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Balanchine's teaching legacy.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1202 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Balanchine's teaching legacy.(Teach-Learn Connection)

Article Excerpt
TLC The iconic photo of George Balanchine, calmly opening his right hand as Iris right leg brushes forward into tendu, has come to represent the revolution in American ballet training that became an establishment. But there is disagreement about what this image illustrates. Balanchine's methodology varies according to the memories of different dancers who studied with him. His work made an entire generation famous, and many of its members now interpret his approach in their oxen teaching. As the standard bearers of a great legacy, they both conform to and depart from the original Balanchine in notable ways.

On one thing the veterans agree: Balanchine's class was structurally unconventional. Suki Schorer, now on the faculty of the School of American Ballet, describes the class as "almost a seminar on each step," where Balanchine would often work on, say, tendu or pas de chat for the entire lesson. The class generally ran 45 minutes to an hour during rehearsal and performance periods (although Schorer recalls that during layoffs his class could last three hours).

The barre generally was brief--15 to...

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