by Amy Brandt | Jan 8, 2018 | News, Profiles
“My whole mission in life is to keep Balanchine’s work alive,” says former New York City Ballet dancer Karin von Aroldingen in Frances Mason’s I Remember Balanchine, a collection of interviews by George Balanchine’s friends and...
by Julia Guiheen | Jan 3, 2018 | Profiles, Viral Videos
“The Bell Telephone Hour” TV program broadcasted performances of world-class music, opera and ballet to millions of Americans throughout the 1960s. Many of the dance world’s biggest stars frequently appeared on the program. In a 1961 Shakespeare...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been known for her long-limbed dancing and versatile grace, but it turns out that her renown didn’t end there. In 1967 the former New York City Ballet star published The Ballet Cook Book, a mix of ballet history, food...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 11, 2017 | Career, Profiles
This year marks the 50th anniversary of George Balanchine’s Jewels, and companies around the world are paying homage. While last summer’s Lincoln Center Festival collaboration with New York City Ballet, Paris Opéra Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet was all...
by Marina Harss | Jul 16, 2017 | Career
“The whole thing was—I like jewels,” the choreographer George Balanchine told an interviewer in the spring of 1967, when asked about his newest creation for New York City Ballet, a triptych called—what else?—Jewels. He had his photograph...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Summer is here! Whether you’re hanging out under a beach umbrella or passing the time between rehearsals, it’ll be more fun with a book in hand. Check out these ballet page-turners—all written by dancers themselves. Bunheads By Sophie Flack...