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Chaconne (ballet)
''Chaconne'' is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's '' Orfeo ed Euridice'' (Vienna, 1762; Paris, 1774). The premiere took place Wednesday, 22 January 1976 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted. ''Chaconne'' was danced in practice clothes at its premiere; Karinska's costumes were added in the spring season. The finale to ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' is a ''chaconne'', a dance form built on a short bass phrase and often used by 17th and 18th century opera composers to achieve a festive mood at the end. The choreography was first performed at the Hamburgische Staatsoper in their 1963 production of '' Orpheus und Eurydike'' and somewhat altered in ''Chaconne'', especially that for the principal dancers. Balanchine added the ''pas de deux'' for Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins to the 1976 ballet and the opening ensemble (to the 1774 '' Dance of the ... [...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, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orfeo Ed Euridice (Balanchine)
(; French: '; English: ''Orpheus and Eurydice'') is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the '' azione teatrale'', meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing. The piece was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 5 October 1762, in the presence of Empress Maria Theresa. ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' is the first of Gluck's "reform" operas, in which he attempted to replace the abstruse plots and overly complex music of ''opera seria'' with a "noble simplicity" in both the music and the drama. The opera is the most popular of Gluck's works, and was one of the most influential on subsequent German operas. Variations on its plot—the underground rescue mission in which the hero must control, or conceal, his emotions—can be found in Mozart's ''The Magic Flute'', Beethoven's ''Fidelio'', and Wagner's ''Das Rheingold''. Though originally s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Martins
Peter Martins (born 27 October 1946) is a Danish former ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he was responsible for artistic leadership of City Ballet. Early life Martins was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark.Mary Ellen Snodgrass (2015)''The Encyclopedia of World Ballet,''Rowman & Littlefield. His parents were Børge Martins, an engineer, and Tove Christa Ornberg, a pianist. His maternal aunt and uncle, Leif and Elna Ornberg, members of the Royal Danish Ballet, started teaching him ballroom combinations when he was five years of age; when he applied to ballet school, however, he was the subject of discrimination because his aunt and un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is a former American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Farrell began her ballet training as a child in Cincinnati. In 1960, she received a scholarship to the School of American Ballet. Her first leading roles in ballets came in the early 1960s. A muse of George Balanchine, she left the New York City Ballet in 1969 and subsequently moved to Brussels to dance for Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the 20th Century. In 1975, Farrell moved back to the United States, where she collaborated with Balanchine until his death in 1983; she retired from ballet six years later after a hip surgery she had due to arthritis. Farrell had an unusually long career as a ballet performer, and since her retirement in 1989 has acted as a teacher in numerous ballet schools. She held a teaching position with the New York City Ballet until 1993, and has been a professor of dance at Florida State University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichol Hlinka
Nichol is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Andrew Nichol (born 1974), Australian rules footballer * B. P. Nichol (1944–1988), Canadian poet * Barbara Nichol (born c. 1956), Canadian writer and documentary maker * Cameron Nichol (born 1987), British rower * Camilla Nichol, British geologist * Damian Nichol (1930–2015), South African rower * Dave Nichol (1940–2013), Canadian businessman * David Nichol (cricketer) (1914–1995), Scottish cricketer * Doug Nichol, American filmmaker * Duncan Kirkbride Nichol (born 1941), British hospital administrator * Elizabeth Pease Nichol (1807–1897), English abolitionist and anti-segregationist * Francis D. Nichol (1897–1966), Australian Seventh-day Adventist leader * Fred Joseph Nichol (1912–1996), American judge * Gene Nichol (born 1951), American lawyer and educator * Helen Nichol (born 1981), Canadian badminton player * Jacki Nichol (born 1972), Canadian softball player * James W. Nichol (born 1940), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Flagg
Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia, a town * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula * Laura River (Queensland) * Laura River (Western Australia) Italy * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany United States * Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Laura, Ohio, a village Elsewhere * Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet * Laura, Marshall Islands, a town * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Laura River (Romania) * 467 Laura, an asteroid Arts and entertainment Art * ''Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elyse Borne
