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GROWING UP.(development of ballet dancers in the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet)
In ballet, one of the hardest things to predict is how a young dancer will develop. At New York City Ballet over the past two decades, talent after talent has turned up, pink and shiny, only to succumb to the mixture of anxiety and ennui that seems to rule the company these days. (Last month, it was announced that Monique Meunier, the most grievous of the troupe's stalleddevelopment cases, is finally leaving. She will join American Ballet Theatre in the fall.) Of course, there are exceptions. Jennie Somogyi, who joined the company almost eight years ago, is now showing the same kind of miraculous flowering that we used to see in young Balanchine ballerinas: week by week, ...
- APPALACHIA, MAHDAVIANI'S DIAMOND FACET.(ballet by Miriam Mahdaviani set to...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Perron, Wendy June 1, 2000 700+ words
...for this year's New York City Ballet Diamond Project--was a dancer in the company...in 1968 and danced with the City Ballet from 1979 to 1993. At that...ballets well before the first Diamond Project in 1992. Now in its fourth...
- New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: a question of resonance.
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Hunt, Marilyn September 1, 1997 700+ words
...ballets in the third edition of Peter Martins's Diamond Project at New York City Ballet, several were very successful and looked quite...marks a rare appearance of dance-theater at City Ballet, although his characteristic use of dichotomy...
- A Diamond decade. (Connoisseur's World).(New York City Ballet's Diamond Project...
- Magazine article from: Town & Country May 1, 2002 700+ words
When the New York City Ballet opens its spring season on May...mark the tenth anniversary of the Diamond Project's funding of new choreographic...just fifty will be made) in the Diamond Project's honor--more than 2 carats...
- In the company of men: the limber bodies of New York City Ballet's "Diamond...
- Magazine article from: New York Zuckerman, Alicia May 29, 2006 700+ words
WITH EACH NEW installment of the New York City Ballet's "Diamond Project"--this year marks the sixth--audiences are witnessing a legacy in the making. It's not so much that commissioning new...
- Diamonds are the New York City Ballet's best friend. (company's second biennial...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Hunt, Marilyn May 1, 1994 700+ words
...New York City - New York City Ballet's second biennial Diamond Project, sponsored by Philip...spring season [see The Diamond Project II, page 54]. Creating...took part in the 1992 Diamond Project and who will return this...
- Seven at a blow.(New York City Ballet announces choreographers of the Diamond...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine March 1, 2006 700+ words
New York City Ballet announced the choreographers of the Diamond Project festival for its spring season, and guess what? All seven are men: Mauro Bigonzetti, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Jorma Elo...
- Diamond in the Rough.(Diamond Project, New York City Ballet Company)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Green, Harris October 1, 2002 700+ words
New York City Ballet New York State Theater...June 30, 2002 New York City Ballet saluted the tenth anniversary of the Diamond Project, which had already commissioned...Diamond Fund to maintain City Ballet's reputation as a truly...
- Diamond Project's Big Bangs; City Ballet in Transition.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) July 3, 2006 700+ words
...Gottlieb The City Ballet season just...this year's Diamond Project. Senior dancers...results of the Diamond Project itself, although...Bolshoi-and for City Ballet too, if it...for the next Diamond Project. Here's a...
