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New York ballet has cachet Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Chicago - The New York City Ballet made a rare trip to the Midwest Oct. 17-21, touching down at the new Harris Theater in Yenni, Memtsas stadiums to be renovated New Orleans Times-Picayune Jefferson Parish Athletic Director Manny Barocco couldn't contain his enthusiasm. "This is the biggest thing ever done for Jefferson Parish athletics," he said. "It is monumental." Morris and the master at ABT Newsday George Balanchine loved the Russian tradition of imperial ballet in which he was raised. In "Symphonie Concertante," reprised this season after several years, a large corps of women frames, embellishes and kneels before a prince and two queens. The dancers execute bright, polite steps with the crisp precision of military officers, never trespassing on the space they delimit for their superiors. Recomposing Mozart St. Petersburg Times In the 250th year of his birth, many opera companies insist on updating the master, with mixed results. `Temperaments' a Balanchine journey Chicago Tribune The works of George Balanchine all take a journey, a tale often told with form and design replacing plot. New York troupe worth 26-year wait Chicago Tribune Critics are charged with sifting through pros and cons, analyzing meaning, ferreting out nuance, saluting achievement and carping at failure. New York City Ballet makes rare Chicago visit Chicago Sun-Times Travel back more than half a century in American cultural history and you will see that the notion of a ballet company born and bred in this country was in many ways a whole new concept. Vienna's Theater an der Wien Announces Season, Including Reunion of Diretcor Patrice Chereau and Conductor Pierre Boulez Playbill Arts xxx Dancing into the big time The Wichita Eagle Not just any dance troupe can perform a masterpiece ballet by George Balanchine. The New York City Ballet can. After all, Balanchine himself founded that company in 1946. He trained its dancers; he created his ballets especially for them.
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