Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isabella DeVivo, left, and Wona Park in Balanchine's "Serenade." (Lindsay Thomas) Seventeen women in tulle stand in moonlight, ...
There are some odd omissions – no mention of Cotillon, one of Balanchine’s most important early works, and virtually nothing about Violette Verdy, one of his most prolific muses. More could have been ...
Long before he died in 1983, George Balanchine had established himself as the 20th-century’s most important ballet choreographer. How a poor boy who was born in pre-revolutionary Russia and fled the ...
In the two decades before his death at 79 in 1983, George Balanchine achieved the status of demigod in American dance. Master choreographer, genius of ballet, sage of the arts — he was all these and ...
Any good artist leaves behind works of value when he dies. When a great artist dies, he leaves an entire landscape transformed. George Balanchine, the protean choreographer whose centenary is being ...