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Harkness Ballet
The Harkness Ballet (1964–1975) was a New ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings, and was a dance lover. Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet, but when they refused to rename the company in her honor, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffrey dancers for her new company. Joffrey Ballet later moved to Chicago, and continues to function. Background Harkness Ballet, established in 1964, gave its debut performance in Cannes in 1965, with George Skibine as director, Marjorie Tallchief as ballerina and a repertory featuring work by Alvin Ailey, Skibine, Eric Bruhn, Brian Macdonald (choreographer), Brian Macdonald and Stuart Hodes, the company mostly toured abroad, in the major theaters of Europe, to great acclaim, giving its dancers and choreographers a cosmopolitan experience unknown to most of their American colleagues. Its New York debut was in 1967 and Macdonald was also appointed director, suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Harkness
Rebekah West Harkness (née Semple West; April 17, 1915June 17, 1982) also known as Betty Harkness, was an American composer, socialite, sculptor, dance patron, and philanthropist who founded the Harkness Ballet. In 1947, she married William Hale "Bill" Harkness, an attorney and heir to the Standard Oil fortune of William L. Harkness, which made her one of the wealthiest women in America. In addition to her marriage, Harkness also became well known for her personal eccentricities, as well as her contributions to the arts. Early life Rebekah Semple West was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1915. She was the second daughter of three children to Allen Tarwater West, a stockbroker and co-founder of G. H. Walker & Co., and Rebekah Cook (née Semple) West. Her grandfather founded the Union Trust Bank Company Building, St. Louis Union Trust Company. Neither parent was involved in the upbringing of the children, leaving them to be raised primarily by nannies. Harkness took up dancing and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Van Dantzig
Rudi van Dantzig (4 August 1933 – 19 January 2012) was a Dutch choreographer, company director, and writer. He was a pivotal figure in the rise to world renown of Dutch ballet in the latter half of the twentieth century. He was co-director and then artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet from 1968 and 1991, and later did choreography for major companies such as Ballet Rambert, The Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet. Early life and education Rudi van Dantzig was born on 4 August 1933 in Amsterdam, where his father, Murk van Dantzig, worked in a Fokker aircraft factory. His parents held strongly leftwing views, espousing Marxism, advocating pacifism, and promoting Esperanto.Anna Kisselgoff, "Rudi van Dantzig, Provocative Dutch Choreographer, Dies at 78," obituary, '' International New York Times'', 26 January 2012. He was six years old when the German army defeated Dutch forces in the Battle of the Netherlands in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunilda Ruiz
Brunilda Ruiz ( – ) was a Puerto Rican ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She toured internationally as a founding member of the Joffrey Ballet and Harkness Ballet companies. Biography Ruiz was born in Rincón, Puerto Rico, and raised in Spanish Harlem in New York City. She had four sisters and two brothers. Ruiz started dancing at age 12. She attended the High School for the Performing Arts later known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, where Robert Joffrey taught her ballet. In 1956, Joffrey asked Ruiz to be one of the six original Joffrey Ballet members. Ruiz was the youngest of the group, which also included Gerald Arpino, Glen Tetley, Beatrice Tompkins, Dianne Consoer, and John W. Wilson (to whom Ruiz was married from 1956 to 1967 and had a daughter Mhari Theresa Wilson). With the Joffrey Ballet, Ruiz toured the country, with her daughter in tow, performing one-night-only shows and introducing ballet as an art form t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lar Lubovitch
Lar Lubovitch (born April 9, 1943) is an American choreographer. He founded his own dance company, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Based in New York City, the company has performed in all 50 American states as well as in more than 30 countries. As of 2005, he had choreographed more than 100 dances for the company. In addition to the company, Lubovitch has also done creative work in ballet, ice-skating venues, and musical theater, notably ''Into the Woods''. He has played a key role in raising funds to fight AIDS. Early life and education Born in Chicago, Lubovitch was educated at the University of Iowa and at New York City's Juilliard School, where he graduated in 1964. His teachers at Juilliard included Antony Tudor, José Limón, Anna Sokolow and Martha Graham. Career Lubovitch danced in numerous modern, ballet, jazz and ethnic companies before forming the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. His works are included in the repertories of companies throughout the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finis Jhung
Finis Jhung (born May 27, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, dance company founder and dance teacher. Early life Jhung was born on May 27, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His multiracial heritage includes Korean, Scottish and English ancestors. The youngest of three sons, born to Caroline and Walter Jhung, Finis' parents ran a tailor shop on Oahu's Hickam Air Force Base. The building was damaged, but not destroyed, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At the end of World War II, as soldiers left the base, the Jhungs' business suffered. Finis' disconsolate father packed up and left Hawaii for the mainland. His mother filed for divorce which was granted in 1945 when Finis was nine years old. As a child he studied tap, ballet, acrobatics and hula. As a teen, Jhung auditioned for Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova, then on tour in Hawaii. Dolin suggested that Jhung come see him when he "grew up." Finis began studying ballet in earnest at the University of Utah, where he trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Jamison
