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Then and Now
From its time at Studio 61 in Carnegie Hall, the Ballet Arts school has played host to such early dance pioneers as The Isadora Duncan Dancers, Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, and Yeichi Nimura. Later, when classical ballet captured the American imagination, Ballet Arts was foremost in providing teaching and rehearsal space to such legendary figures as Michael Mordkin and Lucia Chase (who would shortly found a company called Ballet Theatre), Agnes DeMille, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. After WWII, Ballet Arts was a mecca for some of the greatest teachers in the country: Alexander Danilova, Margaret Craske, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Rosella Hightower, Eugene Loring, Vera Nemtchinova, Bronislava Nijinska, Nina Stroganova, and Anthony Tudor. Since that time, the school has attracted an ever-wider range of teachers in all disciplines, but it is in the field of ballet that Ballet Arts has shown its leadership: Willy Burmann, Robert Blankshine, Nanette Glushak, Woytek Lowsky and Bo Spasoff, among many others. They provide an important transition to the modern era. Today, Ballet Arts at City Center is poised to take its place among the finest schools in the United States. With a new faculty of outstanding achievement, the next phase for Ballet Arts envisions an open academy with accreditation for foreign students, workshops, and showcases that feature and foster new choreography and an international teacher and student training program for the summer of 2001. For over 60 years, Ballet Arts has been a center for creative learning in the field of dance. We look forward to continuing and expanding the boundaries of that work into the new century. -Peter Anastos |
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Lee Please Take Note There has been a trend for students to take classes beyond their technical level as a matter of convenience or a status symbol. For a student to push into a class beyond his or her ability is disrespect to the instructor and other students and above all, a roadblock to the sought after progress of the student. Vital to the progress of each student -- advanced, intermediate or beginner is a clear recognition of the standards and grade levels of each class. Only then can there be real progress and eventual attainment. |
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