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“Thank you, dear Lucia”: American Ballet Theatre celebrates 75 years

January 12, 2015 – 10:50 am

Two years before the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor in December 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt began to

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alex C Ewing, Alicia Alonso, American Ballet Theatre, Antony Tudor, Ballet Rambert, Dimitri Romonoff, Eugene Loring, Hugh Laing, Igor Youskevitch, Jardin aux Lilas, John Krizia, Judgment of Paris, Kevin McKenzie, Leonard Lavrovsky, Les Sylphides, Lucia Chase, Max Goberman, Michel Fokine, Mikhail Mordkin, Muriel Bentley, Nora Kaye, Oliver Smith, Prokofiev, Richard Pleasant, Romeo & Juliet | Comments (0)

Dancing with the Planets

September 16, 2013 – 10:54 pm

In Alexei Ratmanskyâ€™s new Cinderella for the Australian Ballet, the heroine is taken to the ball by a rotation of

By valerie | Posted in Features | Also tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Antony Tudor, Australian Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Cinderella, Donna Perlmutter, Gala Performance, Gustav Holst, Hugh Laing, Jardin aux Lilas, John Gilpin, Kurt Jooss, Kyra Nijinsky, Lilac Garden, Marie Rambert, Peggy van Praagh, Pillar of Fire, Sally Gilmour, Shadowplay, The Divine Horseman, The Planets | Comments (8)