IRISH DANCE IN IRELAND AND NEW YORK CITY.John Scott's Irish Modern Dance Theatre (right, in Intimate Gold) performs works by artistic director John Scott and by associate choreographer Sean Curran, at St. Mark's Church St. Mark's Church may mean:
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. , performed in Ireland last fall. Ireland's Cork City Ballet boasts that its annual performances, held in April, will take place in the Firkin fir·kin n. 1. A small wooden barrel or covered vessel. 2. Any of several British units of capacity, usually equal to about 1/4 of a barrel or 9 gallons (34 liters). Crane Theater, where Curran's company danced last November. * John Prinz spent sixteen years as a principal dancer in New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. (1964-1970) and 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. (1970-79), but to hear Prinz tell it, what he really loves is working with small ballet companies. Upon leaving ABT ABT About ABT Abteilung (German: Department) ABT Abbott Laboratories (stock symbol) ABT American Ballet Theatre ABT Associação Brasileira de Telemarketing ABT Abort ABT Availability Based Tariff , he trotted the globe teaching, choreographing, serving as ballet master, and staging ballets by Robbins and Balanchine before settling in London to teach professional classes at studios in Covent Garden. Prinz's latest work, a new staging of the ballet Cinderella, has its world premiere this April in Colorado, performed by the Boulder Ballet, a midsize pre-professional company. Principal roles are danced by Robin Canup Mihran, Anna Blackburn-Wittman, Kristin St. John, and Aha Claire. Aspen Ballet's Seth DelGrasso guest stars as does former Royal Ballet principal Peter Franklin White. Excited at the prospect of choreographing again, Prinz says he also appreciates the excitement of the Boulder Ballet dancers. "They are so hardworking. I often find these situations more enjoyable than working with more established companies. These dancers have such eagerness." A recent run-through revealed a cast well on its way to realizing Prinz's artistic vision. |
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