Ballet masters

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Ivan Novikoff, August Bournonville, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Tamaz Vashakidze, Jean-Georges Noverre, Enrico Cecchetti, Todd Bolender, Fabio Grossi, Lew Christensen, John Clifford, Ballet master, Filippo Taglioni, Arthur Saint-Léon, Julius Reisinger, John Taras, Christian Johansson, Jean-Antoine Petipa, Louis Deland, Pyotr Gusev, Jules Perrot, Peter Martins, Nikolaj Hübbe, Poul Gnatt, Jean-Baptiste Pitrot, Jean-Pierre Aumer, Niels Bjørn Larsen, Lev Ivanov, Mansur Kamaletdinov, Antoine Bournonville, Anders Selinder, Louis Gallodier, Pierre Gardel, Joseph Hansen, Peter Boal, Brian Macdonald, Jean-Baptiste Landé, Louis Duport, Maximilien Gardel, Albert, Jean-Baptiste Brulo, Nikolai Legat, Jean-Baptiste Blache, Jocelyn Alizart, Sean Lavery, Louis Milon, Louis Dupré, Henning Kronstam, Vera Shvetsova, Piotr Zajlich, Antoine de Beaulieu, Lucien Petipa, Per Erik Wallqvist, Basil Thompson, Patrick Delcroix, Pedro Romeiras, Antoine Pitrot, Joseph Mazilier, Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani, Lisa Steier, Mary Skeaping, Gunhild Rosén, Jean-Baptiste Hus, Aleksandr Alekseievich Gorsky. Excerpt: George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 - April 30, 1983), born Giorgi Balanchivadze (Georgian: ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he expressed music with dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky. Thirty-nine of his 400 ballets were choreographed to music by Stravinsky. Balanchine's family was composed largely of composers and soldiers. His father was the noted Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze (1862-1937), was one of the initiators of the Georgian Opera. George's brother, Andria Balanchivadze (1906-1992), became a well-known Georgian composer. As a child, Balanchine was not particularly interested in ballet. His mother loved the art and had the young Giorgi audition with his sister, who shared her mother's passion for ballet. Based on his audition, during 1913 (at age nine) Balanchine relocated from rural Finland to Saint Petersburg and was accepted into the Imperial Ballet School, principal school of the Imperial Ballet, where he was a student of Pavel Gerdt and Samuil Andrianov (Pavel's son-in-law). After the Bolsheviks won the Russian Revolution of 1917, they closed and disbanded the school as an elitist symbol of the Czarist regime. To survive the privation and martial law of this period, Balanchine played the piano - for food, not for money - at cabarets and silent movie theatres. Eventually the Imperial Ballet School reopened, but with greatly reduced funding from the government. After graduating with honours during 1921, Balanchine enrolled in the Petrograd Conservatory while working in the corps de ballet at The State Academic Theatre for Opera and Ballet (formerly the State Theater of Opera and Ballet and known as the Mariinsky Ballet). His studies at the conservatory included advanced piano, music theory,