ARMAND LEAVES BOSTON BALLET.Patrick Armand, the leading male dancer of Boston Ballet History The Boston Ballet is a professional ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams and was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. , is leaving the company mid-season for a return to London to rejoin re·join 1 v. re·joined, re·join·ing, re·joins v.tr. To say in reply, especially in sharp response to a reply. v.intr. To reply. the English National Ballet English National Ballet, founded in 1950 as the "Festival Ballet" inspired by the then imminent Festival of Britain, is one of the leading ballet companies in the United Kingdom founded by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, with the financial backing of Polish impresario Julian . The French-born dancer had come to Boston from ENB in 1990. Now 34, Armand is exchanging forty weeks annually with Boston Ballet for a fifty-two-week contract with ENB that includes international touring. BB's artistic director, Anna-Marie Holmes, feels that Armand's departure will be good for him. "He is in his prime for European audiences. This change gives me a chance to show some new faces on the Boston stage," she says. On his side, Armand expressed some dissatisfaction with the company's infrequent dancer evaluations and the sparse number of guest teachers to stimulate the dancers' development. Armand's final appearances with BB included the leading role in Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, which had its BB premiere in the March 4 to 14 series; and George Balanchine's Divertimento divertimento Eighteenth-century chamber music genre consisting of several movements, often of a light and entertaining nature, for strings, winds, or both. Though the name was applied (c. No. 15 in the March 18 to 28 repertory REPERTORY. This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found. Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Merl. Repertoire, h.t. 2. program. |
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