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American Ballet Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American Ballet Theatre is one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century, and a leading company in America. The company was originally founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet, and then reorganized in 1940 with a new name as the Ballet Theatre, with direction from Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. In 1956 it became the American Ballet Theatre, and has kept that name till today. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Ballet_Theatre   (239 words)

DanceWorks SideSteps - American Ballet Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: ) American Ballet Theatre - the company of Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and Gelsey Kirkland - has long been one of America's "big three" ballet companies, a top tier shared with Joffrey Ballet and New York City Ballet. American Ballet Theatre was founded in 1940 as the Ballet Theatre under the direction of dancers Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. ABT is based at the Metropolitan Opera House in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/companies/abt.htm   (384 words)

American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre is a new ballet company, but the nucleus started in 1927. Pleasant had decided that the Mordkin Ballet was too small an undertaking and began to formulate plans for a full-fledged ballet company, Ballet Theatre. I was a viewer at the 10th Anniversary that was held at the Centre Theatre. michaelminn.net /andros/history/american_ballet_theatre.htm   (642 words)

Theatre & Dance   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The ABT tuition is $1500 for the Intensive. Following ABT, she was a principal ballerina with the Bavarian National Ballet in Munich where she added to her repertoire John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Eugene Onegin (for which she received the Abendzeitung Cultural Award); John Neumeir's Nutcracker; Birgit Culberg's Miss Julie; and Balachine's Apollo and Divertimento No. 15. Christine was a Principal dancer with Ballet Arizona in Phoenix (Jean-Paul Comelin, Dir.) from1988 to 1990 where she danced the leads in Comelin’s Nutcracker, Coppelia, Idylle Pas de Deux, and Requiem, as well as in Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. www.utexas.edu /cofa/theatre/abt.html   (2005 words)

American Ballet Theatre Materials at SF PALM   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The American Ballet Theatre originated from the Mordkin Ballet, a performing arm of Mikhail Mordkin's ballet school in New York. The intent of the new company, initially known as Ballet Theatre, was to increase American appreciation of ballet and to recruit local talent to perform an eclectic mixture of classic and contemporary ballets. In 1962, ABT formed an arrangement for financial support from the Washington Ballet Guild and moved its headquarters from New York to Washington; this affiliation lasted for one year and then was disbanded due to financial problems. digilib.nypl.org /dynaweb/dhc/findaid/abtsfp/@Generic__BookTextView/101   (1387 words)

FABULOUS REVIEW: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE It is no surprise that when the American Ballet Theatre performed for the first time in Singapore last week (requests for ABT to perform in Singapore have been turned down repeatedly in the past) those three evenings were the most talked-about among dance and non-dance lovers alike. The American Ballet Theatre, at the zenith of its repute having just celebrated its 60th anniversary gala at the Metropolitan Opera House, presented a programme of mixed repertoire, something that has always been central to the Company's aesthetic. The Kallang Theatre was silent as the spotlight was shone on Marcelo Gomes' effortless lifts and Sandra Brown's flexibility. inkpot.com /theatre/00reviews/00revamerballthea.html   (872 words)

Apogee Foundation Announces Education Grant to American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, founded in 1940, is recognized as one of the great dance companies of the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope and outreach, as a result of which ABT has become perhaps the most recognized and presented American ballet company in the country and around the world. One of ABT’s main missions is to ensure that the traditions of dance and movement are successfully sustained and carried on through education and training. www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/3/emw212561.php   (602 words)

American Ballet Theatre Faculty : Department of Theatre and Dance Following ABT, she was a principal ballerina with the Bavarian National Ballet in Munich where she added to her repertoire John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Eugene Onegin (for which she received the Abendzeitung Cultural Award); John Neumeir's Nutcracker; Birgit Culberg's Miss Julie; and Balachine's Apollo and Divertimento No. 15. Menendez has taught at the ABT Summer Intensive Workshops in Detroit, Alabama and New York and is pleased to be returning to Austin for her second year. She was the original Artistic Coordinator of the ABT Summer Intensive Programs (1996 and 1997), and has remained a primary teacher for all subsequent ABT Summer Intensives (in NYC and Austin, TX). www.finearts.utexas.edu /tad/special_programs/summer_youth_programs/abt_intensive/abt_faculty.cfm   (1573 words)

American Ballet Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Everything was beautiful at the ballet last weekend when American Ballet Theatre visited the Wang Center as part of the BankBoston Celebrity Series. ABT has preserved a varied repertory over the past five decades and even caused a large cache of new works to be created. The ballet opens with Van Chen high in the air, carried on in a graceful lift by Gomes. www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/dance/98/11/19/AMERICAN_BALLET_THEATRE.html   (743 words)

