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Balanchine's apprentice : from Hollywood to New York and back / John Clifford.

"A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacher In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine's Apprentice is the s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Clifford, John, 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021.
Subjects:
Clifford, John, > 1947-
Dancers > United States > Biography.
Choreographers > United States > Biography.
Choreographers.
Dancers.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Meeting "Mr. B."
  • Eugene Loring's American School of Dance
  • Balanchine's ballet of Los Angeles and the Danny Kaye Show
  • School of American Ballet (part 1) : my first trip to New York
  • Back to Los Angeles : Sir Anton Dolin ; "Western Ballet" ; Maya Plisetskaya and the Bolshoi Ballet
  • Guatemala ; Variations for four ; London
  • School of American Ballet (part 2) : choreography and teachers Stanley Williams, André Eglevsky, and Pierre Vladimiroff
  • School of American Ballet (part 3) : New York City Ballet and its ballerinas
  • My first Balanchine class and entry into the New York City Ballet
  • New York City Ballet corps ; Piano lessons ; Paul and Suzanne
  • Balanchine at work : jewels ; My first NYC reviews ; More classes and the kiss
  • Balanchine's last seminar on teaching
  • My first principal role, Valse fantaisie : the SAB workshop goes public
  • More solos and Peter Martins's début
  • Jacques d'Amboise and Edward Villella : technique and personality
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and that "Greek" ballet
  • Age 20 : my first ballet for New York City Ballet
  • Teaching at SAB : Gelsey Kirkland as student ; The Bolshoi Ballet in NYC
  • Fantasies : Mr. B.'s suit ; More classes ; In-a-gadda-da-vida
  • Dances at a gathering : the return of Jerome Robbins
  • The 1969 spring gala preview : Dances at a gathering and Prelude, fugue, and riffs ; Suzanne Farrell resigns!
  • Monte Carlo and Rubies
  • Teaching at SAB : Gelsey Kirkland's rise ; Reveries, my fourth ballet for NYCB at 22
  • Gelsey Kirkland and Maggie Black
  • Allegra Kent
  • "Coach" Balanchine
  • Balanchine's tastes
  • Stars and stripes...and "panache!"
  • The Goldberg variations rehearsals ; PAMTGG 185
  • Choreographing elsewhere : San Francisco and Royal Winnipeg ballets
  • Berlin : Irina Kolpakova and Yuri Soloviev...and perhaps my own company!
  • The 1972 Stravinsky Festival : Balanchine triumphant!
  • The 1972 Soviet tour : Kiev, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Moscow
  • Back in New York : The Berlin films
  • The formation of my Los Angeles ballet ("Baby steps")
  • The Paris Opera Ballet
  • Coppélia, Variations pour une porte et un soupir, The steadfast tin soldier, the New York Philharmonic Promenades, and my aborted Broadway début
  • The Los Angeles Ballet
  • A "guest artist" with the New York City Ballet
  • The end of my company, the death of Balanchine, and the end of an era
  • Epilogue.

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