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	George Balanchine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Giorgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, his father was the famous Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze (1862-1937), a public benefactor and one of the founders of the Georgian Opera.
		Young George Balanchine took to dancing readily, and was enrolled in ballet classes at the age of 9 at the Imperial Ballet, where he studied under Pavel Gerdt and Samuil Andrianov (Pavel's son-in-law).
		Balanchine began to stage dances for the Cochran Revues in London, was retained by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen a guest ballet master.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Balanchine (1276 words)

	Term Paper on George Balanchine
		George Balanchine, or originally Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, a Russian-born choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet.
		George was among a generation of dancers who spent the years of World War 1 at the Imperial school of ballet at the Mariinsky theatre.
		George was the son of a composer, and he also studied music from 1921 to 1924 at the Petrograd Conservatory in St. Petersburg.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/George_Balanchine-22152.html (183 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 (3172 words)

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		Americans have no doubt that George Balanchine (also known as Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze, born in St. Petersburg, in 1924 moving to Europe and then to the United States) is the greatest ballet master of the 20th century and maybe even of all time.
		(Balanchine acquired the habit when, at a young age, he was operated on for tuberculosis and had one lung removed.) Balanchines comments on his pupils performance were always precise, to the point, and never gushy.
		George was too busy for that: After all, he had to take care of two large organiza-tions ã a ballet theater and a ballet school.
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	History Channel Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The son of a composer, Balanchine was born on Jan. 22, 1904, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
		When that company dissolved in 1938, Balanchine created works for various opera and ballet companies and for musical comedies; his work for The Boys from Syracuse (1938) and the famous ballet sequence “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” in On Your Toes (1936) established ballet as a permanent element of the musical.
		Balanchine is considered the foremost representative of neoclassicism in ballet.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=202075 (443 words)

	Remembering Balanchine \| Arts and Entertainment \| BBC World Service
		Characterised by his single-minded approach, George Balanchine adored the ballerina and marvelled at the visual spectacle that is dance.
		Although Balanchine continually refined the ballet throughout his life, it was the choreographer’s reliance on the simplicity of bodies moving in space that impressed audiences and his ability to strip away the artifice of dance went on to become his trademark style.
		Balanchine invented ‘the uniform’ – the way of dressing dancers in plain tights that was at first taken to be necessitated by poverty but is now accepted everywhere as a way of showing the dance.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/arts/highlights/000823_balanchine.shtml (1144 words)

	Dancing Online, George Balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The son of a composer, Balanchine was born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
		Under Balanchine's direction, the company became one of the world's great performing groups, with a repertory consisting largely of his ballets.
		Balanchine's style ranged from classical stagings to choreography for more contemporary and modern composers, including the works of Americans George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers.
	www.ccs.neu.edu /home/yiannis/dance/balanchine.html (431 words)

	Balanchine at 100
		Balanchine's "texts" are, of course, liquid, elusive and subject to the inevitable evolutionary process, performers' idiosyncrasies and the fallibility of human memory.
		Balanchine's three stateside companies -- the short-lived American Ballet and Ballet Society preceded the founding and stabilization of New York City Ballet in 1948 -- spawned three generations of dancers, many of whom became ballet directors (Christensen, Balanchine's first American Apollo, heads the list.) Most of them have incorporated Balanchine's aesthetic into their own.
		Balanchine's original conceit -- to juxtapose American folk dance patterns with 18th century scores by Corelli and Vivaldi - - was a charmer, as well as a theatrical device aimed at attracting attention in the audience-building era of the 1950s.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/01/PKGUC4FRL31.DTL&type=performance (1713 words)

	A nose for nuance.(Balanchine Lives)(GEORGE BALLANCHINE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION )(Biography) - Dance Magazine - HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It was Balanchine, and to a lesser extent an Englishman, Frederick Ashton (who was born in the same year as Balanchine), who demanded that classical dance be regarded as paramount, and in their various ways initiated the triumphant neoclassical counterrevolution to the Fokinean dance drama.
		Balanchine knew that a company that could dance Serenade or Symphony in C would always have to maintain a level of classical expertise and style.
		And when the nature of Balanchine is reduced to the heart of the onion (who was he, after that who was he, and after that who was he?) ballet master seems the most apt, most universal description.
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	George Balanchine
		Balanchine (Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze) was born in St. Petersburg (Jan 22, 1904) into a very musical family and began studying the piano at age 5.
		Balanchine was raised on the dance traditions of the classical Russian ballet established by Petipa.
		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 compositions.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/Balanchine.html (3026 words)

	Russia: Balanchine -- The Choreographer Who Shaped The Future Of American Ballet - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Balanchine, who collaborated with Stravinsky on a number of projects, repeatedly noted the importance of music in his work, as in this television appearance in 1972.
		The son of a composer, Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg and trained at the city's Imperial Ballet Academy, the starting ground for many dancers from the country's legendary Kirov Ballet.
		She says Balanchine's effortless blend of music and rhythm was one of the most distinctive characteristics of his choreography.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/03/c2e23bb4-f4cd-47d2-8939-ef0f8030616e.html (916 words)

