NEWS of the Century.These excerpts from Dance Magazine retain their original spelling and punctuation. 1985 FEBRUARY--Katherine Healy, the fifteen-year-old American dancer who won a gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in 1983 at age fourteen, made her British debut November 23.... APRIL--Five days after dancing his farewell performance with 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. on January 27 ... Helgi Tomasson was named the new director of the 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. .... It didn't make the east coast papers, but the recent demise of the ten-year-old Los Angeles Ballet was big news out west.... MAY--Often described as an exuberant ambassador for Danish classicism classicism, a term that, when applied generally, means clearness, elegance, symmetry, and repose produced by attention to traditional forms. It is sometimes synonymous with excellence or artistic quality of high distinction. , thirty-two-year-old Frank Andersen has been named artistic director of the 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. .... AUGUST--Following the example of the Joffrey Ballet and the Cincinnati/New Orleans City Ballet, the Cleveland Ballet has found itself a second home. The thirty-seven-member company ... announced its partnership in late June with the City Center Ballet of San Jose.... SEPTEMBER--Anthony Dowell, the Royal Ballet's brightest male star, sat quietly in a chair while the company's directors announced at a board meeting in June that Dowell would succeed Norman Morrice as Royal Ballet artistic director.... 1986 JANUARY--John Travolta, dancing star of Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive, whirled Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, princess of Wales orig. Lady Diana Frances Spencer (born July 1, 1961, Sandringham, Norfolk, Eng.—died Aug. 31, 1997, Paris, France) Consort (1981–96) of Charles, prince of Wales. around the ballroom floor at a fall White House state dinner. Of the future Queen of England Noun 1. Queen of England - the sovereign ruler of England female monarch, queen regnant, queen - a female sovereign ruler , Travolta reportedly declared, "She has style and rhythm." ... In February, 1983, we reported the appearance of a disease new to the Western Hemisphere called Acquired Immune Deficiency immune deficiency n. See immunodeficiency. Syndrome--AIDS. The report of 788 fatalities at that time from this disease seemed little justification for alarm. Yet, our worst fears have been realized. AIDS deaths have doubled every year and become the fear and concern of the entire nation.... MARCH--In a city where change is suspect, the Boston Ballet has undergone enough shifts in direction, goals, style, and personality to have frightened off many of its subscribers and friends.... Enter Bruce Marks, who is viewed here with enormous optimism and hope as the savior of the company.... APRIL--The twenty-nine-year-old New York City Ballet principal dancer Joseph Duell ... will continue to live in our minds.... MAY--Over the last several years, President Reagan's administration has suggested that arts organizations faced with reduced governmental allocations (amid consistent inflation) look to the private sector for compensating support.... Darci Kistler, who was sidelined for two years following an injury, again dazzled audiences during 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. Ballet's winter season at Lincoln Center.... DECEMBER--Now readying another evening-long work, The Eternal Trilogy, for a December 3 opening at the fourth Next Wave Festival, [Bill T.] Jones and [Arnie] Zane are no longer so up-and-coming. They've arrived.... 1987 DECEMBER--The entire Belgian press corps squeezed into the ornate foyer of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie on September 18, when director Gerard Mortier introduced American choreographer Mark Morris. Next season, Mortier announced, the Mark Morris Dance Group will replace Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the Twentieth Century at the theater.... Dancer/director/choreographer/ writer Bob Fosse died September 23 of a heart attack en route to the Washington, D.C., opening of his Tony Award-winning musical Sweet Charity.... 1988 MAY--As this issue was going to press, the tragic news was received of the death on March 25 of Robert Joffrey, 57, after a long illness.... JUNE--A recent national survey indicates ... that the use of videocassette recorders may be replacing attendance at live performances, that a majority of Americans support arts education for their children, and that women support the arts more than men do.... Choreographer and dancer Arnie Zane, the coartistic director of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, died March 30 of AIDS-related lymphoma.... AUGUST--The 1988 AIDS Walk New York AIDS Walk New York is an annual fundraising walkathon that benefits Gay Men's Health Crisis and over 50 other local AIDS service organizations. Founded in 1986, it's now the largest walkathon in the world, and the largest AIDS fundraiser in the world by participation. last May was the most lucrative fund-raising event held to date in the fight against the disease.... The single largest contribution was more than $54,000 raised by New York City Ballet principal dancers Heather Watts and Jock Soto.... 1989 JULY--"Mark Morris Go Home!" screamed (in English) the front page of Brussels's usually dignified newspaper Le Soir on April 21, two days after the Belgian premiere of the American choreographer's "Mythologies." With Valerie Wilder and Lynn Wallis stepping down, Reid Anderson will assume the post of artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada National Ballet of Canada, the leading Canadian ballet company. Based in Toronto, it was founded (1951) by Celia Franca (1921–2007) and modeled on Sadler's Wells (now the Royal Ballet). .... AUGUST--At presstime press·time n. The time at which a publication, especially a newspaper, is submitted for printing. , word was received that Mikhail Baryshnikov had resigned his position as artistic director of 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. .... 1990 FEBRUARY--American choreographer Anna Sokolow became a victim of the drastically changed political situation in Germany, when she was vehemently booed at the West Berlin German Opera.... A work of unrelieved gloom and despair, Rooms could not have been performed at a more inappropriate time. For this was the Sunday when the whole city of Berlin rejoiced in the "fall" of the infamous Berlin wall.... [Alvin] Ailey, who died in New York City on December 1, 1989, of a rare blood disease, was famed for his work as a pioneering choreographer and artistic director.... MARCH--In an orderly transition following Alvin Ailey's death in December 1989, Judith Jamison has been appointed artistic director of 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. .... APRIL--At presstime, it was announced that Patrick Dupond ... had been appointed to head the Paris Opera Ballet The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra national de Paris, otherwise known as the Palais Garnier, though known more popularly simply as the Paris Opéra. , replacing the ousted Rudolf Nureyev.... |
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