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Dance's own temple: in 1948 Morton Baum asked an astonished Lincoln Kirstein if he would like Ballet Society to become New York City Ballet.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dance's own temple: in 1948 Morton Baum asked an astonished Lincoln Kirstein if he would like Ballet Society to become New York City Ballet.(attitudes)

Article Excerpt
Just around now City Center starts its regular rite of fall, aka the Fall for Dance Festival, the opening of the 2007-08 dance season. Its resident companies are American Ballet Theatre, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. The theater's first resident dance company, admittedly long flown that particular coop, was New York City Ballet. It's a theater with a curious history.

New York City Center--for New Yorkers the name has a special ring to it, a kind of institutional magic. As a theater it is not particularly wonderful. It's rather a barn of a place, with a stage wide but none too deep, inadequate wing and storage space, poor backstage conditions, a house that has too...

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