Dance Magazine: American Ballet Theatre - Review The ballet concerns the plight of the woman who believed herself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the only surviving offspring of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II, and consists mostly of melodramatic flashbacks. Much of the ballet's magic lies in Desmond Heeley's sets and costumes: his sparkling icescape with its bluish undertones; the wedding scene with its distant, dreamlike onion domes; and the penetrating brilliance of the costume colors. As the creature of ice and snow who falls in love with a mortal, she lifted the ballet's theme to the level of parable, while Bocca set her off with his sturdy simplicity. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_9_73/ai_55739064   (1156 words)

American Ballet Theatre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: ) It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. It became the American Ballet Theatre in 1956. Mikhail Baryshnikov was artistic director of the company from 1980 to 1989 and was followed in that position by Jane Hermann (1989–92) and Kevin McKenzie (1992–). www.bartleby.com /65/am/AmerBT.html   (307 words)

New Statesman - Ballet meets Broadway When the American Ballet Theatre troupe came to Sadler's Wells last month, it was an event - the first time that the national dance company of the United States had visited London for more than 17 years. It was with an act from this latter ballet, choreo graphed by Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa, that ABT opened its second evening in town. One of the greatest (and trippiest) moments in ballet occurs when, at the start of the scene, the corps emerge one by one from a ramp at the back of the stage, painstakingly slowly and elegantly, stepping and arching into arabesques. www.newstatesman.com /dance/2007/03/sadler-wells-ballet-theatre   (933 words)

ABT's Rewards This Season Were in the Past - WSJ.com Ballet schooling's keen geometrics and athletic energies underpin the dancers' activity, presenting them as individual personalities, most pointedly when they are joined in variously enraptured duets. Millepied's overall structuring of his ballet, starting with his notable, initial image, reveals a certain originality, as do his transitions from group to duet and back again, but the meat of his choreographic excursions amounts to dross as theater. The raised standards that were set on ice during the same decade that gave ballet the 1970s works that ABT recently brought back to glory have yet to be consistently met or respected. online.wsj.com /article/SB119491610355990696.html?mod=googlenews_wsj   (1018 words)

AllRefer.com - American Ballet Theatre (Dance) - Encyclopedia American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. In 1960 it was the first U.S. ballet company to dance in the Soviet Union. Dancers who gained fame or reached their peak with the American Ballet Theatre include Alicia Alonso, Alicia Markova, Erik Bruhn, Nora Kaye, and Natalia Makarova. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AmerBT.html   (375 words)

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE Young Audiences of Connecticut American Ballet Theatre, America's National Ballet Company is committed to bringing the highest quality of dance to the largest possible audience through performances, education and outreach initiatives. American Ballet Theatre is offering Connecticut schools the opportunity to hold a week-long residency with an ABT teaching artist. The story ballets are shown and shared by class with another visiting class, in a double period so that sharing and reflection are built in to the residency. www.yaconn.org /artists/D-american-ballet.html   (1087 words)

America's 'can-do' company - Telegraph "Ballet Theatre" was founded in 1940 (the "American" was added in 1956), with the intention of building a grand library of classics while also promoting fresh, home-grown work. Today, although ABT's repertory is anything but static (a new Sleeping Beauty by McKenzie, himself a former principal, opens in New York in June, and there are two further premières slated for later in the year), in terms of rep it's perhaps still regarded first and foremost as a heritage company. While ABT continues to have "names" in glorious abundance (others to look out for in London include Ángel Corella, Julie Kent and Jose Manuel Carreño), what it has traditionally lacked is a signature style of dancing. www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/02/12/btballet12.xml   (1126 words)

NYC ARTS - Organization Details ABT performs two regular seasons in New York City: in the fall at City Center and in the spring at the Metropolitan Opera House. From 1980 to 1990 ABT was under the artistic direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. ABT's commitment to teaching and presenting classical ballet is embodied in its respected Studio Company and Summer Intensive programs for training talented dancers. www.nyc-arts.org /oDetail.aspx?OrgID=1442   (283 words)

University Concert Series - American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre is recognized as one of the great dance companies in the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope and outreach. ABT's Studio Company prepares young dancers to enter American Ballet Theatre, provides opportunities for the emergence of new, cutting edge choreographers and composers, and brings the excitement of close contact with a professional company to communities across the country through public performances and educational outreach programs. www.concertseries.org /ballet.html   (140 words)

