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City Center: A Remarkable History

Michael Kaiser | Posted 12.31.2011 | Arts
Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Fall for Dance, Desmond Richardson, Jessica Tandy, Arlene Shuler, Encores!, George Balanchine, Gwen Verdon, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Jerome Robbins, American Ballet Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, La Guardia, New York City, Arts Management, Twyla Tharp, New York City Opera, City Center, Arts, Matthew Rushing, Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Hume Cronyn, Kennedy Center, Helen Hayes, New York City Ballet, Judith Jamison, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

The ghosts of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey and too many others to name are hopefully still in residence, inspiring a new generation of artists to create great works.

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Cinderella as a Box Office Sweep for the Joffrey Ballet?

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Robert Kurka, Cinderella, Joffrey Ballet, Good Soldier Schweik, Long Beach Opera, Frederick Ashton, Matthew Bourne, Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

What did this extraordinary company do at the Music Center Pavilion? You guessed right: it put away one-act connoisseur feasts and brought out the bread and butter: Sir Frederick Ashton's Cinderella

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Christopher Wheeldon is Trying Very Hard to Make Ballet Hip, Sexy and Accessible, But Will He Be Successful?

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Ballet, Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Maria Kowroski, Lightfoot Leon, Drew Jacoby, Frederick Ashton, Fashion, Rubinald Pronk, Wendy Whelan, Les Ballets Russes, Christopher Wheeldon, Emily Molnar, New York City Ballet, Morphoses, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Of all ballet artists, Wheeldon one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world these days and seems to be trying the hardest to bring ballet back.

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