, the book details work at the barre, work with the upper body, pointe work, jumps, and the art of partnering. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679450602?v=glance
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| | Blue Jeans to Ballet Encore |
| | USC is one of 60 dance companies from around the world chosen to perform Balanchine ballets this year in honor of the choreographer's 100th birthday. | | | Jones, a native of Columbia, is a sophomore at USC and trained at the Nutmeg Ballet. | | | Blue Jeans to Ballet Encore is part of USC Theatre South Carolina's season subscription. |
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http://www.sc.edu/usctimes/articles/2004-02/encore_ballet.html
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| | AroundCinci :: CCM's dance division presents a night of premieres |
| | Neoclassical ballet uses traditional ballet vocabulary but is generally more expansive than the classical structure, allowing for more extreme tempos and technical feats, according to promotional material. | | | In Qi Jang’s neoclassical style ballet, Life and Death, dancers move to the music of Franz Shubert. | | | He has studied with the Joffrey Ballet and Twyla Tharp Dancers in New York and at the Beijing Dance Academy, to name a few. |
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http://www.aroundcinci.com/gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=2786
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| | Guy Clark - The Official Site |
| | Nashville Ballet presents a varied repertoire of classical pieces and contemporary works by noted choreographers, as well as original works, which are performed worldwide, by Artistic Director Paul Vasterling. | | | She was awarded the Grand Prize for Choreography at the International Choreographic Competition Saint Sauveur 2000 for her ballet Shattered Night, which was created on the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. | | | Two other ballets also will be featured - George Balanchine's playful neoclassical ballet Square Dance and Artistic Director Paul Vasterling's passionate The Night of the Iguana, based on the Tennessee Williams short story. |
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http://www.guyclark.com
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| | Tucson Weekly : Arts : From a Beaning to Ballet |
| | Villella hated the rigid steps at first, but it wasn't long before he realized that ballet was the perfect medium for his high-flying energy. | | | Balanchine, a classically trained Russian, was creating something new, an abstracted "neoclassical" ballet stripped of old-world romanticism and energized by America. | | | Growing up Italian in Bayside, "I used to hang out on the streets of Queens," while his sister was indoors, pointing and flexing in ballet class. |
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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Arts/Content?oid=oid:61537
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| | Paul Vasterling Takes Seasons to Portland, Oregon |
| | Nashville Ballet performs a varied repertoire of classical pieces and contemporary works by noted choreographers, as well as Artistic Director Paul Vasterling’s own works which are known and performed both nationally and worldwide. | | | In 1997 Vasterling was asked by Oregon Ballet Theater Artistic Director James Canfield to participate in the American Choreographer’s Showcase by creating a ballet for this program of new works. | | | Nashville Ballet also performed the piece in the fall 2000 season. |
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http://www.danceronline.com//news/298741906/501926/?format=print
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| | Performance: Washington Ballet: Winter Program: Icons! Feb 20 - 24, 2002 |
| | A tartan twist on neoclassical ballet, Twyla Tharp's radiant, rambunctious and witty work sports kilts and tutus fashioned by Isaac Mizrahi; and the highland sounds of Michel Colombier and Percy Grainger (Country Gardens and Handel in the Strand). | | | Whether you're new to ballet - or a connoisseur - you'll be dazzled by the artistry and choreographic genius displayed on this program. | | | Tharp has made a generous pledge to the Washington Ballet's community and educational programs for the 2001-2002 season. |
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http://kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=RCICO
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | Houston Ballet ("Houston Ballet is America's fifth largest ballet company, an ensemble of fifty-one dancers who have been hailed by The New York Times as 'one of the nation's best ballet companies'") | | | Ballet Alert (site "devoted to classical and neoclassical ballet [with] information about dancers, companies, and ballets." Dance links, reviews, and extensive message board on all aspects of ballet.) (Alexandra Tomalonis and others) | | | Boston Ballet ("the first professional repertory ballet company in New England [...] is now one of the major ballet companies in North America and among the top companies in the world") |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3640
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| | UGA Ballet Ensemble presents its Spring Gala |
| | Kuharsky, artistic director of the Greenville Ballet of South Carolina, has danced professionally as a soloist with Les Grand Ballets Canadiens in Montreal and as a principal dancer with the Atlanta Ballet. | | | The concert features Adjustable Wrench, a 12-minute neoclassical ballet choreographed for the UGA Ballet Ensemble by Andrew Kuharsky, to an original score by Michael Torke. | | | He has choreographed works for several American ballet companies. |
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http://www.uga.edu/columns/010416/preview.html
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| | SpecialEvents |
| | While guests enjoy one of three meal choices and dessert in the ambiance of Polarity’s temporary residence at 119 South President Street in bustling downtown Jackson, the company will perform works from their eclectic repertoire of neoclassical ballet and modern dance. | | | A collection of traditional, restaged and original choreography, Polarity Dance Theatre’s repertoire is carefully selected and conveyed through techniques and styles ranging from post modern dance to classical ballet. | | | Make Lunch a Moving Experience: Polarity to host “Brown Bag Ballet, Modern on the Side, Please” on April 20 and 21, 2004 |
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http://www.polaritydance.org/SpecialEvents.html
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| | King Douglas Links |
| | "All things ballet and dance in the world and the UK in great depth" | | | Augustus van Heerden's FREE bulletin board for the dance communityunited kingdom |
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| | PlaybillArts: News: Dance Theatre of Harlem Ballet School Closes |
| | The Dance Theatre of Harlem has closed its ballet school, the New York Times reports. | | | PlaybillArts: News: Dance Theatre of Harlem Ballet School Closes | | | Parents of ballet students were asked to sign petitions pledging support for the school, which was founded by Mitchell along with the company in 1969, and to call their congressional representatives and city council members asking for help. |
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| | Rasta's Teachers |
| | Shan Yee Poon: Ballet Teacher, San Francisco, CA Susan Hayward: Ballet Teacher, Pacifica, CA Ronin Kuresh: Contemporary Dance, Philadelphia, PA Rennie Harris: Hip Hop/Contemporary Dance, Philadelphia, PA Kenji Usui: Ballet Mentor, Osaka, Japan | | | Valia Seiskaya: Ballet Coach, St. James, NY Rudolph Kharatian: Ballet Coach and Choreographer | | | Anatoli Kucheruk: Kirov Academy: Former Ballet Teacher and Coach |
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http://www.rastathomas.com/teachers.html
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| | Danceview Magazine - Find, Compare, and Buy at Shopping.com |
| | Also, serves as a forum for adult ballet students, and includes calendars, artistic questions, and interviews... | | | Also, serves as a forum for adult ballet students, and includes calendars, artistic questions, and interviews and editorials addressing important issues. | | | Covers topics such as clarity of composition, serenity of style, line, and placement. |
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