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	George Balanchine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Balanchine (January 9 (O.S. January 22 (N.S. –April 30, 1983) was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, and one of the founders of American ballet.
		In 1924, he was in a small troupe of ballet dancers that left the Soviet Union for a tour in Western Europe.
		Balanchine insisted that first there be a school, and founded the School of American Ballet.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/George_Balanchine (378 words)

	George Balanchine (1904-1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Balanchine was one of the greatest and most prolific choreographers in ballet history, choreographing at least 300 ballets; he was rivaled in quantity only by Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa.
		George Balanchine was luckier than many of his colleagues after Diaghilev's death: because of his past successes he found work as a choreographer in London, Copenhagen, Paris and also for a new company in Monte Carlo under the sponsorship of the Monaco Royal House.
		Balanchine's funeral was held in a Russian Orthodox Church and that night the New York City Ballet performed as scheduled.
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	George Balanchine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Balanchine (January 9 (O.S. January 22 (N.S. April 30, 1983) was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, and one of the founders of American ballet.
		In 1921-1924 Balanchine was an artist with the Petrograd Theater of Opera and Ballet.
		In London, England, he was seen by Serge Diaghilev and was asked to join the Ballets Russes, initially as a dancer, but later as principal choreographer.
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	SAB Biography: George Balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Balanchine's style has been described as neoclassic, a reaction to the Romantic anti-classicism, (which had turned into exaggerated theatricality) that was the prevailing style in Russian and European ballet when he had begun to dance.
		Balanchine chose to shape talent locally, and he has said that the basic structure of the American dancer was responsible for inspiring some of the striking lines of his composition.
		Balanchine always preferred to call himself a craftsmen rather than a creator, comparing himself to a cook or a cabinetmaker (both hobbies of his) and had a reputation throughout the dance world for the calm and collected way in which he worked with his dancers and colleagues.
	www.sab.org /bio/biobalanchine.htm (2668 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for George Balanchine
		Balanchine's first ballet in the United States was performed as a workshop by students of the school.
		Balanchine defended his technique of de emphasizing the plot in his ballets by saying, "A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle, not the story, is the essential element.
		Balanchine died in 1983 at the age of 79.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3510&source_type=A (712 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: George Balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The son of a composer, Balanchine was born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia.
		Balanchine is considered the foremost representative of neoclassicism in ballet.
		But Balanchine is best known for his plotless ballets, such as The Four Temperaments (1946), long regarded as his masterwork, and Jewels (1967), both of which explore pattern and the movement of the human body to music.
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/people/balanchine.htm (466 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'All in the Dances' and 'George ...
		Balanchine also danced, started to choreograph, made the first of his four (or five, if you count one that was never formalized) marriages, left Russia with his wife and two other dancers and, after struggles and privations galore, became Diaghilev's ballet master in Monaco.
		Balanchine's experience of genuine crisis combined with his religious faith to make him a man who was as calm, controlled and courteous to his dancers as the man who was to become his principal associate, Jerome Robbins, was frantic and bullying.
		Balanchine snubbed her and withheld roles from her husband, leading them to resign -- and it wasn't until several years later that he managed to apologize and readmit his most brilliant ballerina to a company that was missing her.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/11/28/books/review/28NIGHTIN.html?ei=5088&en=821f8c1a6b08b334&ex=1259470800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&adxnnlx=1111525175-O25fgBZTyjqCrOAjm3t0sA (805 words)

	About George Balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, George Balanchine (1904–1983) is regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet.
		At Balanchine's behest, Kirstein was also prepared to support the formation of an American academy of ballet that would eventually rival the long-established schools of Europe.
		Balanchine served as its ballet master and principal choreographer from 1948 until his death in 1983.
	www.pnb.org /season/bc-about.html (341 words)

