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Ballet Dancer and Musical Choreographer George Balanchine

Stage Name

Birth Name

George Balanchine

Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze

    George was the son of famous Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze. Entered the Imperial School of Ballet at the age of ten and graduating in 1921. George was also a musician as well as a Chorographer, Producer and Director. Formed his own troupe when he started dancing with the Diaghileff company.

    Balanchine was instrumental in starting the 'Baby Ballerinas'. Balanchine formed his own company in 1933 called 'Les Ballets'. Invited to the US in 1934/35 to organize the American Ballet company and the School of American Ballet. Balanchine was heavily influenced by Marius Petipa with most of his choreography being abstract. Balanchine choreographed many Broadway Musicals which was pretty much the start of Ballet choreography in Broadway .

 

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

St. Petersburg, Russia

1/22/1904 - 4/30/1983

Tamara Geva (?-1926)

n/a
           

Vera Zorina (1938)

     
           

Maria Tallcheif (1946)

     
           

Tanaquil Le Clercq (1952)

     
 

Ballets

Dance Partners

1925 - Barabau

1934 - Alma Mater

Alexandria Danilova

1925 - Pastorale

1934 - Serenade

Irina Baranova

1926 - Jack In The Box

1934 - Transcendence

Suzanne Farrell

1926 - Triumph of Neptune

1934 - Reminiscences

Tamara

1926 - The Nightingale

1934 - The Bat

Tamara Geva

1927 - La Chatte

1935? - Orpheus

Tamara Toumanova

1928 - Apollon Musagate

1935 - Card Party

     

1928 - Gods Go A Begging

1941 - Concerto Barocco

     

1929 - Le Bal

1941 - Ballet Imperial

     

1929 - Le Fils Prodigue

1944 - Waltz Academy

Music

1932 - Le Bourgeois

1946 - Danses Concertantes

Ballanchine Album

1932 - La Concurrence

1946 - Night Shadow

     

1932 - Cotillion

$1946 - Four Temperments

     

1933 - Mozartiana

1947 - Palais de Cristal

     

1933 - Errante

Chaconne

     

1933 - Songes

           

1933 - Les Sept Peches Capitaux

           
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

n/a

44th St Theater (1942)

1935 - Alma Matter

     

46th St Theatre (1942)

1935 - Dreams

     

Adelphi Theatre (1935)

1935 - Reminiscence

     

Alvin Theatre (1938)

1935 - Serenade

     

Broadhurst Theater (1940)

1935 - Transcendence

     

Broadway Theatre (1946)

1936 - On Your Toes

     

Ethel Barrymore Theatre (1947)

1937 - Babes In Arms

     

Imperial Theater (1936)

1938 - I Married An Angel

     

Majestic Theater (1937)

1938 - The Boys from Syracuse

     

Martin Beck Theatre (1940)

1940 - Cabin in the Sky

     

National Theater (1943)

1940 - Keep Off The Grass

     

New Century Theater (1945)

1940 - Louisiana Purchase

     

Royale Theatre (1951)

1942 - Rosalinda

     

Shubert Theater (1937)

1942 - The Lady Comes Across

     

St James Theatre (1948)

1943 - The Merry Widow

     

Virginia Theater (1983)

1943 - What's Up!

           

1944 - Dream with Music

           

1944 - Song of Norway

           

1945 - Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston

           

1946 - Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

           

1947 - The Chocolate Soldier

           

1947 - The Telephone

           

1948 - Where's Charley

           

1951 - Courtin' Time

           

1951 - Romeo and Juliet

           

1954 - On Your Toes

           

1963 - Nutcracker (NYC Ballet)

           

1983 - On Your Toes (Chor)

 

Films

Publications

1941 - The Goldwyn Follies

1933 - Les Ballets by Jane Pritchard

1941 - On Your Toes

1/23/1954 - Time Magazine

I Was An Adventuress

1954 - New Stories of Great Ballets by Ballanchine.

2000 - A midsummer night's dream (Chor)

6/11/1965 - Life Magazine

More on Ballanchine at Amazon.com

1983 - Balachines Ballerinas By Robert Tracy

$ 6 Ballanchine Ballerinas (Ballanchine)

7/1983 - Vogue Magazine

$ Arabesque (Ballanchine)

1985 - Balachine - Making of a master piece

$ Ballanchine Dance in America (1977)

101 Stories of the Ballet by Ballanchine

$ Ballanchine Dance in America (1978)

Complete Stories of the Ballet by Ballanchine

$ Ballanchine: Dance in America

$ Ballanchine Biography

$ Ballanchine: Dance in America I

$ George Ballanchine: Ballet Master

$ Ballanchine: Dance in America II

$ Stravinsky and Balanchine

$ Ballanchine: Dance in America III

     

$ Ballanchine: Library (Ballanchine)

     

$ Ballanchine's Nutcrackee DVD

     

$ Best of Ballanchine Gift Set

     

$ Dancing for Mr. B. (Ballanchine)

     

$ Davidsbundlertanze (Ballanchine)

     

$ Essay Arabe (Ballanchine)

     

$ Passi and Atti (Ballanchine)

     

$ Port de Bras & Epaulemnet

     

$ Prodigal Son (Ballanchine)

     

$ Robert Schu (Ballanchine)

     

$ Select from Jewels (Ballanchine)

     

$ Suzanne Farrell - Elusive Muse DVD

     

$ The Ballanchine Essays (Ballanchine)

     

$ Tzigane (Ballanchine)

     

$ Video Dictionary of Classical Ballet

     
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August 19, 2007

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