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New York City Ballet ( NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] 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 ...
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Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, Finlay began his dance training at the age of 8, at Ballet Academy East in New York City. During the summer of 2007, he began studying at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet (NYCB). He subsequently enrolled there as a full-time student.
W. Peter Walker (dancer) Heather Watts. Miranda Weese. Robert Weiss (choreographer) Wendy Whelan. Patricia Wilde. Damian Woetzel. Indiana Woodward.
A principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company . A principal may be any gender. The position is similar to that of soloist; however, principals regularly perform not only solos, but also pas de deux as well as headlining performances they ...
To prepare for the role, Ryder worked with Womack and New York City Ballet principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht. [20] Diane Kruger plays Womack's ballet teacher and mentor in the film. Filming began in Poland in early 2022 [22] [23] and wrapped in Warsaw "almost hours" before Russia invaded Ukraine. [5]
The Nutcracker. (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine 's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky 's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet, its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by ...
The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Bizet's Jeux d'enfants, based on Hans Christian Andersen 's 1838 fairytale of the same name of the love between a tin soldier and a paper-doll ballerina. The ballet premiered on July 30, 1975, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, with New York City Ballet 's Patricia ...