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ACTOR PAUL Newman Noun 1. Paul Newman - United States film actor (born in 1925)
Newman, Paul Leonard Newman , president of the philanthropic food company Newman's Own, has given $10,000 to the educational and artistic programs of The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men ... Houston Ballet The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fifth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. [1] has promoted Mireille Hassenboehler Mireille Hassenboehler (born June 2, 1973) is an American professional ballet dancer and a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet (2000-present).
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Ms. Hassenboehler trained with Harvey Hysell until the age of seventeen. and Yin Le to principal dancers, Mauricio Canete and Nicholas Leschke to soloists ... Stefano Gianetti has resigned as artistic director of Britain's Northern Ballet Theater to pursue "international opportunities," and a search is under way for his replacement ... The National Museum of Dance in Sarasota Springs, New York Springs is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the hamlet population was 4,950. , inducted Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.
Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. , Robert Joffrey Noun 1. Robert Joffrey - United States choreographer (1930-1988)
Joffrey and Alwin Nikolais into its Hall of Fame June 23 ... Italy's tenth annual video-dance festival and competition, "Il Coreografo Elettronico," will be held in Naples in November. Entries must be posted no later than September 30; for entry requirements, log on to www.napoli.com/napolidanza ... Paul Organisak, former executive director of the American College American College is the name of: - American College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- The American College in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- The American College of the Immaculate Conception, Leuven (also known as Louvain), Belgium
Dance Festival Association, was named executive director of Boston presenting organization Dance Umbrella, a post he assumed August 1 ... Boston Ballet principal dancer Kyra Strasberg retired from the company in May and plans to work as a full-time Pilates trainer and part-time dancer ... Illinois's Peoria Ballet has hired former Ballet Memphis principal dancer Erich Yetter as its new artistic director. Yetter, a native Texan, came to ballet following a high school football injury ... Forty-five international dance groups participated in the Prague Festival Dance Prize 2000 event held in the Czech Republic in April. First-place winners included Toscana, Italy's Centro Danza Movimento; St. Petersburg, Russia's Kannon Dance School and Company; San Francisco, California's Schumacher's Dance Company and Quintana Roo, Mexico's Ballet Folk Mexicano ... 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). has renewed artistic director James Kudelka's contract through 2003 and received a $500,000 donation from philanthropist Walter Carsen, but it has postponed the premiere of Edouard Lock's new ballet indefinitely ... Ballet Arkansas has appointed former Cleveland San Jose dancer Olivier Munoz as its new artistic director, effective July 1, 2000; the ballet's former academy director, Linda Hathaway, has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the company ... Dance Advance has awarded $775,000 in grants to twenty-three Philadelphia-based artists and organizations presenting dance during the 2000-2001 season. These include the Painted Bride Art Center, Pennsylvania Ballet, the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), and the dance department at Temple University ... Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago named former company member Jon Lehr as its rehearsal director, effective this May ... Two finalists of the Royal Academy of Dancing's Adeline Genee Awards 2000, conferred in April in London, have been hired by professional companies. Anita Hutchins joins Munich's Bayerisches Staatsballet and Laura Tong joins 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 ... Applications are now being accepted for the Carey Rose Winski Dance Scholarship Competition to be held Oct. 15 in Evanston Illinois. For application information, write to the Carey Rose Winski Memorial Foundation, Inc., 69 Woodley Rd., Winnetka, Illinois, 60093 ... The Dance Notation Bureau celebrated its sixtieth anniversary this spring with an awards program (at which Dance Magazine contributing editor Muriel Topaz was honored) and demonstration of a new computer program merging animation with notation ... Longtime Stuttgart Ballet favorite Marcia Haydee, 63, has been touring Germany with sixty male dancers from the Balinese Kecak Dance Ensemble ... Christopher Barron, former artistic director of the Brighton Festival, has been appointed the new Chief Executive of the Scottish Ballet and the Scottish Opera ... The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Maryland appointed Beth Hauptle as its executive director, effective this month ... Joan Roberts, executive director of The Egg, in Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany.
Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. , and Ellen Sinopoli, artistic director of its resident company, the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, received "Women of Excellence" awards from the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce in May ... Sarasota Ballet dancer Mistie Metten won the John and Anna Maria Troiano Merit Award for Artistic Accomplishment for her contributions to the Florida company over the 1999-2000 season ... Parameta, a short dance film choreographed by Marin Ballet Center for Dance instructor Cynthia Pepper and edited by Rhys Ludlow of California's Ludlow Media Services won the International Television Association Golden Vision Award/2000 for editing.
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