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Dance for the City: Fifty Years of the 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. , a wide-ranging exhibition curated by Lynn Garafola and Eric Foner, opens April 7 at the New-York Historical Society New-York Historical Society, New York City. Founded in 1804, the society is a repository of art, artifacts, and literature relating to American, especially New York, history. and runs through October 17.... Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church St. Mark's Church may mean: - St. Mark's Church, Belgrade in Serbia
- St. Mark's Church, Zagreb in Croatia
In the United States - St. Mark's Church, Millsboro located in Sussex County, Delaware
- St.
in-the-Bowery presented an evening in memory of Viola Farber February 27, which included new works by her students.... The recently founded Media Dance International's first competition, the Grand Prix Carina Carina (kərē`nə) [Lat.,=the keel], southern constellation, representing the keel of the ancient constellation Argo Navis, or Ship of the Argonauts. Carina contains Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky. Ari, resulted in awards for Courrier du Pacifique (Grand Prix and best documentary), Intemperies (best creation for the media), Contrecoup (best adaptation from the stage to the media), and B-a-l-l-e-r-i-n-a Buchstabieren (best ballet creation).... Bill Larson won the solo world championship at the Tap Dance World Championships held in Riesa, Germany, on October 23. Kara Prete and Allison Bailey won the duet world championship.... The New York International Ballet Competition will take place June 6 to 26, 2000.... David Taylor Dance Theater has canceled its European tour.
* The ninth annual Ballet Builders will showcase the works of eight choreographers on April 17 and 18 at Florence Gould Hall in 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. . The works of Vladimir Anguelov, Daniel Catanach, Danielle A. DePersis, Julia K. Gleich, Lonne Moretton, Cristina Perera, Richard Rivera, and James Wallace were selected by New Choreographers On Point.
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