Diamonds are the New York City Ballet's best friend.New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. - New York City Ballet's second biennial Diamond Project, sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc., will present a blitz of twelve new ballets by as many choreographers, May 18, 19, 21, 26, and 31, and June 3, during the company's spring season [see The Diamond Project II, page 54]. Creating their first works for NYCB NYCB New York City Ballet NYCB New York Community Bank will be Danish choreographer Anna Laerkesen; NYCB principal Damian Woetzel; Ulysses Dove, whose dances are frequently performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 30 dancers as well as artistic director Judith Jamison and associate artistic director Masazumi Chaya. ; Trey Mclntyre, a member of Houston Ballet; and Kevin O'Day, who recently made a witty and Tharpian piece for White Oak Dance Project, of which he is a member. Choreographers who took part in the 1992 Diamond Project and who will return this year are David Allan, John Alleyne, Robert LaFosse, Miriam Mahdaviani, Peter Martins, Richard Tanner, and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. William Forsythe, originally announced as a participant, withdrew because of his wife's death. Laerkesen, making her New York City debut as a choreographer, is a former Royal Danish Ballet Royal Danish Ballet, one of the oldest major ballet companies, established at the opening of Denmark's Royal Theater in Copenhagen in 1748. The company was developed over the centuries by three great masters. principal who has been making ballets for RDB See Oracle Rdb. 1. Rdb - Oracle Rdb 2. rdb - A roll-your-own database, created in the Unix toolkit philosophy. It appears to be written in the awk language, and is very compatible with awk. It uses awk's syntax and can be combined with awk commands. with strong musical choices and technical challenges that are used to poetic ends. San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. commissioned its first piece from her this season. For NYCB she is setting Johannes Brahms's Violin Concerto and plans to use former RDB dancer Nikolaj Hubbe, for whom she has previously choreographed exciting parts, along with Wendy Whelan and six couples. Familiar as a dancer but less so as a choreographer is NYCB dynamo Woetzel. Having primarily choreographed for students at the School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet is located in New York City, in Lincoln Center. It is considered one of the most prestigious and notable ballet schools in the United States and teaches some of the most talented young dancers in the country. , he says he is very excited about doing a ballet for the professional company. Working with a pianist and a ballet mistress, he says, will be "more fun than just me and a tape recorder." Having recently choreographed Igor Stravinsky's Sonata for Two Pianos, Woetzel has chosen the composers Ebony Concerto for the Diamond Project. "The music is less complicated than the sonata," Woetzel says of the ten-minute-long concerto, "but at least as complicated to choreograph. The jazz influence in it could be a pitfall - being too jazzy could ruin it. Let's just say you have to make the right choices." He says his cast "will be great." |
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