American Ballet Theatre - Artemis Musicians on bouzoukis, bass, keyboard, percussion, wind, guitars, violin, and accordion, remained onstage for most of the evening, other than the ballet, on moving sets, in a very interesting collaboration with the orchestra of American Ballet Theatre, who continually played from the pit. For me, the high point of the evening, was, of course, the World Premiere of the ballet, Artemis, Choreography by Lar Lubovitch, Music by Chris Theofanidis, Scenery by John Arnone, Costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, Lighting by Brian MacDevitt, Performed by Julie Kent, Marcelo Gomes, and the Company, and Conducted by David LaMarche. This ephemeral and exquisite ballet was brilliantly performed by Julie Kent, whose elongation and personified grace is unparalleled, and Marcelo Gomes, who literally became a deer before our eyes. www.robertaonthearts.com /id22.html   (771 words)

Dance Magazine: American Ballet Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: ) This gives ABT a chance to show some of its own indigenous ballets that have been created or nurtured over the past half century or so, and an opportunity to introduce brand-new works together with interesting company premieres. Since Kevin McKenzie's shrewd curatorship of ABT as the fifth artistic director in its history, few could dispute that the accent has been more on the dancer than the dance--and currently the company boasts the best troupe of male dancers in the world. ABT has a long past with a huge ballet warehouse--and this season a number of works were pulled out for examination. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_2_78/ai_112905932   (928 words)

American Ballet Theatre The former, created for ABT in 1944, is better done these days at New York City Ballet, where the men seem not so afraid to let their danseur bearing slip a little. Any performance of a Tudor ballet is a special sort of test for ABT, so closely was he associated with the company in its early years, and so far has the company come from what it was in those days. The ballet is one romantic episode after another -- some in the foreground, some around a table in the back, all involving champagne and garters -- but the fun only really begins with the entrance of the Operetta Star, danced in the performance I saw by a very game Nina Ananiashvili. www.danceinsider.com /f2002/f1106_1.html   (1975 words)

Performance: American Ballet Theatre: Mixed Repertory and Othello Jan 9 - 14, 2007 American Ballet Theatre at the Kennedy Center is supported through the generosity of The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund. Open Rehearsal: American Ballet Theatre Jan 9, 2007 at 1:15 PM Join ballet scholars for a behind-the-scenes view of American Ballet Theatre company members as they prepare onstage for a performance. This triple bill of ballets, with an additional glittering pus de deux is a delightful introduction to the range and excitement of American Ballet Theatre's repertory. kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=BHBSE   (627 words)

American Ballet Theatre Tickets- American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre tickets are available in Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, New York, Boston, Chicago, American Ballet Theatre Birmingham, Atlanta tickets, Los Angeles, San Fransico, Dixie Chicks Dallas, Austin. American Ballet Theatre is one of the most exciting thing to do in American Ballet Theatre. American Ballet Theatre are available in the American Ballet Theatre, Phillips Arena, Sanford Stadium, Chastain, and Atlanta. www.southerntickets.net /American_Ballet_Theatre.html   (314 words)

American Ballet Theatre -- Newsday.com Ballet companies worldwide are offering programs in honor of George Balanchine's centenary, and there is no reason why American Ballet Theatre should not join the party - even if it does perform just across the Lincoln Center plaza from Balanchine's home team, the New York City Ballet. ABT has a solid history of performing his works, particularly since Mikhail Baryshnikov's tenure as artistic director during the 1980s, and Balanchine created one of his most scintillating masterpieces for the company. The ABT production is grand in scale and elaborate in design; the women look somewhat weighed down in their tutus layered with brocade and glitter. www.newsday.com /entertainment/news/ny-etball3819197may27,0,5591431.story?coll=ny-nyc-entertainment-headlines   (562 words)

CriticalDance :: View topic - American Ballet Theatre - City Center 2005 ABT’s 2005 City Center season is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Dark Elegies, a ballet portraying members of a community mourning the loss of their children, is set to music by Gustav Mahler with scenery and costumes by Nadia Benois and lighting by Jean Rosenthal. ABT’s 2005 New York City Center season is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. www.ballet-dance.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=23931   (4161 words)

PlaybillArts: Features: American Ballet Theatre: Etudes of the Classroom Ballet Etudes followed her to the London Festival Ballet, where she danced during the 1950s, and then to New York and what was then called Ballet Theatre. It was among the relatively few ballets in tutus and classical regalia that ABT performed on tour at the time, and the ballet "really, really kept you in shape," Jones remembers, "so that by the time you got back to New York the company wasn't in a shambles." ABT continued to favor Etudes all though the 1970s; an excerpt turns up in The Turning Point, filmed in 1976 and featuring much of ABT's repertory and stars at that time. www.playbillarts.com /features/article/7658.html   (1218 words)

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