What is ballet in New York?
The New York City Ballet is a world-class ballet company that has performed in Europe, Taiwan, Sicily, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Russia and the capitals of the US and Canada. Society was a spiritual child Lincoln Kirstein, who wanted to establish a school where American dancers could train the best ballet teachers in the world. He longed to create a company that performed modern works instead of relying on tourist groups of foreign dance stars. Two years later they created a short -term company called American Ballet. After the demise of the American ballet Kirstein fought in World War II, while Balanchine acted as a choreographer for the famous Russe de Monte Carlo ballet.
After the war, both men returned to their dream of creating an American dance society. In 1946 they founded a ballet company. Until 1948, the escorts were renamed ballet in New York. Despite the early struggles, the school and the company flourished and existed to this day. This withTulle boasted a combination of Russian, Italian and French ballet traditions with the American Askerse of emotions and musicality. As a result, the ballet in New York has become one of the most praised companies in the world.
Ballet in New York costs 23 weeks each year. The ballet performances take place in the New York State Theater, in a place that first opened its door to April 24, 1964. Since 1966, its Saratoga Performing Arts Center, also located in New York, has been its Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
The company consists of about 90 dancers and is the largest dance organization in the US, has a repertoire of about 150 ballets, most of them choreograpovalageorge Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. The famous past ballet dancers in New York include Maria Tallchief, André Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Todd Bolender, Suzanne Farrell, Edward Villella and Jacques d'Amboise. Society is devoted to preserving both balalalanch ideasLU, so pioneering ballets.
American ballet School is an official school of ballet in New York, which is to train dancers in the style of NYCB (New York City Ballet). The school is located in the building of Samuel B. and David Rose at the Lincoln Center. About 350 students from all over the US and the world attend the prestigious ballet academy.
Balanchine remained the leader of the company until his death in 1983. Peter Martins and Jerome Robbins were named his successors and served as the chief boss. In 1990, Robbins did not serve in this capacity and left Martins as the head of the only ballet.