|
Article Excerpt
THE YEAR 1904 was a very good year for dance: It was that prime vintage that saw the birth of both George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, conceivably the two greatest classical ballet choreographers of the twentieth century. The dangerously amusing spell-check on my computer renders their names as Galantine and Asthenia, and I am sure that one day someone's inadequate command of that "Ignore" key will immortalize those names in print. However, the Georgian Balanchine (originally Balanchivadze but never Galantine) arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia, in January, while the English Ashton (hardly Asthenia) arrived in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in September. They were both pioneers, Balanchine in the United Slates, and Ashton in Britain, and both regarded the nineteenth-century choreographer Marius Petipa...
|
|
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