This is a list of New York City Ballet dancers. Principal dancers Soloists This is a list of New York City Ballet soloists. Corps de ballet The following is a list of the current members of the corps de ballet. * Victor Abreu * Dominika Afanasenkov * Devin Alberda * Olivia Bell * Olivia Boisson * Jacqueline Bologna * India Bradley * Christina Clark * Lauren Collett * Nieve Corrigan * Naomi Corti * Gabriella Domini * Savannah Durham * Meaghan Dutton-O'Hara * Owen Flacke * David Gabriel * Christopher Grant * Laine Habony * Sarah Harmon * Kennard Henson * Spartak Hoxha * Baily Jones * Charlie Klesa * Alec Knight * Ruby Lister * Malorie Lundgren * Jules Mabie * Alston Macgill * Mary Thomas MacKinnon * Zoe Bliss Magnussen * Shelby Mann * Jenelle Manzi * Noah McAuslin * Samuel Melnikov * Lars Nelson * Maxwell Read * Ava Sautter * Grace Scheffel * Kristen Segin * Mary Elizabeth Sell * Anna Snellgrove * Mckenzie Bernardino Soares * Quinn Starner * Kennedy Targosz * Rommie Toma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonita Borne
Bonita may refer to: Music * "Bonita" (Antônio Carlos Jobim song), 1963 * "Bonita", a song by Álvaro Soler from ''Mar de colores'', 2017 * "Bonita", a song by Daddy Yankee, 2023 * "Bonita", a song by J Balvin, 2017 * "Bonita", a song by Juanes and Sebastián Yatra, 2019 * "Bonita", a song by Maître Gims, 2018 Places Turkey * Bonita (Paphlagonia), an ancient town United States * Bonita, Arizona * Bonita, California * Bonita, Kansas * Bonita, Louisiana * Bonita, Oregon * Bonita, Texas * Bonita, Washington * Bonita, Wisconsin * Bonita Avenue, in Baltimore County, Maryland * Bonita Canyon, in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona * Bonita Channel, a shipping channel in Marin County, California * Bonita Creek, a stream in Orange County, California * Bonita Falls, a set of waterfalls in California Schools * Bonita Elementary School District, Graham County, Arizona * Bonita Unified School District, Los Angeles County, California ** Bonita High School, La Verne, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Flagg
Elise Flagg (born 1951) is an American ballet dancer who worked with George Balanchine as a dancer at the New York City Ballet . Life Elise Flagg was born December 23, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan. Her sister Laura is also a dancer. In the 1960s and 1960s Flagg danced with the New York City Ballet. She was featured in George Balanchine's ''Western Symphony'', '' Ivesiana'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. She also performed in Richard Tanner's ''Octuor''. After Gelsey Kirkland suffered injury, Flagg danced the Nightingale in Kirkland's place in John Taras' production of ''Song of the Nightingale'' at the 1972 Stravinsky Festival. After Kirkland recovered from her injury, Flagg resumed the role of the Mechanical Nightingale opposite her. Flagg runs a dance academy, the Elise Flagg Academy of Dance. In 2020 the academy moved from West Chicago to a new studio in Geneva, Illinois Geneva is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Illinois, United States. It is located in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Frohlich
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 Duberman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Hendl
Susan Coxe Hendl (September 18, 1947 – October 12, 2020) was an American ballet dancer and ''répétiteur''. She danced with the New York City Ballet between 1963 and 1983, then staged and coached works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins for both NYCB and other companies. Early life Hendl was born in New York City to Walter Hendl, a composer and conductor, and Mary Newbold Hendl (née Williams), a visual artist. After Walter Hendl became the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's music director, the family relocated to Dallas. Susan Hendl took a ballet class with Alexandra Danilova, a Russian-born ballerina who taught at the School of American Ballet, when Hendl was in preschool. Following her parents' separation, she and her mother moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and she continued her training with Pennsylvania Ballet founder Barbara Weisberger. In 1959, Hendl entered the School of American Ballet in New York City and studied at the Professional Children's School. Career Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Jolley
Jays are a paraphyletic grouping of passerine birds within the family Corvidae. Although the term "jay" carries no taxonomic weight, most or all of the birds referred to as jays share a few similarities: they are small to medium-sized, usually have colorful feathers and are quite noisy. These superificial characteristics set them apart from most other corvids such as crows, ravens, jackdaws, rooks and magpies, which are larger and have darker plumage. Many so-called "jays" are genetically closer to these other corvids than other jays, however. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into a New World and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
