Word: ballets
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...good artist leaves behind works of value when he dies. When a great artist dies, he leaves an entire landscape transformed. George Balanchine, the protean choreographer whose centenary is being celebrated this year by ballet companies the world over, left his imprint virtually everywhere in dance. Take a look at the typical American ballerina today: long, leggy, prodigiously athletic compared with the more compact, sedate ballerina of old. That?s the female figure that Balanchine cultivated - and glorified in so many of his works. Consider the prevalence today of ballets stripped of fairy-tale plots and elaborate costumes and sets...
...Balanchine?s greatest transformations was on the other side of the footlights. When he and his patron Lincoln Kirstein founded the New York City Ballet in 1948, the audience for ballet in the U.S. was on a par with that for, say, dog shows or jai alai. Today, although support for orchestras and theater companies is wavering, ballet is booming, with new companies proliferating and talented youngsters springing up continually. Much of the credit goes to Balanchine, to the brilliance of his 400-plus works and to the seminal influence of the NYCB and its satellite School of American Ballet...
...championship. No, they’re not putting on the pads for the squads they manage, but they are clearly doing what they can to get a piece of the Slam-tastic action—even if it means coaching, and not partaking, in the angry, physically improbable ballet that SlamBall provides...
...addition to taking dance classes through the Office for the Arts since my freshman year, I perform and choreograph for several companies. This is my second year serving as Co-Ballet Mistress of the Harvard Ballet Company, meaning I run rehearsals, stage ballets, and choreograph. It’s a job I love completely! I’ve also performed in dance shows at the Loeb and I submit works for Arts First every year. On the administrative side, I’ve been doing a lot of work lobbying for a new space for dance and planning...
Harvard’s Dance Program of the OFA presents its annual spring concert, featuring the work of student choreographers as well as professionals in the Boston dance scene, including Lazlo Berdo, Elizabeth Bergmann (director of the Dance Program), Jodi Allen and Adrienne Hawkins. See modern, ballet, jazz, and more; students and teachers dance together in this varied performance. Runs March 18 through March 20. Tickets $10 regular, $8 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Reiman Center for the Performing Arts in Radcliffe Yard...