Category: balanchine

• What is Contemporary Ballet?

  

  In the world of ballet, well the world of dance, everyone is throwing around the genre of contemporary ballet. But, what is contemporary ballet? If we look at the dance spectrum as a whole, contemporary would fall somewhere between classical ballet and post-modern. If we looked at a progressive timeline, contemporary ballet would fall somewhere […]

  David King

  September 17, 2017

  a ballet education, balanchine, contemporary ballet, Ramblings

  balanchine, complexions, contemporary ballet, contemporary ballet company, forsythe, lines, shaping sound

• You know you trained Balanchine Part 3…

  In today’s world of ballet, you have to be living under a rock not to know who Balanchine is. The opposite of that would be living in 1930 and thinking ballet has not changed. These days, the technique has been refined with the help of physics and anatomy. We have mastered our bodies through kinesiology. […]

  David King

  November 26, 2015

  a ballet education, balanchine, Ramblings

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• Let the boy dance

  His face was pressed against in the glass, Fingers spread wide, tapping to the muffled sound of the music. His mind was racing back and forth between reality, and fantasy. Finally, the door opened and the teacher asked, “Do you want to come in?” Looking for his mom’s approval, she nodded. He rushed in. And […]

  David King

  July 19, 2015

  a ballet education, balanchine, ballet

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• Angel… go home…

  a ballet fail…. #angel go home… your company did not work out…. Don’t ruin PA Ballet.. you obviously are another AD who needs to be replaced.  Goodbye. What makes American Ballet great is that we aren’t super classical. Leave that to France and Russia… Let us be dynamic, stylized, and musical. You just need to stop. […]

  David King

  June 3, 2015

  balanchine

  ballet life, bye girl bye, dance, Pennsylvania ballet, pointe