San Francisco Ballet, Willam Christensen, Artistic Director
Author | : San Francisco Ballet Guild |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Ballet |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : San Francisco Ballet Guild |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Ballet |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Janice Ross |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-11-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780811856980 |
Long renowned as one of the world's preeminent ballet companies, San Francisco Ballet marks its seventy-fifth anniversary with a stunningly beautiful retrospective. Replete with intimate portraits of the dancers and behind-the-scenes contributors, this book is the first serious depiction of America's oldest ballet company. Included in this deluxe package is a DVD that provides insight into the company's illustrious history and together with the book, tells the story of how San Francisco Ballet has forged a fresh identity for American dance and is now pioneering a new model of internationalism in the dance world.
Author | : Debra Hickenlooper Sowell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 113442261X |
With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties. Their story sheds light on the history of ballet in twentieth-century America, both through their accomplishments as dancers, teachers, and company directors, and through their association with some of the most significant figures of the dance world such as Lincoln Kirstein, George Balanchine, Sol Hurok, and the Ford Foundation's W. McNeil Lowry. This triple biography encompasses the brothers' Mormon pioneer heritage, the circumstances that led them to enter vaudeville with a ballet act, and the rise and fall especially in the American West of companies with which they were associated for over six decades of their lives. This book provides an alternative to the New York-oriented volumes that so often pass as histories of American dance. Debra Hickenlooper Sowell received the De la Torre Bueno Special Ci
Author | : Cobbett Steinberg |
Publisher | : [San Francisco] : San Francisco Ballet Association : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780877012962 |
Author | : Helgi Tomasson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Ballet programs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard E. LeBlond |
Publisher | : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Debra Hickenlooper Sowell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134422547 |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Chris Barton |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467788481 |
Every December, The Nutcracker comes to life in theaters all across the United States. But how did this 19th-century Russian ballet become such a big part of the holidays in 21st-century America? Meet Willam, Harold, and Lew Christensen, three small-town Utah boys who caught the ballet bug in the early 1900s. They performed on vaudeville and took part in the New York City dance scene. Russian immigrants shared the story of The Nutcracker with them, and during World War II, they staged their own Christmastime production in San Francisco. It was America's first full-length version and the beginning of a delightful holiday tradition.
Author | : Phil Chan |
Publisher | : R. R. Bowker |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781734732481 |
Who would have guessed that one short conversation with New York City Ballet Artistic Director Peter Martins would change the course of how we approach America's favorite holiday ballet, and serve as a catalyst for changing how we talk about race in America? Phil Chan, arts advocate and co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, chronicles his journey navigating conversations around race, representation, and inclusion arising from issues in presenting one short dance-the Chinese variation from The Nutcracker. Armed with new vocabulary, he recounts his process and pitfalls in advising Salt Lake City's Ballet West on the presentation of a lost Balanchine work from 1925, Le Chant du Rossignol.Chan encounters orientalism, cultural appropriation, and yellowface, and witnesses firsthand the continuing evolution of an Old World aristocratic dance form in a New World democratic environment. As a storyteller, Chan presents a mix of dance and Chinese American history, personal anecdotes, and best practices for any professional arts organization to use for navigating issues around race, while outlining an essential path American ballet must take in order for our beloved art form to stay alive for a growingly diverse 21st century audience.
Author | : Martha Ullman West |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0813065844 |
Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed. Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914–2006) and Reed (1916–2000) were part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great Depression, World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar New York City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and Willam Christensen, Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Catherine Littlefield, Ruthanna Boris, and others who West argues were just as responsible for the direction of American ballet as the legendary George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. The stories of Bolender, Reed, and their contemporaries also demonstrate that the flowering of American ballet was not simply a New York phenomenon. West includes little-known details about how Bolender and Reed laid the foundations for Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet in the 1970s and how Bolender transformed the Kansas City Ballet into a highly respected professional company soon after. Passionate in their desire to dance and create dances, Bolender and Reed committed their lives to passing along their hard-won knowledge, training, and work. This book celebrates two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the establishment of ballet in America from one coast to the other.