Balanchine

How To Use Balanchine In A Sentence

• Balanchine thought ballets were like butterflies that could not be kept from one generation to the next.
• Though she rose slowly through the company ranks (appointed soloist in 1967 and principal in 1972), her brilliant allegro technique made her a natural Balanchine dancer.
• Balanchine used them all and routinely transformed the ballet battement into an acrobatic kick, allowing the hip to be lifted - another ballet ‘no-no.’
• Balanchine's works were pared down; the excess was gone.
• This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine.
• In the adagio solo at the center of George Balanchine's Square Dance, Peter Boal exudes a beautiful meditative melancholy from each perfectly articulated phrase.
• As for Kirstein, d'Amboise is fascinating on the relationship between George and Lincoln self-confidence versus self-questioning, and he sheds new light on the succession of leadership at NYCB after Balanchine's death. An American Apollo
• Although ballet took on a new look with the abstract terpsichoreans of Balanchine, this 1984 piece for me was the onset of contemporary ballet.
• For example: is the subject taken from classical literature with its firm structural rules like those which govern Balanchine's Apollo?
• Tomasson mentioned that Balanchine had created the work in an hour and twenty minutes, asking Tomasson to show it to him.