Choreographers including George Balanchine relied on Franklin to keep their tradition alive, Ausman said.
Still, the Oregon Ballet Theatre is set to retire its Balanchine "Nutcracker" in the near future.
The two divorced after several years, but Ms. Tallchief continued to perform under Mr. Balanchine's direction.
The two were married when Ms. Tallchief was 21 and Mr. Balanchine was 42.
An accomplished pianist, she and Mr. Balanchine shared a love of music as well as dance.
I'll never forget seeing George Balanchine's "Prodigal Son" performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem for a mostly black audience.
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As he watches the creative process of his friends Stravinsky and Balanchine, he becomes inspired to begin composing again.
The first week of the season offers a mix of familiar and rarely seen works by Balanchine and Robbins.
The American-music theme brought forth a fine revival of "Ivesiana, " Balanchine's eerie and shadowy 1954 suite of haunting dance incidents.
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For all his inconsistent taste in dancers and choreographers, Mr. Martins has always given prominence to the works of George Balanchine.
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George Balanchine, for example, is best remembered for the many "plotless" ballets that he made to the music of Igor Stravinsky.
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Six years later, Smirnov is a principal dancer with the company, doing classic Balanchine roles he'd dreamed of performing as a student.
After high school, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1942, where she came to the attention of Mr. Balanchine.
Finesse of footwork, which both Balanchine's and Mr. Ratmansky's choreography showcases, receded in Mr. Page's and Mr. Wheeldon's works, as did the women's impact.
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Beautifully lighted by Mark Stanley and neatly outfitted in uncredited costuming, "Ivesiana" shows a side of Balanchine not readily found in his extensive NYCB repertory.
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This is the city of Balanchine and Baryshnikov, Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky.
Mr. Morrow's composition even faintly recalled the Webern selections Balanchine used.
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The actors all give memorable performances, especially Mr. Cerveris (right), who evokes the charismatic Balanchine with uncanny precision, even managing to suggest a dancer's lithe physicality.
The group is privileged to enjoy a private rehearsal of the Stravinsky-Balanchine's gestating avant-garde ballet "Orpheus, " which would soon premiere and be hailed as a masterpiece.
" Sara Mearns, on and off during the run due to injury, made burning impressions wherever she did appear, particularly leading the "waltz" of Balanchine's "Serenade.
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In 1947, Mr. Balanchine became a guest choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet Company, and Ms. Tallchief became the first American to perform with the company.
What happens when these social-media savants go back to the ballet (which I hope they do) and wind up at a program of "only" Balanchine and Robbins?
Six years after Balanchine came to America, the exclusive Curtis Institute, a music academy in Philadelphia, extended an invitation to teach to Rudolf Serkin, an Austrian-trained pianist.
The Balanchine "Nutcracker" has an exclusive pedigree only seven ballet companies are licensed to perform it world-wide, and it must be executed precisely as the famed choreographer wanted it.
Let's hope "Symphony in C" one of Balanchine's masterpieces works its magic.
First shown in 1991 with Tchaikovsky's famous 1890 score and Balanchine's richly figured 1981 "Garland Dance, " the production features scenic designs by David Mitchell and costumes by Patricia Zipprodt.
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I'd seen it happen a half-dozen times without incident in the past, but that night the audience let out a huge whoop of delight at the sheer cheekiness of Balanchine's choreography.
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George Balanchine's classic dances dominated the season's opening weeks.
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Mr. Possokhov's desperately sexy but hardly mysterious rite, which closes one of the programs, stands in stark contrast to "Scotch Symphony, " George Balanchine's 1952 Mendelssohn-motivated reverie on Scotland's highlands, which opens the other.
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Of the eight pieces on these two programs, only one is by Balanchine: "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, " an experimental duet that is possibly the most un-Balanchine work in the entire repertory.
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