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...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...
...music, particularly that of Igor Stravinsky, a personal and artistic soulmate to whose scores he set 39 works. Instead of elaborately plotting his ballets in advance, he simply rolled up his sleeves and went to work with his dancers. ?Choreography just kept pouring out of him,? says Helgi Tomasson. ?He made up the steps in the studio. I could barely keep up with him. I remember one solo he choreographed in an hour and 20 minutes. It was astonishing...