Former New York City Ballet Prima Ballerina with Alzheimer’s listens to Swan Lake and it all comes back ✨ The most beautiful video you’ll see today! 🎵❤️🩰⠀⠀Spanish ballerina Marta C. Gonzalez in Valencia 2019 mash-up with Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky New York City Ballet historic footage. 📹 @felipetristan ⠀
Category: History
Maya Plisetskaya honored in Moscow
One of the most celebrated dancers of the twentieth century is being honoured in Moscow this weekend. Maya Plisetskaya would have been 90 on Friday, but the ballerina died in May. Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre has pushed ahead with performances that Plisetskaya herself was helping to organise. Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports.
The Ballet Scene from the Night Porter
The Ballet Scene from the Night Porter Film By Danial Kaysi and Amal Jousou Kaysi. Performed by Amedeo Amodio, a great Italian dancer active in late 60’s, 70′ and early 80’s, now a teacher and choreographer.
Adagio Act
The Ganjou Brothers and Juanita plus a 1980s interview. Note the female conductor! [via Keiko Okuno]
Balanchine’s “Agon”
The Merce Cunningham Foundation just shared this on Facebook. For World Ballet Day, we share this ballet Merce Cunningham very much admired, George Balanchine’s “Agon,” with the original cast he would have seen. Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell in George Balanchine’s “Agon” (1957). Adams and Mitchell danced the premiere for the New York City Ballet… Continue reading Balanchine’s “Agon”
Merce Cunningham’s Dance Legacy Merce Cunningham’s legacy is in danger among American dance troups
Who is this famous ballerina?
Merce Cunningham in Sounddance
Merce Cunningham in Sounddance, with Chris Komar, Karole Armitage, Rob Remley, and Ellen Cornfield.
Tanaquil Le Clercq
In 1949, Tanaquil Le Clercq danced with Merce Cunningham in Paris. We remember her on her birthday. Pictured here in Balanchine’s “La Valse.”
Today is the anniversary of Edgar Degas’ death in 1917
Enjoy his “Dance Class” from 1871.
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