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home of Los Danzantes de Alegria and Grupo Folklorico Mexico Tenochtitlan. Site also contains calendar of events, Mexican folk dance directory and links.
(Choreographer, Artistic Director) received his early training on full scholarship and stipend at the School of American Ballet, at the American Ballet Theatre School, and at the Harkness House of Ballet Arts. As a dancer, Alonzo King worked with a wide range of choreographers and companies including: Dance Theater of Harlem, Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, Harkness Youth Company, Donald McKayle, Lucas Hoving and Glen Tetley.
In 1969, Alvin Ailey founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York, with an initial enrollment of 125 students. Guided by the belief that dance instruction should be made available to everyone, he joined forces with Pearl Lang in 1970 to establish the American Dance Center in Manhattan. Today, under the direction of Denise Jefferson, a prestigious faculty trains approximately 3,000 students annually at the school's spacious studios at the Dance and Design Center, on Alvin Ailey
Place, near Lincoln Center. Students are drawn from every part of the world, contributing to a multi-cultural richness unique to dance schools.
Well in to its sixth decade, American Ballet Theatre is recognized as one of the great dance companies in the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope and outreach. Recognized as a living treasure since its founding in 1940, ABT annually tours the United States, performing for more than 600,000 people. It has made more than 15 international tours to 41 countries.
The home page of the Ballets Russes. Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was an impresario, the manager of the Ballets Russes that created a sensation in Western Europe in the early years of the 20th century. Born in Perm and active as a young man in artistic circles, Diaghilev formed the
Ballets Russes in 1909 and ran it until his death in 1929. The dancers and choreographers associated with the Ballets Russes included George Balanchine, Alexandra Danilova, Michel Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Alicia Markova, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Tamara Toumanova, among many others. His designers included Bakst, Braque, Picasso, Tchelitchev, and Utrillo. His composers included Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, and, most notably, Igor Stravinsky , whom Diaghilev spotted when he was virtually unknown
and whose career he launched.
Have you heard of anyone that danced for many years and yet hadn't learned the fundamentals? They missed scholarships, auditions, teaching opportunities, and other professional dance-related positions because they
didn't know the basics. We've heard many similar stories and decided to do something about it. As a result, we created Dance Arts Institute of America, Inc. to provide dancers with a national standards program. In addition to standards, we wanted to motivate our dancers to continue dancing, and be recognized as they progress. A national database of each dancer's accomplishments will be kept for the use of competitions, auditions, scholarships, and transitioning from one studio to another.
Gene Kelly was a vital part of the spirit and legend of dance in America. An American in Paris, winner of the 1951 Academy Award for Best Picture. The film won six other Oscars as well, including one to Gene Kelly for his "extreme versatility as an actor, singer, director, and
dancer, but specifically for his brilliant achievement in the art of choreography on film." The film, directed by Minnelli, introduced
Leslie Caron and used the wonderful music of George and Ira Gershwin.
Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) was the central figure of the modern dance movement. In more than 180 works created during a career of over fifty years, Graham developed an original technique involving the expression of primal emotions through stylized bodily movement of great intensity. Martha Graham started dancing in 1916 with the Denishawn company, and she began her independent career in 1926 in New York City. Introducing innovative stage design into her repertoire with a set created by Isamu Noguchi for her 1935 solo dance Frontier, Graham began a collaboration with the sculptor that lasted for three decades.
The next major change in vernacular dance after minstrelsy came with the advent of ragtime music and ballroom dancing after 1910. The Stearns say that before 1910, there were only two types of songs, happy or sad (95). During this decade, songs whose lyrics described how to do a dance were being written by Negro composers. A barrage of animal dances, indirectly inspired by African animal dances, swept white ballrooms. Some of these were the Turkey Trot, the Monkey Glide, the Chicken
Scratch, and the Bunny Hug. The invasion of ballrooms with vernacular inspired dances set the stage for the same process to occur in the white world of Broadway.
Welcome to The Square and Round Dance WebRing. This ring is designed and intended to link square, round, and contra, and clogging dance sites to create more exposure for the GREAT AMERICAN FOLK DANCES.If your site relates to square dance, round dance, contra or clogging, please join the ring. Clubs, individuals, links pages, suppliers, callers and commercial sites of interest are welcome.
Born in Kiev in 1890, Vaslav Nijinsky was the second son of Thomas Laurentiyevich Nijinsky and Eleonora Bereda; both his parents were celebrated dancers, and his father in particular was famous for his
virtuosity and enormous leaps. His father, noticing the child's great disposition for dancing, gave him his first lessons. In 1909 Serge Diaghilev, former assistant to the administrator of the Imperial Theatres,
was commissioned by the grand duke Vladimir to organize a ballet company of the members of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres. Diaghilev decided to take the company to Paris in the spring and asked Nijinsky to join as principal dancer.
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