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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clifford, John, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York City Ballet.

Ballet dancers--United States--Biography.

Ballet dancers.

History.

United States.

Television actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Television actors and actresses.

Clifford, John, 1947-.

Clifford, John.

Balanchine, George.

New York City Ballet--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 308 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2021].

Summary:

The memoir of dancer and choreographer John Clifford. Offers a unique look at the New York City Ballet and creative mastermind George Balanchine.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I

1. Meeting "Mr. B."

2. Eugene Loring's American School of Dance

3. Balanchine's Ballet of Los Angeles and The Danny Kaye Show

4. School of American Ballet (Part 1): My First Trip to New York

5. Back to Los Angeles: Sir Anton Dolin

"Western Ballet"

Maya Plisetskaya and the Bolshoi Ballet

6. Guatemala

Variations for Four

London

PART II

7. School of American Ballet (Part 2): Choreography and Teachers Stanley Williams, Andre Eglevsky, and Pierre Vladimiroff

8. School of American Ballet (Part 3): New York City Ballet and Its Ballerinas

9. My First Balanchine Class and Entry into the New York City Ballet

10. New York City Ballet Corps

Piano Lessons

Paul and Suzanne

11. Balanchine at Work: Jewels

My First NYC Reviews

More Classes and the Kiss

12. Balanchine's Last Seminar on Teaching

13. My First Principal Role, Valse Fantaisie: The SAB Workshop Goes Public

14. More Solos and Peter Martins's Debut

15. Jacques d'Amboise and Edward Villella: Technique and Personality

16. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and That "Greek" Ballet

17. Age 20: My First Ballet for New York City Ballet

18. Teaching at SAB: Gelsey Kirkland as Student

The Bolshoi Ballet in NYC no

19. Fantasies: Mr. B.'s Suit

More Classes

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

20. Dances at a Gathering: The Return of Jerome Robbins

21. The 1969 Spring Gala Preview: Dances at a Gathering and Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs

Suzanne Farrell Resigns!

22. Monte Carlo and Rubies

23. Teaching at SAB: Gelsey Kirkland's Rise

Reveries, My Fourth Ballet for NYCB at 22

24. Gelsey Kirkland and Maggie Black

25. Allegra Kent

26. "Coach" Balanchine

27. Balanchine's Tastes

28. Stars and Stripes and "Panache!"

29. The Goldberg Variations Rehearsals

PAMTGG

30. Choreographing Elsewhere: San Francisco and Royal Winnipeg Ballets

31. Berlin: Irina Kolpakova and Yuri Soloviev and Perhaps My Own Company!

32. The 1972 Stravinsky Festival: Balanchine Triumphant!

33. The 1972 Soviet Tour: Kiev

St. Petersburg

Tbilisi

Moscow

34. Back in New York: The Berlin Films

PART III

35. The Formation of My Los Angeles Ballet ("Baby Steps")

36. The Paris Opera Ballet

37. Coppelia, Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the New York Philharmonic Promenades, and My Aborted Broadway Debut

38. The Los Angeles Ballet

39. A "Guest Artist" with the New York City Ballet

PART IV

40. The End of My Company, the Death of Balanchine, and the End of an Era.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780813069005

0813069009

OCLC:

1237350608

Publisher Number:

99988508695