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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 [2] by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, it is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. [citation needed] Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring ...
The American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States.The company was founded with the help of Lincoln Kirstein [1] and Edward Warburg, [2] managed by Alexander Merovitch [3] and populated by students of Kirstein and Balanchine's School of American Ballet. [4]
Anne Benna Sims was the first African-American danseuse at American Ballet Theatre [1] and the first African-American soloist in the company's history. [2] Sims' professional career began with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens where she danced in the corps de ballet. In 1972 she was invited to join the Geneva Opera Ballet by company director Alfonso ...
Misty Copeland. Misty Danielle Copeland (born September 10, 1982) [1] is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. [2] On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to a principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history. [3]
Debra Austin. Debra Austin was the very first African-American ballerina to receive a principal dancer contract with a major American ballet company [3] in 1982 with the Pennsylvania Ballet. There she danced the principal roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, and La Sylphide. Dancing these roles with a white partner was a further breakthrough.
The Metropolitan Opera House (also known as The Met) is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center, the theater was designed by Wallace K. Harrison. It opened in 1966, replacing the original 1883 Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street.
Ballet Imperial George Balanchine: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Rouben Ter-Arutunian: 10 February 1988 Ballo Della Regina George Balanchine: Giuseppe Verdi: Dale Wibben 23 October 2007 Barn Dance Catherine Littlefield: David Guion, John Powell, Louis Gottschalk: Salvatore Pinto 9 May 1944 Baroque Game Robert Hill Dmitry Polischuk Santo Loquasto ...
Bell joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in September 2014, joined the main Company as an apprentice in May 2016 and became a member of the corps de ballet in March 2017. He was promoted ...