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...sign. The hockey gods had orchestrated a cosmic ballet as a prelude to something special...
...Balanchine died in 1983 at age 79. Today no fewer than 34 U.S. ballet companies are run by people he trained, among them the San Francisco Ballet (directed by Helgi Tomasson), the Miami City Ballet (Edward Villella) and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet in Washington. Countless other Balanchine alumni are serving as ballet masters, choreographers and teachers. ?No other modern choreographer has attracted so many devoted followers, and no other body of dances has inspired so thoroughgoing and committed an attempt at long-term preservation,? says critic Terry Teachout, who is writing a short biography of Balanchine. ?It?s a sign...
...Balanchine?s own training couldn?t have been more traditional, and his use of it couldn?t have been more innovative. As a child he absorbed the classical Russian ballet style at the Maryinsky Ballet School in St. Petersburg. Everything in his later career was based on that fundamental dance vocabulary, but he stretched it, opened up its gestures, added more jumps and turns, and gave it a startling new speed, clarity and sharpness of attack. He thought nothing of blending it with highland reels (Scotch Symphony, 1952) or stylized Japanese movements (Bugaku, 1963) or whatever other genre took...
...four of them - Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq - and had liaisons with others. Male or female, close or remote, most of his dancers revered their ?Mr. B.? ?I can?t say that I knew him well,? says former NYCB dancer Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona. ?But his ballets are part of me, his musicality, his timing, his sense of structure. My god, this man did everything.? Those who worked with him, says Edward Villella, ?understood we were in a moment of history. Picasso and Stravinsky changed their art forms in the last century. Balanchine...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—In a cosmic ballet orchestrated by the hockey gods, the two biggest titans in women's college hockey will meet in the final battle of the 2003-2004 season, when No. 1 Minnesota and No. 2 Harvard vie for the NCAA championship in Providence tomorrow afternoon...