Event Title
Balanchine
Location
CSU 204
Start Date
25-4-2005 3:15 PM
End Date
25-4-2005 5:00 PM
Student's Major
Theatre and Dance
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Julie Kerr-Berry
Mentor's Department
Theatre and Dance
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
Balanchine aesthetic had a defined method of training. He saw each of his dancers as material to be shaped and molded. He began this process through his training. When Maria Tallchief began to dance with Balanchine she noticed her "whole shape and figure completely changing". (Belle, 1989, video) Balanchine was "very careful about how you used your hands...how they moved. Maria Tallchief a ballet instructor for the School of Chicago Ballet choreographs every work taught to her by Balanchine through the movement memory, exactly how he taught it to her. It is through these dancers and others that the Balanchine aesthetic lives on.
Balanchine
CSU 204
Balanchine aesthetic had a defined method of training. He saw each of his dancers as material to be shaped and molded. He began this process through his training. When Maria Tallchief began to dance with Balanchine she noticed her "whole shape and figure completely changing". (Belle, 1989, video) Balanchine was "very careful about how you used your hands...how they moved. Maria Tallchief a ballet instructor for the School of Chicago Ballet choreographs every work taught to her by Balanchine through the movement memory, exactly how he taught it to her. It is through these dancers and others that the Balanchine aesthetic lives on.
Recommended Citation
Braam, Melanie. "Balanchine." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 25, 2005.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2005/oral-session-H/4
