Balanchine Ballet Perspective
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- Sep 28, 2024
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Writer: Dancerina Starlight / October 2024
George Balanchine was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th-century. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded the New York City Ballet and remained its artistic director for more than 35 years.
Balanchine's style has been described as neo-classical. Training in Balanchine technique allows dancers to utilize more space in less time, speed, and spatial expansion. Specific characteristics include extreme speed and very deep plié emphasis on-line, with use of unconventional, asymmetrical, abstract arm and hand placement pirouettes end dehors taken from a lunge in fourth position rather than the conventional plié in...
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