How To Use Balanchine In A Sentence
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Balanchine thought ballets were like butterflies that could not be kept from one generation to the next.
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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.
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Balanchine used them all and routinely transformed the ballet battement into an acrobatic kick, allowing the hip to be lifted - another ballet ‘no-no.’
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Balanchine's works were pared down; the excess was gone.
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This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine.
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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.
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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
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Although ballet took on a new look with the abstract terpsichoreans of Balanchine, this 1984 piece for me was the onset of contemporary ballet.
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For example: is the subject taken from classical literature with its firm structural rules like those which govern Balanchine's Apollo?
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Tomasson mentioned that Balanchine had created the work in an hour and twenty minutes, asking Tomasson to show it to him.
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From somewhere beyond the majestic ceiling's painted clouds, Balanchine must have beamed approval.
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Arlen and Mercer penned a drawerful of gems for a World War II cinematic revue called Star-Spangled Rhythm — the only one to achieve standard status was "That Old Black Magic" (choreographed for the film by George Balanchine; Hollywood used to be a classy place), but some more military-themed songs are priceless, including the brilliant "I'm Doing It For Defense" and the deliciously-titled "He Loved Me Till the All Clear Came.
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Sonatine," Balanchine's alternately grounded and playfully darting duet to Maurice Ravel's piano music, got a confident and charming performance from coltish Courtney Anderson and an ardent Momchil Mladenov.
A Company in Progress
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Mr. Balanchine was at all times a cavalier, a real gentleman.
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Ballet Imperial, a plotless work set to Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto, is Balanchine's homage to the tsarist Mariinsky heritage.
Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill – review
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If ever Balanchine had re-choreographed the full four-act "Swan Lake," I'd like to imagine he'd have made the scene for the antiheroine Odile like this: voluptuous, intoxicating, with the ballerina leading a female throng whose energies all grow increasingly wild around the bewildered but overwhelmed hero.
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As a principal with Ballet Arizona, she arches her sinuous back and undulates her arms with poetic delicacy in Bournonville's La Sylphide, and struts with sexy sultriness in Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
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For example: is the subject taken from classical literature with its firm structural rules like those which govern Balanchine's Apollo?
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As a student at the School of American Ballet, she appeared for several years in the second act of the New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's Nutcracker.
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The company debuted Oct.12 with Balanchine's Theme and Variations, August Bournonville's Napoli and Dennis Nahat's Moments.
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He never damn well is, Donaldson thought, and asked what was to be done about Mrs Balanchine.
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What would his ballets and choreographic vocabulary look like if his production budget had been as stringent as Balanchine's during the Forties and Fifties?
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Later, Robbins adopted the plotless style of Balanchine, his mentor and idol, firmly denying that his new works were “about” anything but movement and music.
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Her assignments included illustrating George Balanchine's book Complete Stories of the Great Ballets.
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Mr. McGregor takes several of those vexed Balanchine features - the flexed feet, the hyperextension of individual limbs, and the overcrossing of two or more limbs - and takes them, as Mr. Forsythe did in the 1980s, further.
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The final allegro, made so memorable in Balanchine's ballet of the same name, crackles with wit.
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Each winter, the New York City Ballet inspires prima ballerinas of all ages with its staging of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker ™, the story of a little girl's flight through toy soldiers, cunning mice, a gifted Nutcracker, and sugarplum fairies. www. nycballet.com/nutcracker/nutcracker. html
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By her second year she was dancing soloist roles in the Balanchine repertory.
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Showcasing its roster of brilliant ballerinas, the Kirov offers sparkling versions of Petipa and Balanchine.
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After years of backsliding, the New York City Ballet has recaptured the precision that its signature Balanchine repertory demands.
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Mr. Andersen is a Balanchine regisseur-stager of rare acuity, and he has made his company one of the most musically intelligent in the world.
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For an unfathomable reason, I kept thinking of Balanchine's Agon as the dancers swept through their athletic ceremonial.
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Balanchine famously declared that "ballet is a woman," but the aphorism was far truer in Degas's day, when the ballet was an almost exclusively feminine preserve of layered tarlatan skirts, pink satin slippers and ribbons.
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Farrell's golden reputation as a coach of the Balanchine ballets has attracted much attention.
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Balanchine choreographed many pieces to Stravinsky's music
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One would have also wished for live music in Oakland's only tutu ballet of the season, Balanchine's Pas de Trois (staged by Marina Eglevsky).
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The piece abounds in quotations from Balanchine's leotard ballets, as the master's abstract works are called because of their stark costuming.
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The clerk of the court was standing by the doorway and calling for Mrs Balanchine.
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And so we unite in common awe as we listen to a Bach Prelude for cello, or watch a ballet by Balanchine, or listen to a poem by Wang Wei.
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She was much applauded for her boldness in tackling the unfamiliar Balanchine style.
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The clerk of the court was standing by the doorway and calling for Mrs Balanchine.
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And unlike Graham, who named Protas as her sole heir, Balanchine willed his ballets to a number of heirs, including some of the ballerinas who created the roles in those ballets.
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Some highlights of the past week: Rocio Molina, new kind of flamenco diva, and NYCB's glorious return to Balanchine
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Next to the sell-out performances of the Kirov, Mr. Balanchine's protégée and her ensemble rated near capacity and a very warm, appreciative audience.
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What Joffrey observers often admire most now is the beauty and fineness of the women's pointe work, so essential for dancing Balanchine.
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Responsibility for the dance numbers was split between Robert Alton and the young George Balanchine.
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Responsibility for the dance numbers was split between Robert Alton and the young George Balanchine.
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Mrs Balanchine was sitting on a hard chair outside the number two courtroom.
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Similar remarks could be made about the abstract ballets by Balanchine, MacMillan and others.
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For example: is the subject taken from classical literature with its firm structural rules like those which govern Balanchine's Apollo?
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The soloists, too, delivered a fetching geometry onstage, delightful to Balanchine aficionados anytime.
