George balanchine

"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate." The most lyrical American ballerina of her generation was a young student from Cincinnati when, at age 15, she first auditioned for the legendary choreographer George Balanchine. She danced a section of Glazunov's The Seasons, humming her own accompaniment, and the perfectionist was charmed. Her talent shone from the moment she joined the New York City Ballet, where…

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Joan Acocella on “Balanchine Teaching,” which shows the choreographer George Balanchine at work at the School of American Ballet.

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George Balanchine and Suzanne Farrell

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Martha Swope spent her career photographing the ballet company, often intimately capturing its most famous dancers in the studio.

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Maria Tallchief, one of the 20th century's greatest ballerinas and a force in the history of Chicago dance, has died at age 88.