	II Web: Press Release \| George Balanchine
		Balanchine has been compared to Shakespeare in the depth and scope of his work and ranks with Picasso and Stravinsky as a titan of 20th-century arts.
		Balanchine's innovations were built on his St. Petersburg experience, and he drew inspiration from Russian culture all of his life.
		Balanchine, as well as the art form of dance in general, has been neglected within the world of academe, creating a significant lacuna in our accounts of the history of arts in the 20th century.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/iisite/press/pr_balanchine.html (1523 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Master
		George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker is by Robert Gottlieb, former editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker, currently dance critic for The New York Observer, former board member of the New York City Ballet, and audience member of Balanchine's enterprise since its inception in 1948.
		For Balanchine, love, eroticism, and a vision of the divine were inextricably interwoven, and while he delighted in portraying both the Madonna and the Whore in his ballerinas, it was the woman dressed in white with flowing tresses that brought him deepest into his destiny—and his despair.
		Balanchine taught his audience and his dancers how to bear loss with grace, and the serene sadness evident in Kistler's enigmatic face is the visage of a woman whose loss indeed has been great.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/17774 (3178 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - George Ballanchine - Main Page
		George was the son of famous Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze.
		George was also a musician as well as a Chorographer, Producer and Director.
		Balanchine was heavily influenced by Marius Petipa with most of his choreography being abstract.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2balch1.htm (145 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: George Balanchine and the Music of Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Balanchine's most famous collaborator, Igor Stravinsky, suggested that the choreographer's inventions added a new layer of understanding to his music of which even he was previously unaware.
		Balanchine believed that the commissioning of new music was an extremely important part of the continual creative processes enjoyed by the hungry and remarkably broad-minded New York City Ballet audience.
		Balanchine was a master when it came to fulfilling requirements for an event even when the circumstances were not ideal.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/117.html (1244 words)

	George Balanchine
		The George Balanchine Foundation has set about filling in some gaps in George Balanchine's repertory, reconstructing segments based on historical film clips of dances no longer performed.
		He recalled his partner in the work, Alexandra Danilova, who, great as she was, found some of the experimental steps tricky to understand, such as a lift sequence in which the woman stabs her cross leg into arabesque.
		But Balanchine was so prolific that it is impossible to keep everything in rep, and his recycling of these particular musical compositions surely helped keep the older versions on the shelf.
	www.danceinsider.com /f2003/f1121_2.html (773 words)

	George Balanchine
		The son of a composer, Balanchine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, and performed in Russia.
		Balancing balanchine: a pas de deux with Robert Gottlieb, whose pocket-sized new biography on ballet master George Balanchine furthers the conversation on this 20th-century giant.(Book Talk)(Interview) (Interview)
		George Balanchine's `Jewels' is unmatched as a primer on 20th-century ballet.(ENTERTAINMENT) (Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN))
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0805852.html (405 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -BALANCHINE, GEORGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With a permanent company at his disposal, Balanchine now embarked on the adventure that secured his position as the foremost choreographer of twentieth-century ballet.
		The Balanchine style that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s rested firmly on classical technique, even as it wed this technique to distinctly modernist concerns.
		Although Balanchine choreographed a number of story ballets (his 1954 Nutcracker started the rage for this Christmas entertainment), his greatest works dispensed with narrative and scenery.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_007000_balanchinege.htm (470 words)

	Balanchine, George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1946 the two men founded the company that would become the New York City Ballet, and in 1948 Balanchine was named its artistic director and principal choreographer.
		As the major figure in mid-20th-century ballet, Balanchine established both a new Russian-American dance culture and the dynamic, inventive modern style of classical American ballet, while freeing ballet from the symmetrical and ornamental forms that had dominated since the 19th cent.
		In 1987, after his death, two former associates founded the Balanchine Trust, an organization that maintains the integrity of his ballets by overseeing their leasing and staging.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/Balanchi.html (369 words)

	George Balanchine
		George Balanchine was invited to come to the United States by Lincoln Kirstein.
		The school was responsible for the first ballet Balanchine made in America; he choreographed Serenade for his students.
		Balanchine was to abandon many ballets over the ensuing years, but he never let Serenade drop.
	www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr /%7Eesouche/dance/Balan.html (690 words)

