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Article: Jewels.(Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Cincinnati Ballet has danced a dozen Balanchine ballets over the years, but it has never been a Balanchine-based company. It's a modest midsized troupe with what used to be called an eclectic repertoire, dealing with survival in economically pressing times. So when the evening-length Jewels was programmed as the 1996-97 season opener, it raised a few eyebrows.
The idea belonged to Peter Anastos, an eloquent champion of Balanchine and the artistic director at the time. Although Anastos later resigned, he stayed on to oversee this grand undertaking. Because of a large turnover last spring, nearly half the forty-four-member cast, including seven young dancers hired ...
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Article: PBS wears George Balanchine's 'Jewels' on Monday: ...
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August 26, 2006 ;
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... ... lights up a production of George Balanchine's Jewels, airing at 10 p.m. Monday ... contemporary work, which George Balanchine created for his New York City ... up. Barbara Horgan of the Balanchine Trust is an erudite commentator ...
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