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17 unusual facts about American Ballet Theatre


Annabelle Lyon

Three years later she was one of the original dancers of Ballet Theatre, now known as American Ballet Theatre.

Asher Edelman

Edelman has served on many Boards of Trustees of art and educational institutions including past Chairman of the Board of Brooklyn Academy of Music, Vice Chairman of American Ballet Theatre, Vice Chairman of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Chairman of the Karole Armitage Dance Group, board member of the Prix de Lausanne, Gotham Chamber Opera, and many others.

Ballet Theatre of Maryland

The school's professional faculty trains students from an anatomically-based syllabus with expertise in styles from such schools as the American Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, Connecticut Ballet Theatre, Richmond Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet.

Daniel M. Ziff

In 2009, Ziff married Leslie, who serves on the boards of the American Ballet Theatre and Rosie's Theater Kids.

Dennis Wayne's Dancers

The dancers came from a variety of different companies, including Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.

Doris Singleton

Singleton, born in New York City, trained as a classical ballerina, dancing for three seasons in the mid-1930s with the newly formed "Ballet Theatre", later to become the American Ballet Theatre.

Eva Evdokimova

Throughout her career, she danced with numerous other companies, including the Kirov Ballet, where she was coached by Natalia Dudinskaya, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet.

Goh Choo San

American Ballet Theatre commissioned Configurations to be created for Mikhail Baryshnikov soon after.

Heather Parisi

Born in Los Angeles, Parisi worked some time in the United States, including the San Francisco Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre in New York, then, during a vacation in Italy, she was noticed by the coreographer Franco Miseria who made her do an audition in RAI; in 1979 Parisi debuted in the show Luna Park hosted by Pippo Baudo.

Herbert Ross

By 1950 he was a choreographer with the American Ballet Theatre and choreographed his first Broadway production, the Arthur Schwartz-Dorothy Fields musical adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Jaclyn A. Smith

Smith is also a professional dancer, having studied with the Toronto Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre and Kirov Academy of Ballet.

John Selya

He joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1988, where he danced roles such as Birbanto and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Lead Gypsy in Don Quixote, Head Fakir in La Bayadere, Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia, and an Ugly Stepsister in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella.

Margaret Craske

She lived in India from 1939 until 1946, when she moved to the United States and resumed teaching, first at the American Ballet Theatre.

Mendocino Ballet

Students are given the opportunity to audition for summer programs for world renowned companies such as American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet.

NAO Dance Technique

Elchak is a passionate mother, dancer, choreographer, and educator, trained with teachers from the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, The International Ballet of Cuba, the Denishawn School, and Isadora Duncan Dance.

North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Performance Festival

In addition to playing in orchestras and on stages worldwide, recent alumni have won the Metropolitan Opera's National Finalist award, performed on Broadway, played in the Grammy orchestra, acted in films and TV series and joined professional dance companies like Limon, Pilobolus, and American Ballet Theatre.

Sallie Wilson

Sallie Wilson (1932–2008) was a noted ballerina who appeared with New York City Ballet where she danced opposite Martha Graham in the premiere of Graham and George Balanchine's collaboration at NYCB, Episodes in May, 1959, and subsequently with American Ballet Theatre, where she was associated with several ballets created by Antony Tudor.


Agnes de Mille

De Mille began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre (then called the Ballet Theatre) in 1939, but her first significant work, Rodeo (1942) with the score by Aaron Copland, was staged for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Artown

Artown has welcomed such international, national, and local artists as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marcel Marceau, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Project Bandaloop, the American Ballet Theatre and Harlem Gospel Choir just to name a few.

Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre

The group's home is the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Webster (in the Clear Lake Area near Houston), whose faculty résumés include the Houston Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre, and Broadway.

Eugene Loring

After choreographic residence at Bennington College, Vermont, where he made some works, Loring joined Ballet Theatre (now ABT) in 1939, where, in that company's first season, he choreographed and danced in his The Great American Goof, with libretto by William Saroyan.

Fernando Bujones

Throughout his 30 year dancing career he performed as a guest artist in 34 countries and with more than 60 companies including such well known ones as American Ballet Theatre, the Royal Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, the Paris Opera, the Royal Danish Ballet, La Scala of Milan, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, the Australian Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, and Boston Ballet.

Joe McNally

McNally’s advertising, marketing and promotional work includes FedEx, Nikon, Sony, Land's End, General Electric, MetLife, Bogen, Adidas, Kelby Media Group, Wildlife Conservation Society, Epson, and American Ballet Theatre.

Palle Jacobsen

but internationally with the American Ballet Theatre, the London Contemporary Dance School, the London Festival Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet, the Norwegian National Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle.

Superfund Group

Superfund promotes its funds by sponsoring cultural institutions like the Viennese Symphony Orchestra and the American Ballet Theatre, sports teams and personalities like Austrian soccer team Kapfenberger SV and World Cup overall champion alpine skier Bode Miller, and some other pop-culture events such as the Women's World Awards.

Tener Brown

Tener Brown (or Carolyn Tener Brown, born 1960) is an American ballet coach of New Jersey Ballet, a former ballet dancer of American Ballet Theatre, and a former actress.

Violette Verdy

She went on to dance with Les Ballets de Paris (1950; 1953–1954), the London Festival Ballet (1954–1955), La Scala, Milan (1955–1956), and the American Ballet Theatre (1956–1957).