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Astarte (ballet)
''Astarte'', choreographed by Robert Joffrey, was the first live, multi-media ballet with a specially commissioned rock music score composed and performed by Crome Syrcus. It received its world premier on September 20, 1967, and was performed by the Joffrey Ballet in New York City at the City Center Theater. It was produced by Midge Mackenzie, with sets and lighting design by Thomas R. Skelton, Thomas Skelton, costumes by Hugh Sherrer, and film created and photographed by Gardner Compton. ''Astarte'' made the cover of ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine in March 1968. References External links The Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422184458/http://arpinojoffreyfoundation.org/ , date=2013-04-22 Ballets by Midge Mackenzie 1967 ballets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Joffrey
Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington to a Pashtuns, Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy. Life and work Joffrey began his dance training at nine years old in Seattle as a remedy for asthma under instructor Mary Anne Wells. He later studied ballet and modern dance in New York City, and made his debut in 1949 with the French choreographer Roland Petit and his Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris. From 1950 to 1955, he taught at the New York High School for the Performing Arts, where he staged his earliest ballets. He founded thJoffrey Ballet Schoolin New York City in 1953, where it remains as a separate organization from The Joffrey Academy of Dance in Chicago, which is the official school of the Joffrey Ballet Company. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crome Syrcus
Crome may refer to: People * August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753–1833), German economist * Georg Ernst Wilhelm Crome (1781–1813), German agricultural scientist; see Franz Körte * John Crome (1768–1821), English painter and founder of the Norwich School of painters * John Berney Crome (1794–1842), English painter * Louise Crome, New Zealand squash player Other * Crome, former name of Chrome, California Chrome (formerly Crome) is an unincorporated community in Glenn County, California. It is located north of Elk Creek, at an elevation of 935 feet (285 m). The community lies on Country Road 306. Its zip code is 95963. Chrome is named for th ..., a community in Glenn County See also * Chrome (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joffrey Ballet
The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during its annual performance season at the Civic Opera House, including its annual presentation of ''The Nutcracker''. Founded in 1956 by dance pioneers Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, the company has earned a reputation for boundary-breaking performances, including its 1987 presentation of Vaslav Nijinsky's ''The Rite of Spring'', which reconstructed the original choreography from the 1913 premiere that was thought to be lost. Many choreographers have worked with the Joffrey, including Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, and George Balanchine. History From its foundation in 1956 through the mid-1960s, Joffrey's and Arpino's dance company initially toured the United States and sometimes other parts of the world (for example: the Soviet Union in 1963). The dance company gained its first permanent residency in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midge Mackenzie
Margaret Rose "Midge" MacKenzie, (6 March 1938 – 28 January 2004) was a London-born writer and filmmaker who first become known for producing Robert Joffrey's multimedia ballet ''Astarte (ballet), Astarte'' with the Joffrey Ballet, and ''Women Talking'', a documentary with interviews of Kate Millett, Betty Friedan and other leading figures in the US women's liberation movement. Biography After reading the work of psychoanalyst Alice Miller (psychologist), Alice Miller, MacKenzie started exploring the meaning of her childhood and from this came ''Prisoners of Childhood'' (1991) in which actors brought out themes of pain and damage from early years. She made the wonderful ''I Stand Here Ironing'' (1980) based on the Tillie Olsen stories, and later a trilogy of films looking at remote communities in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. ''Saving Faces'' documented the patients whose faces had been reconstructed by surgeon Ian Hutchison, who is the chief executive of the charity Saving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas R
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Sherrer
Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). The Germanic name is on record beginning in the 8th century, in variants ''Chugo, Hugo, Huc, Ucho, Ugu, Uogo, Ogo, Ougo,'' etc. The name's popularity in the Middle Ages ultimately derives from its use by Frankish nobility, beginning with Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris Hugh the Great (898–956). The Old French form was adopted into English from the Norman period (e.g. Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury d. 1098; Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, d. 1101). The spelling ''Hugh'' in English is from the Picard variant spelling '' Hughes'', where the orthography ''-gh-'' takes the role of ''-gu-'' in standard French, i.e. to express the phoneme /g/ as opposed to the affricate /ʒ/ taken by the grapheme ''g'' before front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Compton
Gardner may refer to: People and fictional characters *Gardner (given name) *Gardner (surname) Places United States *Gardner, Colorado *Gardner, Illinois *Gardner, Kansas *Gardner, Massachusetts * Gardner, North Dakota * Gardner, Tennessee *Gardner, Wisconsin * Gardner Mountain, Washington state * Gardner Pinnacles Hawaii * Gardner Point, a mountain in Glacier National Park, Montana * Gardner River, Yellowstone National Park, Montana and Wyoming Elsewhere * Gardner Inlet in Antarctica * Gardner Canal in British Columbia, Canada * Gardner Island or Nikumaroro, part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati * Gardner (crater) on the Moon Other uses * L. Gardner and Sons Ltd., Manchester, England, a builder of diesel engines * Gardner (automobile), a car maker based in St. Louis, Missouri, between 1920 and 1931 * Gardner snake, any species of North American snake within the genus ''Thamnophis'', more properly called garter snakes * Gardner gun, an early machine gun See also * Gardner's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps as ''TIME'') is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published Weekly newspaper, weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. History 20th century ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballets By Midge Mackenzie
Margaret Rose "Midge" MacKenzie, (6 March 1938 – 28 January 2004) was a London-born writer and filmmaker who first become known for producing Robert Joffrey's multimedia ballet ''Astarte'' with the Joffrey Ballet, and ''Women Talking'', a documentary with interviews of Kate Millett, Betty Friedan and other leading figures in the US women's liberation movement. Biography After reading the work of psychoanalyst Alice Miller, MacKenzie started exploring the meaning of her childhood and from this came ''Prisoners of Childhood'' (1991) in which actors brought out themes of pain and damage from early years. She made the wonderful ''I Stand Here Ironing'' (1980) based on the Tillie Olsen stories, and later a trilogy of films looking at remote communities in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. ''Saving Faces'' documented the patients whose faces had been reconstructed by surgeon Ian Hutchison, who is the chief executive of the charity Saving Faces. Hutchison recalls, "She followed us aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
