FPF Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 14 minutes ago, Kathleen O'Connell said: The list so far. Is anyone else missing? Ib Andersen Charles Askegard Mikhail Baryshnikov Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Erik Bruhn Joaquin DeLuz Lindsay Fischer Gonzalo Garcia Nilolai Hübbe Leonid Kozlov Robert LaFosse Ask la Cour Sean Lavery Adam Lüders Peter Martins Robert Tewsley Mel Tomlinson Helgi Tomasson Igor Zelensky Andre Eglevesky Jeroen Hofmans Jeppe Mydtskov Ivan Nagy Otto Neubert Ulrik Wivel Erlends Ziemench Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Alexander Ritter was a product of the National Ballet School in Toronto and began his career with the National Ballet of Canada. Link to comment
Helene Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Ritter was a beautiful dancer. He did lovely work for Suzanne Farrell after leaving NYCB. Link to comment
Drew Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 2 hours ago, abatt said: That ballet will never see the light of day at the Koch (or anywhere else) again. I remember Twesley partnering Whelan in Balanchine's Ballade, but they have never revived that ballet since. Tewsley left. Why have they never revived that ballet in something like 20 years? I often wonder this about Ballade. "Minor" work? Balanchine's "minor" works are almost always well worth reviving. Link to comment
FPF Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 (edited) 57 minutes ago, Helene said: Did Nilas Martin's ever go to SAB or apprentice at RDB? Yes to both. From an old Chicago Tribune article (edited to add: actually originally from the Washington Post) : https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-03-13-0303130071-story.html Perhaps Nilas Martins' life was too easy. Shortly after he became an apprentice with the Royal Danish Ballet, he was fired, he says, for "taking things for granted, in a sense." The company director insisted that he train somewhere else, England perhaps, but Martins didn't want to leave home. The 17-year-old had nowhere else to go -- except his father's house. Unlike his father, Nilas Martins didn't find quick acceptance at NYCB. The fast, aggressive technique Balanchine had bequeathed to his dancers was a drastic change from the lyrical Danish style, and Nilas spent two years at the School of American Ballet, NYCB's training arm, mastering the fundamentals. Edited March 21, 2019 by FPF Link to comment
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