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...modern-minded National Ballet of Washington, D.C., performed 26 different dances last year while building its season to 94 performances. During its 45-week season, the Utah Civic Ballet plays to an audience of more than 90,000. Like many regional troupes, the Cincinnati Civic Ballet, which has 475 students presently in its school, imports such stellar guests as the New York City Ballet's Violetta Verdy and Edward Villella. It is only fitting. As part of a vast farm system for the larger companies, Cincinnati supplied Balanchine with his reigning ballerina, Suzanne Farrell...
Beyond the Elks. Not even the smaller cities are immune. There are four dance companies in Tacoma, Wash., three in Jacksonville, Fla., one in Huntsville, Ala. In Alaska, the Anchorage Civic Ballet has graduated from the Elks Club to the West High School auditorium, where its performances of Nutcracker attracted sell-out crowds of over...
...beginning to replace the piano as a culture symbol. Manhattan has 70 dance schools, greater Washington, D.C., has 60. Says one Manhattan teacher, surveying the proliferating schools: "They're like bookies -there's one in every basement." Each September, when Balanchine's School of American Ballet holds auditions, the line of hopefuls stretches around the block. The few who are accepted are properly proud and even a little haughty. Says Nanette Glushak, 17, of Manhattan: "We saw a movie of Pav lova the other day, and I can tell you that she was pretty...
Feet in Toe Shoes. One nagging problem is, as always, money. Despite growing national interest, most of the 40 or 50 professional companies in the U.S. are direly pressed to meet their weekly expenses of $10,000 to $100,000. Production costs are prohibitive; the American Ballet Theater, which carries 58 dancers, plus 38 musicians and technicians on tour, plays to packed houses but still loses $10,000 every week it sets its feet on stage. Just to keep those feet in Capezio toe shoes ($9 a pair) costs $1,000 a week...
...needs canvas and paints. But a choreographer needs bodies, and they have to be paid." They are not paid very well; while a top Balanchine star such as Villella or Melissa Hayden can make $20,000 a year, the girls in the New York City's corps de ballet average $7,000. Top pay in the Joffrey troupe is $10,000. Most of the ballet masters see some sort of state or Government aid-a commonplace in Europe-as their only prospect for solvency...