Choreographers including George Balanchine relied on Franklin to keep their tradition alive, Ausman said.
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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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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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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After a brief stint in London, George Balanchine (as he was by then) moved to America in 1933, where he founded American ballet, and became perhaps the most inventive choreographer of the 20th century.
Even the mighty New York City Ballet, whose 57-year-old production of "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" is often held up as the ballet's gold standard, is experimenting with a way to stretch its "Nutcracker" dollars and reach a wider demographic.
In contrast to these companies, New York City Ballet tends to fill its ranks with dancers who studied at its Manhattan-based feeder, the School of American Ballet, which trains dancers to handle the demands of choreography by George Balanchine.
But here, as with a segment called "Riffs on Agon" (which took inspirations of movement and music from Igor Stravinsky's "Agon, " a 1957 ballet by George Balanchine) and with the world premiere of "Orbit" (a composition for solo cello by Philip Glass), Lil Buck looked somewhat constrained held back by efforts based more on set choreography than improvisation.
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