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Grazioso (ballet)
''Grazioso'' is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by Peter Martins, its balletmaster-in-chief, to music by Mikhail Glinka. The premiere took place at City Ballet's fall gala on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. Music * '' A Life for the Tsar'', Act II ** Mazurka ** Pas de Quatre ** Cracovienne * ''Ruslan and Ludmila'', Act III ** Pas de Trois Original cast *Ashley Bouder * Gonzalo Garcia *Daniel Ulbricht * Andrew Veyette References *''Repertory Week'', NYCB, Fall season, 2010 repertory, week 1 *'' Playbill'', NYCB, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Reviews NY Timesby Jennifer Dunning Jennifer Dunning (born February 4, 1942) is a writer and critic for ''The New York Times'' on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 ''But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet'', the 1996 ..., November 22, 2007 {{Ruslan and Ludmila Ballets by Peter Martins Ballets to the music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. 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 School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946. History In a 1946 letter, Kirstein stated, "The only justification I have is to enable Balanchine to do exactly what he wants to do in the way he wants to do it."Alastair Macaulay, "A Paragon of the Arts, as Both Man and Titan" (review of Martin Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
