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Balanchine on Broadway Sept 13: 7
Balanchine in Hollywood Sept 20: 7




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Balanchine on Broadway
$12 general public
$10 Film Society members and full-time students
Balanchine in Hollywood
$12 general public
$10 Film Society members and full-time students

The Balanchine centennial celebration spotlights Popular Balanchine, two programs based on a three-year research project by the Balanchine Foundation to document Balanchine's work on Broadway and in Hollywood. Although much has been written about the creation of his ballets, this brief but important phase of his career has been largely undocumented until now. Initiated by dance historian Nancy Reynolds, the foundation's director of research, the project was spearheaded by Claude Conyers, a prize-winning publisher and an editor of scholarly works in the humanities and the arts. A team of prominent dance historians and researchers dug into archives, obtained access to the estates of composers, designers and producers, and interviewed dancers who appeared in some of the shows. Please join us for this two-day show-and-tell extravaganza on September 13th and 20th. Because it is interesting to track the Broadway shows and how they were transformed (or not) when they reached the screen, it is recommended that you think of these Monday nights as a unit. Tickets are available individually, or as a 2-day package.








BALANCHINE ON BROADWAY - SEP 13: 7
Claude Conyers, Balanchine Project director, will offer an overview of what his team of researchers found, as well as cover the stage show Louisiana Purchase, which was eventually transformed to the screen as a vehicle for Bob Hope. Lynn Garafola, best known for her books on Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, will discuss the 1936 production of On Your Toes. Dance historian Sally R. Sommer will analyze Where’s Charley, and Thomas F. DeFrantz, who teaches theater history at MIT, will cover three Broadway productions - Babes in Arms, Cabin in the Sky and House of Flowers, through commentary and rare slides. In many instances, film clips will accompany the presentations.

BALANCHINE IN HOLLYWOOD - SEP 20: 7
Beth Genné will act as host for BALANCHINE IN HOLLYWOOD. Genné, who has a special interest in the Hollywood musical, teaches dance history and art history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For the Popular Balanchine project, she was the principal researcher on Balanchine’s Hollywood work. Using film excerpts, she will show how Balanchine combined classical and popular forms in his dance sequences and how easily he adapted to the new medium of film and its special requirements. Among the films covered will be The Goldwyn Follies, On Your Toes, I Love an Adventuress, Star-Spangled Rhythm and Follow the Boys. Barbara D. Horgan, trustee for the Balanchine Trust, will introduce the program.

The Balanchine program coordinator is Joanna Ney. Grateful thanks to the Howard Gilman Foundation for the continous support of dance programs at the Walter Reade Theater.

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