Balanchine The Teacher

Author : Barbara Walczak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balanchine the Teacher written by Barbara Walczak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a technical explanation of the stylistic approach that George Balanchine taught in New York City between 1940 and 1960, as recorded by two prominent dancers who studied with him at the time.

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Publisher : Eakins Press Foundation/Ballet Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871301000
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balanchine Teaching written by and published by Eakins Press Foundation/Ballet Society. This book was released on 2017 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, Nancy Lassalle, long-time ballet patron and associate of Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet, was given permission to photograph a two-day teacher seminar led by George Balanchine at the School of American Ballet in New York City. The nonprofit workshop was intended to elevate the level of ballet education across the United States by inviting teachers from around the country to learn directly from the master of dance. Published for the first time in this slender but exquisitely designed and printed softcover catalog are 14 of Lassalles duotone photographs capturing Balanchine demonstrating various ballet positions, his command of the art and his desire to share that knowledge. The intimate images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of a pivotal moment in the history of American dance. Comments under each image along with a detailed essay by Suki Schorer reveal her deep knowledge of Balanchines teaching and working years.

Author : Barbara Walczak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813048307
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balanchine the Teacher written by Barbara Walczak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a technical explanation of the stylistic approach that George Balanchine taught in New York City between 1940 and 1960, as recorded by two prominent dancers who studied with him at the time.

Author : Suki Schorer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813029771
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique written by Suki Schorer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by George Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach--he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. In Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique, she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet. Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchine's legacy to the future of dance. Abundantly illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchine's ideas on technique and performance.

Author : John Clifford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072018
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balanchine's Apprentice written by John Clifford and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacher In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the guiding inspiration for his life’s work in dance. Growing up in Hollywood with parents in show business, Clifford acted in television productions such as The Danny Kaye Show, The Dinah Shore Show, and Death Valley Days. He recalls the beginning of his obsession with ballet: At age 11 he was cast as the Prince in a touring production of The Nutcracker. The director was none other than the legendary Balanchine, who would eventually invite Clifford to New York City and shape his career as both a mentor and artistic example. During his dazzling tenure with the New York City Ballet, Clifford danced the lead in 47 works, several created for him by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others. He partnered famous ballerinas including Gelsey Kirkland and Allegra Kent. He choreographed eight ballets for the company, his first at age 20. He performed in Russia, Germany, France, and Canada. Afterward, he returned to the West Coast to found the Los Angeles Ballet, where he continued to innovate based on the Balanchine technique. In this book, Clifford provides firsthand insight into Balanchine’s relationships with his dancers, including Suzanne Farrell. Examining his own attachment to his charismatic teacher, Clifford explores questions of creative influence and integrity. His memoir is a portrait of a young dancer who learned and worked at lightning speed, who pursued the calls of art and genius on both coasts of America and around the world.

Author : Jessica Zeller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190296712
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shapes of American Ballet written by Jessica Zeller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian émigrés had been working for decades to build a national ballet with an American identity. These pedagogues and others like them played critical yet largely unacknowledged roles in American ballet's development. Despite their prestigious ballet pedigrees, the dance field's exhaustive focus on Balanchine has led to the neglect of their work during the first few decades of the century, and in this light, this book offers a new perspective on American ballet during the period immediately prior to Balanchine's arrival. Zeller uses hundreds of rare archival documents to illuminate the pedagogies of several significant European and Russian teachers who worked in New York City. Bringing these contributions into the broader history of American ballet recasts American ballet's identity as diverse-comprised of numerous Euro-Russian and American elements, as opposed to the work of one individual. This new account of early twentieth century American ballet is situated against a bustling New York City backdrop, where mass immigration through Ellis Island brought the ballet from European and Russian opera houses into contact with a variety of American forms and sensibilities. Ballet from celebrated Euro-Russian lineages was performed in vaudeville and blended with American popular dance styles, and it developed new characteristics as it responded to the American economy. Shapes of American Ballet delves into ballet's struggle to define itself during this rich early twentieth century period, and it sheds new light on ballet's development of an American identity before Balanchine.

Author : Francis Mason
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Remember Balanchine written by Francis Mason and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various friends and associates of Balanchine recall his impact upon their lives.

Author : Richard Buckle
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 : 9780394539065
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Balanchine, Ballet Master written by Richard Buckle and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of one of the greatest choreographers of all time chronicles his career as a dance student in Russia, his work with Diaghilev and on Broadway, and his founding of the School of American Ballet and The New York City Ballet.

Author : Maria Tallchief
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627797157
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maria Tallchief written by Maria Tallchief and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the story of the legendary ballerina who now adorns a $1 coin and a US quarter! A fascinating self-portrait of the fairy-tale life of a woman who understood that a committed talent could transform the world around her. "Maria Tallchief and American ballet came of age in the same moment.... Her story will always be the story of ballet conquering America. It was and is an American romance."-Arlene Croce, The New Yorker

Author : Zippora Karz
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 142688446X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sugarless Plum written by Zippora Karz and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started as the perfect story. Zippora Karz was a member of the famed New York City Ballet by the age of eighteen. By twenty she was starring as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, dancing roles created by Jerome Robbins, and traveling the world. It was the stuff dreams are made of until, at age twenty-one, Karz was diagnosed with diabetes. Balancing ballet and her blood sugar would be a long and difficult struggle for Karz. In The Sugarless Plum, Karz shares her journey from denial, shame and miseducation about her illness to how she led an active, balanced and satisfying life as an insulin-dependent diabetic and soloist with one of the world's most famous ballet companies. The Sugarless Plum takes readers deep into the heart and soul of a young dancer, and is a remarkable testament to determination and perseverance.