Word: kirstein
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...pioneer American ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher who had been director or co-director of the San Francisco Ballet since 1952; of a heart attack; in Burlingame, Calif. He started his career in the 1930s as America's first major male star, dancing for George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in a precursor of today's New York City Ballet. Creator of such popular, diverse works as Filling Station and Con Amore, Christensen, with his dancing brothers Harold and Willam, helped to build the quality of ballet in the western...
...1940s, director Plaut and trustees such as Lincoln Kirstein were beginning to bristle at the limitations imposed by the rubric of "modern art." Modern art, by that time, no longer meant the art of the present, but rather served as a term to define a period, a term just like "Neo-Impressionism," or "The Pre-Raphaelites." Feeling that the Boston institution should serve as a place of experimentation in art. Plaut and some of his trustees broke off from MOMA and renamed the institution the Institute of Contemporary Art. "Contemporary Art" began to take on its current meaning, that...
...Balanchine as artistic director of New York City Ballet. There has been no formal announcement. Balanchine's authority, when he is able to exercise it, is still unquestioned. But at 78 he is in very weak health, hospitalized since early November with balance and circulatory problems. Says Lincoln Kirstein, 75, "Mr. B.'s" longtime partner: "Peter Martins is running the company. He is not displacing anyone, or pushing anyone...
...task of succeeding Balanchine, a choreographer of genius and a sublime example of the benevolent despot, is awesome. Why Martins? To Kirstein the matter was clear and simple, like everything else about Martins. "It's awfully hard to ignore the fact that he looks the way he does," says Kirstein. "He is like a Cartier object. There is a moral correspondence between psychology and physique. He is a heroic dancer, with a heroic stance. And his behavior is rather heroic...