	New York Choreographic Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Balanchine choreographs ballets for the Opera de Monte-Carlo and the Ballets Russes.
		Balanchine continues to choreograph for a number of companies in Paris, London, Copenhagen, and Monte Carlo, including the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo and Les Ballets 1933, a troupe he formed with Boris Kochno that presented his choreography exclusively.
		Balanchine is hired as ballet master of the Metropolitan Opera, and the American Ballet (to be called American Ballet Ensemble) becomes its resident ballet company.
	www.nycballet.com /nyci/nyci_forums_balanchine-3.html (1133 words)

	George Balanchine
		The son of a composer, 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 dynamic, inventive modern style of classical American ballet, while freeing ballet from the symmetrical and ornamental forms that had dominated since the 19th cent.
		George Balanchine - George Balanchine (Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze) choreographer, dancer Born: 1/22/1904...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0805852.html (332 words)

	Toni Bentley in The New York Times
		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 9and his despair.
		But to present the Balanchine Kirstein collaboration 9one of the most significant artistic pairings of the last century 9as a sane guycrazy guy story is both ill-informed and superficial 9even for a "brief" life.
		Balanchine was the man whose work was, at its deepest level, about time itself 9the measurement of time, the passage of time, the music that is time, the loss inherent in time.
	www.tonibentley.com /pages/journalism_pages/balanchine.html (3088 words)

	Mr. B \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Two new short biographies of George Balanchine – one by critic Terry Teachout, the other by former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb – chronicle the hardships and heartbreak that lay between the birth of Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in 1904 and the apotheosis of New York City Ballet's legendary Mr.
		In those lonely years, Balanchine found solace in studying music, and often would spend the long Sundays practicing on the piano when other boys were visiting their parents.
		Balanchine famously said "everything a man does, he does for his ideal woman," but when the ballerinas Balanchine wooed in his choreography became wives or lovers – he married three more times – his interest inevitably waned.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041128/news_lz1v28mrb.html (1029 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on George Balanchine.
		Balanchine: A Ballet Master There are many great talents in the world of dance.
		Balanchine was a man who overcame many odds to become greater than his predecessors.
		Born Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in 1904, Balanchine was part of a musical family (Aloff).
	www.essayboom.com /essay/George_Balanchine-143189.html (135 words)

	George Balanchine
		Russian-American choreographer, one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet, particularly in the neoclassical style.
		The son of a composer, he was born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze on January 22, 1904, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
		Although ballets such as The Nutcracker (1954; revised 1964) and the powerful Don Quixote (1965) have a story line, Balanchine is best known for his plotless ballets, such as The Four Temperaments (1946) and Jewels (1967), which explore dance for the sake of pattern and the movement of the human body.
	www.worldwidedanceuk.com /content.asp?CategoryID=751 (333 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Editorials / Ballet's torch
		Born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904, he was the son of a composer and studied piano and dance as a child.
		Now the Massachusetts Youth Ballet is granted licenses from the George Balanchine Trust authorizing the performance of the choreographer's copyrighted work.
		Balanchine was invited to America by Boston-born arts patron Lincoln Kirstein, who wanted to start an American ballet company as well as a school that could match its European peers.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/01/11/ballets_torch (528 words)

	OC Metro
		But it was as choreographer that George Balanchine made his greatest mark on dance history in America.
		"George Balanchine was, if not the biggest, certainly one of the biggest figures in 20th-century dance," says Sean Lavery, who danced with the New York City Ballet under Balanchine and others from 1977 to 1987, all but the first year as principal dancer, and since 1990 has served as its ballet master.
		Giorgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze was born Jan. 22, 1904, in St. Petersburg, the son of pioneer Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze (1862-1937) and older brother of composer Andrey (born in 1906).
	www.ocmetro.com /archives/ocmetro_2004/metro091604/onstage091604.html (1319 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		George Balanchine was very strong in what he felt about neoclassism of Stravansky's music.
		Balanchine advised the young Nureyev, 'My ballets are very bare and in natural virtuosity; Go, get rid of your romantic and princes image.
		George Balanchine was born as Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg on 22nd January 1904 and died on tenth April 1983.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/10/30/fea05.html (2389 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - the hermitage honors balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The U.S. choreographer George Balanchine, who was born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg in 1904 and whose centenary is being marked by a newly opened exhibition in the Hermitage Theater, was one of the 20th century's leading creative forces with a worldwide impact on dance.
		In the section called "Balanchine's St. Petersburg" the organizers have exhibited paintings of poet Anna Akhmatova, composer Alexander Glazunov and other leading figures of the age with whom Balanchine is associated, as well as costume designs, theater posters and announcements about his first works performed in St. Petersburg.
		The importance of St. Petersburg in Balanchine's formation was underlined by Lourdes Lopez, the executive director of the George Balanchine Foundation in New York.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=662 (780 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: George Balanchine: The Roots of the Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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 (1258 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - People: George Balanchine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The son of a composer, Balanchine was born Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia.
		At the invitation of American ballet patron Lincoln Kirstein, Balanchine moved to New York City and together they founded the School of American Ballet in 1934 and the American Ballet Company in 1935.
		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)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	Iberiana_Balanchivadze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1913 George Balanchivadze enrolls in the Imperial Theater Ballet School in St. Petersburg.
		Balanchine choreographs ballets for a number of companies in Paris, London, Copenhagen, and Monte Carlo, including the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo.
		Balanchine arrives in New York on October 17.
	iberiana.iatp.ge /geosur/balanchivadze.htm (254 words)

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