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1st u.s.-born classical ballet choreographer of world stature
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jerome robbins
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dance forms studied by robbins
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music, ballet, modern, spanish, oriental, "interpretive"
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who is the current director of nycb?
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peter martins
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name of robbins's "jazz ballet" and year
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fancy free 1944
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composer and year of robbins's "facsimile"
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bernstein, 1946
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year, main character, and star dancer of de Mille's 1948 Fall River Legend
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1948, ax murderer Lizzie Borden, played by Nora Kaye
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year ABT goes on hiatus, and who leaves
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1948, Robbins and Tudor leave
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year of ABT's resurgence
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1960s
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what was the first smash-hit ballet on an american topic?
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de mille's rodea for ballet russe in 1942
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prototype balanchine ballerina
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mary ellen moylan
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ballanchine's wife
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maria tallchief
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original director of the ballet russe de monte carlo
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blume
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second director of the ballet rusee de monte carlo
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de basil
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director of a take-off ballet russe de monte carlo which competed with the first one
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sergei denham
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where balanchine trained
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kirov
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balanchine's other subject of study
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music
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1928 dance featuring flexed hands and feet, shuffle steps, parallel positions and torso contraction
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apollo by balanchine
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the 2 big balanchine ballets from the 1920's for diaghilev's ballet russe
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apollo, prodigal son
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brought balanchine to america
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lincoln kerstein
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name and founding year of balanchine's school
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school of american ballet 1934
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name and founding year of balanchine's company
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nycb 1948
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first american ballet
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serenade
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themes of balanchine's works
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-abstract expressionsism
-literary themes -revived tutu ballets -leotard ballets -american themes -images -interesting music |
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first us season of abt
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1940
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founder of abt
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lucia chase
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company that abt morphed out of
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mordkin
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mastermind organizer in abt's early years, brought in fokine, nijinska, bolm, mordkin
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richard pleasant
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took over abt after lucia chase, company became very russian
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sol hurok
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greatest artist of the 40's, known for her giselle
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alicia markova
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british, musician, works about people, natural movement blended with ballet, neo-classicist
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antony tudor
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1942 tudor piece about a middle aged woman named hagar
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pillar of fire
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takes abt over from hurok 40's - 80's
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oliver smith
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founded in 1946 by balanchine and kirstein
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ballet society
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sculptor who did props for graham and balanchine
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isamu noguchi
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balanchine's first "reductive" work
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four temperaments for ballet society
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nycb started as part of this
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morton baum's city center of music and drama
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1953 "remake" done by robbins
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afternoon of a faun, done in a ballet classroom
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tudor's first 3 ballets for abt
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jardin aux lilas
dark elegies pillar of fire |
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co. started by robbins
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ballet - usa
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name robbins works
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afternoon of a faun, west side story, ny export: opus jazz, gypsy, les noces, dances at a gathering, moves, fancy free, on the town, fiddler on the roof
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who worked for the first dance dept. at julliard?
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graham for modern, tudor for ballet, martha hill as director
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tudor's last ballet
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leaves are fading
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broadway show that came from "fancy free"
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on the town 1944
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arthur lawrence, leonard bernstein, jerome robbins hit musical that started a new tradition
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west side story
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big broadway producer today
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jerry mitchell
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"genious on the wrong coast" LA based choreographer
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lester horton
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uses pelvic movements, swinging, native ritual steps, general purpose rather than a specific style
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horton
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ailey school is based on whose tradition
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horton
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