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.

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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