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Teacher's wisdom: Violette Verdy.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 955 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Teacher's wisdom: Violette Verdy.(This Month)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
The vivacious Violette Verdy was a ballerina long before she came to dance for New York City Ballet in 1958, but many of her most beloved roles, including "Emeralds" in Jewels and Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, were created by George Balanchine expressly to highlight her sparkling stage persona. Her effervescence also makes her a natural pedagogue. She brings to teaching the same energy and keen intelligence that marked her dancing. She now coaches professional dancers and teaches at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.--MARY ELLEN HUNT

WHAT CAN A UNIVERSITY DO FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BE A PROFESSIONAL BALLET DANCER? This is the most wonderful chapter in the history of developing dancers. Nowadays, they take ballet dancers into ballet companies at age 15, 16, 17, and they are maybe technically extraordinary, wonderful little purebreds, but they do not know what it...

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