dirac Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Barbara Weisberger has died at age 94. Quote Mrs. Weisberger was a ballet teacher when Balanchine summoned her and other top instructors from around the United States to New York in 1961. He was concerned that their schools were turning out more worthy dancers than the country’s few companies at the time could hire. “If you really are serious, Mr. B.,” Mrs. Weisberger said at a cocktail party, “the place to start is Philadelphia.” Related. Quote Interment was in Temple Israel Cemetery in Swoyersville, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, no services were held. Instead, the family will host a memorial at a later date where family and friends can together celebrate Barbara’s memory and remarkable life. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 A review of English National Ballet by Jann Parry for DanceTabs. Quote The cast of seven were told to explore the movement material devised in the studio with Maliphant in order to make it their own. Yet except for the main couple, the five other dancers are anonymous: end credits name them as Isabelle Brouwers, Eireen Evrard, Giorgio Garrett, Anjuli Hudson and Junor Souza. They appear halfway through the film, seen mostly from the waist up, in flickers of light that transform them into visual echoes of the action. All the hard physical work in the studio has become incorporeal on film, the performers converted into light reflectors. Link to comment
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