`ELEMENTS' HIGHLIGHTS MIXED REPERTORY PROGRAM.American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. also will present a mixed repertory program, highlighted by the West Coast debut of a new work by Twyla Tharp Noun 1. Twyla Tharp - innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941) Tharp , ``The Elements.'' The ballet, created for American Ballet Theatre, had its premiere May 3 in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The abstract piece was choreographed to ``Les Elements,'' a 1737 piece by Baroque composer Jean-Fery Rebel. Tharp divides the solo dancers into two main groups, as she has done in other ballet works. The scheduled casting is: 8 p.m. Wednesday: ``Theme'': Paloma Herrera Paloma Herrera (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 21, 1975), is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri. , Guillaume Graffin; ``Leaves'': Amanda McKerrow, Wes Chapman; ``The Elements'': Shawn Black, Sandra Brown, Marian Butler, Amanda McKerrow, Kathleen Moore, Ashley Tuttle, Maxim Belotserkovsky, Gil Boggs, Wes Chapman, Griff n. 1. Grasp; reach. A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff. - Holland. 2. (Weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. Braun, Keith Roberts, John Selya; ``A Brahms Symphony'': Kathleen Moore, Sandra Brown, Keith Roberts, Angel Corella. 8 p.m. Thursday: ``Theme'': Julie Kent, Jeremy Collins; ``Leaves'': Marianna Tcherkassky, Keith Roberts; ``The Elements'': same as Wednesday; ``A Brahms Symphony'': Kathleen Moore, Marianna Tcherkassky, Keith Roberts, Angel Corella. |
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