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    George Balanchine (/ˈbælən(t)ʃiːn, ˌbælənˈ(t)ʃiːn/; born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; Russian: Георгий Мелитонович Баланчивадзе; Georgian: გიორგი...
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  • New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday, 13 April 1967 at the New York State Theater...
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    Irina Baronova (category Romanian expatriates in France)
    Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants...
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  • Balanchine technique or Balanchine method is the ballet performance style invented by dancer, choreographer, and teacher George Balanchine (1904–1983)...
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    choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Balanchine's first completely...
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  • informed choreographer George Balanchine about this discovery. In 1947, as a guest ballet master at the Paris Opera Ballet, Balanchine choreographed the ballet...
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  • He lived in Paris from 1933 to 1936, serving as music director of Balanchine's Paris Ballet, then conducting for two years in Australia. In 1936 Abravanel...
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    Tamara Toumanova (category Paris Opera Ballet étoiles)
    theory with Balanchine. Seasons in Monte Carlo and Paris and tour of Europe. 1933: Joins the Balanchine-James Les Ballets 1933 at Balanchine's invitation...
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  • La Valse is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Maurice Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales and La Valse. It premiered on February 20, 1951...
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    Franz; Shaun O'Brian portrayed Dr. Coppélius. In Act III, Balanchine added 24 young girls to dance and be in the scene during Waltz of the Hours, Dawn (L'aurore)...
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    Maria Tallchief (category Paris Opera Ballet étoiles)
    months in Paris, Tallchief and Balanchine returned to New York. During her time in Paris, Tallchief became the first American to perform with the Paris Opera...
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  • Sins premiered in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on 7 June 1933. It was produced, directed and choreographed by George Balanchine with mise en...
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  • Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet is a one-act ballet by George Balanchine, to Johannes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1, orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg. The ballet...
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    George Balanchine, who subsequently choreographed it as a neoclassical ballet based on the theory of the four temperaments. The music was premiered in Switzerland...
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    of the first celebrity American-born and -trained ballerinas. Balanchine revised it in 1970 with Jerome Robbins, the latter of whom choreographed Koschei...
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    ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with...
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    headquarters of his ballet company was located in Paris, France. A protégé of Diaghilev, George Balanchine, founded the New York City Ballet Company. During...
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    "George Balanchine | the George Balanchine Foundation". Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2008. George Balanchine Kiley...
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    Benjamin Millepied (category Paris Opera Ballet artistic directors)
    Retrieved 2 June 2010. Macaulay, Alastair (14 May 2009). "Dance Review: World Premieres, Balanchine and the Tutu Deconstructed". The New York Times....
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  • he had danced works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky and Justin Peck. In October 2017, Fairchild left the...
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    Petipa to Balanchine, considers George Balanchine's Apollo in 1928 to be the first neoclassical ballet. Apollo represented a return to form in response...
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    City Ballet as a principal dancer for one season to learn about George Balanchine's neoclassical Russian style of movement. He then returned to the American...
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  • Joy Womack (category American expatriates in Russia)
    Ukraine. Womack danced with the Paris Opera Ballet as an extra-dancer of the corps de ballet for the Balanchine show in February 2023 and performed at...
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    Suzanne Farrell (category Balanchine Trust repetiteurs)
    In 1965, she was promoted to principal dancer. Her first role in her new title was Agon with Arthur Mitchell at the Paris Opera. George Balanchine quickly...
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  • Balanchine's last major work. Balanchine had previously choreographed to the same score in 1933, for his short-lived troupe Les Ballets 1933 in Paris...
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    costumes design by Sergey Tchekhonin. She began to design costumes for Balanchine ballets in 1949 with Emmanuel Chabrier's “Bourrèe Fantasque,” for the newly...
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  • co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna, 1762; Paris, 1774). The premiere took place Wednesday...
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    young George Balanchine (1904–1983). In 1924, Balanchine, then a dancer, fled a Soviet dance company on tour in Germany and came to Paris, where Diaghilev...
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  • Giselle (1842) Jean Coralli: Giselle (1842) George Balanchine: Le Palais de cristal (Symphony in C) (1947) Carlo Blasis Arthur Saint-Léon: Coppélia (1870)...
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  • each liked to be the director in charge. As Balanchine was allowed more of a role, however, it was clear that the Balanchine-Stravinsky relationship was...
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