	AllRefer.com - George Balanchine (Dance, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		George Balanchine[bal´unshEn´´] Pronunciation Key, 1904–83, American choreographer and ballet dancer, b.
		Balanchine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, and performed in Russia.
		As the major figure in mid-20th-century ballet, Balanchine established both a new Russian-American dance culture and the modern style of classical American ballet : through dances he choreographed and dancers he trained : and freed ballet from the symmetrical form that had dominated since the 19th cent.
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	Did "Rejuvenation" Therapy Kill George Balanchine? - Center for Media and Democracy
		horeographer George Balanchine is probably the most famous person in the United States who has died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (also known as Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease), the human equivalent of mad cow disease.
		In a retrospective written after Balanchine's death in 1983, one of his physicians speculates that he may have gotten the disease as a result of exposure to animal glands during "rejuvenation" treatments in Switzerland.
		Balanchine obviously had some kind of neurological disease, but a specific diagnosis could not be reached," recalls Robert D. Wickham, MD, senior attending urologist at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, in the book, I Remember Balanchine by Francis Mason.
	www.prwatch.org /prwissues/1997Q3/balanchin.html (330 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: All in the Dances : A Brief Life of George Balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When a journalist asked Balanchine about his life, he replied, "It's all in the programs." But there was more to it, for his choreography is inexorably bound with the ballerinas he loved.
		Balanchine's ballets are modern masterpieces, and Teachout, moving chronologically from work to work, uses them as stepping stones to tell Balanchine's own story.
		Teachout emphasizes Balanchine's profound musical knowledge and utter lack of pretension and the radicalness of his "plotless" ballets, with their "daredevil energy" and spare costumes and stage settings (works best described as "sound made visible").
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151010889?v=glance (1189 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: George Balanchine: The Roots of the Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On October 18, 1933, George Balanchine disembarked in New York from the tourist class of the S.S. Olympic.
		Balanchine, of Georgian rather than Russian descent, was born Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg on January 22, 1904.
		Balanchine soon found temporary work with the Paris Opera Ballet, but a severe illness--he suffered from tuberculosis--and the deft machinations of another Diaghilev refugee, the formidable Serge Lifar, prevented him from assuming the promised directorship of the company.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/5.html (1216 words)

	Miami's brilliant Balanchine turn - The Washington Times: Entertainment - April 27, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		George Balanchine's dances and spirit are probably as alive and well in Miami as in any other place on the planet.
		Under the direction of Edward Villella, whose own dancing of Balanchine was unsurpassed in its day, the company displayed both a finely honed technique and a keen understanding of the spirit and atmosphere of each work.
		Balanchine's neoclassic ballets; the wonder is that it so beautifully captured the romantic, airborne atmosphere of "Ballo" with its expansive Verdi score.
	www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20040426-091430-5569r.htm (519 words)

	American Masters . George Balanchine \| PBS
		Balanchine’s first ballet in this country was "Serenade," set to music by Tchaikovsky, which was premiered outdoors on the estate of a friend near White Plains, New York, as a workshop performance by students of the school.
		With a company initially strapped for cash, Balanchine eschewed elaborate costumes and sets and presented his dancers in practice clothes, an innovation he continued to use for selected ballets long after money was no longer an issue.
		For those, however, who realized that Balanchine had dreamed of creating for America what the Maryinsky had been for Russia, the development was perfectly logical, and ballets such as "Don Quixote," "Union Jack," "Jewels," and "Vienna Waltzes" soon followed.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/balanchine_g.html (508 words)

	Dance Council: Publication: Commemorating the Legendary George Balanchine
		Balanchine’s fervent interest in his adopted Western Culture was made strikingly evident in his choreography, such as Western Symphony (1954) and Square Dance (1958).
		Balanchine originally created Concerto Barocco as an exercise of the students at the School of American Ballet, and it was one of the three ballets presented at New York City Ballet’s inaugural performance.
		According to Dr. Berg, “In terms of today’s ballet repertory, Balanchine ballets are the touchstones for the dancer.
	thedancecouncil.org /html/publication/FebApr2004/georgebalanchine.html (896 words)

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