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64 relations: A Kiss for Cinderella, Agnes de Mille, Alicia Markova, American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Anna Kisselgoff, Anton Dolin, Antony Tudor, Arcade (ballet), Arthur Mitchell (dancer), Ballet master, Ballet Society, Bolshoi Theatre, Bronislava Nijinska, Catherine Littlefield, Choreography, Citizenship of the United States, Clive Barnes, Covent Garden, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Daphnis and Chloe, David Lichine, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, George de Cuevas, Grace Kelly, Igor Stravinsky, J. M. Barrie, Joffrey Ballet, John Martin (dance critic), La Scala, La sonnambula, Le chant du rossignol, Metropolitan Ballet, Michel Fokine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, New York City, New York City Ballet, Original Ballet Russe, Paris Opera Ballet, PBS, Pièce d'occasion, Pierre Vladimiroff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Random House, Richard Buckle, San Francisco Ballet, Scènes de ballet (Taras), ..., School of American Ballet, Sergei Prokofiev, Soloist (ballet), Souvenir de Florence, Suzanne Farrell, Symphony No. 1 (Schumann), The Firebird, The Pavilion (Scranton, Pennsylvania), The Rite of Spring, The Royal Ballet, Theatre director, Ukrainian nationality law, Wassily de Basil, 1939 New York World's Fair. Expand index (14 more) »
A Kiss for Cinderella
A Kiss for Cinderella is a play by J. M. Barrie.
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Agnes de Mille
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.
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Alicia Markova
Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet.
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American Ballet
The American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States.
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American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.
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Anna Kisselgoff
Anna Kisselgoff (born 12 January 1938) is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for The New York Times.
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Anton Dolin
Sir Anton Dolin (27 July 190425 November 1983) was an English ballet dancer and choreographer.
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Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor (19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.
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Arcade (ballet)
Arcade is a ballet made by John Taras to Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds (1924).
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Arthur Mitchell (dancer)
Arthur Mitchell (born March 27, 1934) is an African-American dancer and choreographer who created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH).
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Ballet master
Ballet Master (also Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress, Premier Maître de ballet or Premier Maître de ballet en Chef) is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company.
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Ballet Society
Ballet Society is a non-profit educational institution founded in 1946 by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine.
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Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre (p) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances.
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Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska (Bronisława Niżyńska; Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская, Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya, Браніслава Ніжынская); (– February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer.
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Catherine Littlefield
Catherine Littlefield (1908 — 1951) was an American ballerina, choreographer, and artistic director.
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Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.
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Citizenship of the United States
Citizenship of the United States is a status that entails specific rights, duties and benefits.
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Clive Barnes
Clive Alexander Barnes CBE (13 May 1927 – 19 November 2008) was an English writer and critic.
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Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) is an American professional ballet company and school based in Harlem, New York City.
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Daphnis and Chloe
Daphnis and Chloe (Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη, Daphnis kai Chloē) is the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romancer Longus.
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David Lichine
David Lichine (Дэвид (Давид) Лишин; 25 October 1910 – 26 June 1972) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer.
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Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer.
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George Balanchine
George Balanchine (born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; January 22, 1904April 30, 1983) was a choreographer.
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George de Cuevas
Jorge Cuevas Bartholín, known as George de Cuevas (1885 – 22 February 1961), was a Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer who was best known for the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas that he formed in 1944.
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Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929September 14, 1982) was an American film actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III, in April 1956.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.
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J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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Joffrey Ballet
The Joffrey Ballet is a professional dance company resident in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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John Martin (dance critic)
John Martin (June 2, 1893 - May 19, 1985) became America's first major dance critic in 1927.
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La Scala
La Scala (abbreviation in Italian language for the official name Teatro alla Scala) is an opera house in Milan, Italy.
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La sonnambula
La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.
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Le chant du rossignol
Le chant du rossignol (commonly referred to in the USA as The Song of the Nightingale) is a symphonic poem written by Igor Stravinsky in 1917.
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Metropolitan Ballet
Metropolitan Ballet was a short lived British ballet company.
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Michel Fokine
Michael Fokine (a French transliteration Michel Fokine; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin; Михаи́л Миха́йлович Фо́кин, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín) (– 22 August 1942) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (p; Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed "Misha" (Russian diminutive of the name "Mikhail"), is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
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Natalia Makarova
Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.
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Original Ballet Russe
The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev.
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Paris Opera Ballet
The Paris Opera Ballet (French: "Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris") is an integral part of the Paris Opera and the oldest national ballet company.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Pièce d'occasion
A pièce d'occasion is a composition, dance or theatrical piece composed, often commissioned, for a festive occasion.
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Pierre Vladimiroff
Pierre Vladimiroff, or Pyotr Nikolayevich Vladimirov (Пётр Николаевич Владимиров; born February 13, 1893 in Gatchina, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire – died November 25, 1970 in New York City, United States), was a Russian dancer and teacher.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.
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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
Rainier III (born Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi; 31 May 1923 – 6 April 2005) ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs in European history.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Richard Buckle
Christopher Richard Sandford Buckle, CBE, better known as Richard Buckle (6 August 1916 – 12 October 2001), was a lifelong devotee of ballet, and a well-known ballet critic.
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San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as the San Francisco Opera Ballet under the leadership of ballet master Adolph Bolm.
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Scènes de ballet (Taras)
Scènes de ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster John Taras to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1944.
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School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet (SAB) is an American classical ballet school and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.
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Soloist (ballet)
In ballet, a soloist is a dancer in a ballet company above the corps de ballet but below principal dancer.
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Souvenir de Florence
The String Sextet in D minor "Souvenir de Florence", Op.
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Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Farrell began her ballet training at the age of eight.
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Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)
The Symphony No.
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The Firebird
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu; Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
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The Pavilion (Scranton, Pennsylvania)
The Pavilion (originally known as the Montage Mountain Performing Arts Center) is an outdoor amphitheater located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, within the Montage Mountain Ski Resort.
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The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps; sacred spring) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
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The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.
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Theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is an instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.
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Ukrainian nationality law
Ukrainian nationality law is the law of Ukraine which concerns citizenship.
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Wassily de Basil
Wassily de Basil (16 September 1888 – 27 July 1951), usually referred to as Colonel W. de Basil, was a Russian ballet impresario.
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1939 New York World's Fair
The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taras