Judith Ann Jamison (; May 10, 1943 – November 9, 2024) was an American dancer and choreographer. She danced with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1965 to 1980 and was Ailey's muse. She later returned to be the company's artistic director from 1989 until 2011, and then its artistic director emerita. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, and the Handel Medallion, New York City's highest cultural honor, in 2010. Early training Judith Jamison was born in 1943 to Tessie Brown Jamison and John Jamison Sr. and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her parents and older brother. Her father taught her to play the piano and violin. She was exposed to the prominent art culture in Philadelphia very early. She began her dance training at the Judimar School of Dance at six. There she studied with Marion Cuyjet, who became one of Jamison's early mentors. Under Cuyjet's tutelage, Jamison studied classical ballet and modern danc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lone Isaksen
Lone may refer to: People * Destroy Lonely, a nickname for the artist * Lone (given name), a given name (including a list of people with this name) * Lone (musician), Matt Cutler, an electronic musician from Nottingham, United Kingdom * Lone (surname), a surname (including a list of people with this surname) *Lone Fight (other), a family name Places * Lone (river), a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Lone Grove, Oklahoma * Lone Jack, Missouri * Lone Mountain (other) * Lone Oak (other), a number of places with the same name * Lone Peak * Lone Pine (other), a number of places with the same name * Lone Rock (other), a number of places with the same name * Lone Teepee * Lone Tree (other), a number of places with the same name Art and entertainment *"Lone", a song by Tyler, the Creator, from ''Wolf'' *''Lone'', a comic by Stuart Moore * Lone Sloane, a French comic character Other uses * Loner, a person who avoids or does not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hancock
Barbara Hancock (born November 21, 1949) is an American actress and dancer. While she was with the Harkness Ballet, she appeared as a dancing character in five productions in television and film. She was nominated for the 1968 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role as Susan the Silent in '' Finian's Rainbow''. Filmography *''Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Creat ...'' (1968) as Minette, in episode " Trina" *'' Finian's Rainbow'' (1968) as Susan the Silent *''Cry for Poor Wally'' (1969) as Betsy *'' The Night God Screamed'' (1971) as Nancy Coogan *''Fair Play'' (1972 television film) as Pearlie Purvis References External links 1949 births Harkness Ballet dancers American film actresses American stage actresses Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Eglevsky
Marina Eglevsky is an American ballet dancer born in New York City. She is the daughter of ballet star Andre Eglevsky and ballerina Leda Anchutina Eglevsky. Marina studied at the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School. Marina performed professionally in New York City Ballet's production of ''The Nutcracker,'' with the Eglevsky Ballet Company, and as a guest in various companies and engagements. At the age of fifteen, Marina Eglevsky joined the Harkness Ballet The Harkness Ballet (1964–1975) was a New ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings, and was a dance lover. Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet, but when they refused ... Company and launched her own successful dance career. She later was principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet. She danced with dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lawrence Rhodes, Helgi Tomasson and skater John Curry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Aponte
Christopher Aponte is an American classical ballet dancer. Aponte was born in the borough of Manhattan, then moved, at the age of three, to live in the Bronx. Aponte attended the High School of Performing Arts and received a scholarship to the National Academy of Ballet. Upon graduation, Aponte was enrolled on scholarship to the trainee program of the Harkness Ballet School. He made his dance debut in a public performance at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Shortly after his debut, Aponte entered the Harkness Ballet Company Elson, John T. (April 22, 1974)"An Expense of Sprirt" ''Time''. and rose to become principal dancer. He has traveled extensively with his partner, Gelsey Kirkland. Aponte has performed as principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Alvin Ailey Company, and was artistic director of the Spokane Ballet. Aponte has choreographed over forty ballets and is especially known for his interpretation of Ravel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Wayne Swayze ( ; August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and comedic roles in blockbusters and cult films, Swayze was nominated for three Golden Globes and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997. Swayze received recognition for acting in the drama film ''The Outsiders'' (1983), the action film '' Red Dawn'' (1984), and the miniseries ''North and South'' (1985–1986). His breakthrough came with the romantic drama film '' Dirty Dancing'' (1987), receiving a Golden Globe nomination. He rose to further prominence in the action films '' Road House'' (1989) and ''Point Break'' (1991), and received two more Golden Globe nominations for his roles in the supernatural romance film ''Ghost'' (1990) and the road comedy film '' To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'' (1995). He also starred in the cult thriller ''Donnie Darko'' (2001). Outside of acting, Swayze co-wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Leritz
Lawrence Leritz (born September 26, 1952) is an American actor, dancer, singer, producer, director, fitness expert and choreographer. Life and career Born in Alton, Illinois, Leritz made his stage debut in the children's chorus of the world stage premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical ''State Fair'' at The Muny, starring Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, directed by James Hammerstein, supervised by Richard Rodgers, conducted by Anton Coppola and choreographed by Tommy Tune. Leritz moved to New York City with scholarships to the Harkness Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and the School of American Ballet under George Balanchine, studying with Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams and the Bolshoi's Māris Liepa. While dancing in a company class at The New York City Ballet, he was discovered by Balanchine ballerina Violette Verdy who invited him to join The Hamburg Ballet. Leritz continued his dancing career on the international stages, starring with Ruth Page's Chicago Ballet, Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
