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Oncoming boat indicating its port (red) and starboard (green) sides The term starboard derives from the Old English steorbord , meaning the side on which the ship is steered. Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered with a steering oar at the stern of the ship on the right hand side of the ship, because more people are ...
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company.
The 79th Street Boat Basin is a marina located in the Hudson River on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, within Riverside Park at the western end of 79th Street. Maintained and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation , it is the only facility in the city that allows year-round residency in boats, so it ...
Villella became a member of the New York City Ballet in 1957, rising to soloist in 1958 and principal dancer in 1960, last dancing there in 1979. [4]: 179 Among his most noteworthy [5] performances were Oberon in George Balanchine's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream (with music by Felix Mendelssohn), Tarantella, Rubies in the Balanchine ballet Jewels, and Prodigal Son.
Watts retired from the stage in a gala performance at Lincoln Center in 1995. She married fellow New York City Ballet Principal Damian Woetzel in 1999. In addition to her dancing career, Watts was director of the New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs from 1982 to 1994, where she administered a ballet school for gifted ...
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Serenade (ballet) The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté) Simple Symphony (ballet) Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; Slice to Sharp; Sonate di Scarlatti; Sonatine (ballet) La Sonnambula (Balanchine) La Source (Balanchine) Square Dance (ballet) Stars and Stripes (ballet) The Steadfast Tin Soldier (ballet) Stravinsky Violin Concerto (ballet) Suite of ...
He also danced as guest artist with The Boston Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and the New York City Ballet. While in Australia Meehan's teachers included Patricia MacDonald, Martin Rubinstein, Vera Volkova, Dame Margaret Scott and Dame Peggy Van Praagh and in New York, Maggie Black, David Howard and Stanley Williams.