Albert Evans (dancer)
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Albert Evans began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet
in 1986. He joined New York City Ballet
's corps de ballet in 1988 and was immediately given leading roles in William Forsythe
's Behind The China Dogs and Eliot Feld
's The Unanswered Question
at City Ballet's American Music Festival.
Evans was promoted to soloist
in 1991 and to principal
in 1995. Evans' farewell performance took place Sunday, June 20th, 2010, and consisted of ballets by Balanchine
, Forsythe
and Miroshnichenko:
School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...
in 1986. He joined New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
's corps de ballet in 1988 and was immediately given leading roles in William Forsythe
William Forsythe (dancer)
William Forsythe is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company...
's Behind The China Dogs and Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer and director.-Life and career:Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Alice , a travel agent, and Benjamin Noah Feld, an attorney...
's The Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question is a work by American composer Charles Ives. It was originally the first of "Two Contemplations" composed in 1906, paired with another piece called Central Park in the Dark. As with many of Ives' works, it was largely unknown until much later in his life, being first...
at City Ballet's American Music Festival.
Evans was promoted to soloist
Soloist (ballet)
In ballet, a soloist is a dancer in a ballet company above the corps de ballet but below principal dancer....
in 1991 and to principal
Principal dancer
A principal dancer is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company....
in 1995. Evans' farewell performance took place Sunday, June 20th, 2010, and consisted of ballets by Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
, Forsythe
William Forsythe (dancer)
William Forsythe is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company...
and Miroshnichenko:
- La sourceLa source (Balanchine)La Source is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by its founding balletmaster George Balanchine. The premiere took place on November 23, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center....
- Herman Schmerman pas de deux
- The Lady with The Little Dog
- The Four TemperamentsThe Four Temperaments (ballet)The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate forerunner of City Ballet...
George Balanchine
- AgonAgon (ballet)Agon is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. Composition began in December 1953 and concluded in April 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957 in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was...
- Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
- Concerto BaroccoConcerto BaroccoConcerto Barocco is a ballet made on students at the School of American Ballet by George Balanchine, subsequently balletmaster and co-founder of New York City Ballet, to Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043...
- Cortège Hongrois
- Danses Concertantes
- EpisodesEpisodes (ballet)Episodes is a two-part ballet made by Martha Graham and George Balanchine to Anton von Webern's Symphony, Op. 21; Five Pieces, Op. 10; Concerto, Op. 24; and the Ricercata in Six Voices from Bach's Musical Offering which Webern had arranged in homage to Bach as Balanchine conceived the ballet as...
- The Four TemperamentsThe Four Temperaments (ballet)The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate forerunner of City Ballet...
- The NutcrackerThe NutcrackerThe Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
Cavalier - A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet)A Midsummer Night's Dream is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name. In addition to the incidental music, Balanchine incorporated other Mendelssohn works into the ballet including Overtures to Athalie, Son...
Puck
- Monumentum pro GesualdoMonumentum pro GesualdoMonumentum pro Gesualdo is a ballet by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music by Igor Stravinsky composed in honor of the 400th birthday of Don Carlo Gesualdo and consisting of Stravinsky's orchestrations of Don Carlo's madrigals...
- Movements for Piano and Orchestra
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto
- Symphony in CSymphony in C (ballet)Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Bizet's Symphony in C , which he wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory...
- Symphony in Three MovementsSymphony in Three MovementsSymphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
- Union JackUnion Jack (ballet)Union Jack is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to traditional British tunes, hornpipe melodies and music-hall songs, ca...
- Western SymphonyWestern SymphonyWestern Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to music arranged by Hershy Kay. The premiere, Tuesday, September 7th, 1954, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, was conducted by Leon Barzin and presented in practice clothes...
- Who Cares?Who Cares? (ballet)Who Cares? is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to the songs of George Gershwin in an orchestration by Hershy Kay...
Jerome Robbins
- Gershwin Concerto
- The Goldberg VariationsThe Goldberg Variations (ballet)The Goldberg Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's ballet master Jerome Robbins to Johann Sebastian Bach's eponymous music from 1742, BWV 988, his only work in the form of theme and variations; the theme is a sarabande he wrote for his second wife...
Peter Martins
- AshAsh (ballet)Ash is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Ash by Michael Torke. The premiere took place Thursday, June 20th, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
- Ecstatic OrangeEcstatic OrangeEcstatic Orange is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Peter Martins to Michael Torke's Verdant Music , Purple and Ecstatic Orange for City Ballet's American Music Festival; the second movement, Purple, was to a score commissioned for the occasion...
- Fearful Symmetries
- Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements)
- Jeu de cartesJeu de CartesJeu de cartes can refer to either of two ballets, both to Stravinsky's eponymous music from 1936:* Jeu de cartes , made by George Balanchine on his American Ballet and danced fourteen years later by New York City Ballet...
- Les GentilhommesLes GentilhommesLes Gentilhommes is a ballet for nine men made by New York City Ballet's balletmaster-in-chief Peter Martins to Georg Friedrich Händel's 1739 Concerti Grossi, Opus 6, nos. 9 and 2...
- Reliquary
- The Sleeping Beauty Puss in Boots
- Slonimsky's Earbox
- Swan LakeSwan Lake (Martins)Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music...
Von Rotbart, Hungarian, and Russian - Todo Buenos Aires
Christopher Wheeldon
- Klavier
- LiturgyLiturgy (ballet)Liturgy is a ballet made by New York City Ballet resident choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to music by Arvo Pärt. The premiere took place May 31, 2003 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center...
- Polyphonia
Ulysses Dove
- Red Angels
- Twilight
Miriam Mahdaviani
- Appalachia WaltzAppalachia WaltzAppalachia Waltz is the first album from the trio of fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor, double-bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Sony Classical released the disc in 1996. The album announces a new kind of Americana-styled Western art music, with ancestry in old-timey,...
- CorrelazioneCorrelazioneCorrelazione is a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project II to Corelli's Concerto Grosso, Op. 6: No. 1 in D, No. 3 in C Minor, No. 8 in G Minor , and "La Follia" Sonata for Violin in D minor, Op. 5, No. 12...
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2D9153BF935A2575BC0A961948260&scp=4&sq=%22albert+evans%22+new+york+city+ballet&st=nytNY Times article by Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, August 16, 1987] - NY Times article by Anna Kisselgoff, June 8, 1987
- Critical Dance review by Kate Snedeker, June 20, 2003
- press release, Balanchine Foundation, August 14, 2003
- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/arts/dance/19laro.htmlNY Times article by Claudia La RoccoClaudia La RoccoClaudia La Rocco is a dance critic for the New York Times. She began her career as a general arts writer for the Associated Press,- External links : * ** * **...
, November 19, 2006]
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/arts/dance/17nycb.htmlNY Times review by Alastair MacaulayAlastair MacaulayAlastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
, May 17, 2007] - The Arts et al. interview, November 12, 2007
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/arts/dance/12ball.html?scp=3&sq=%22albert+evans%22&st=nytNY Times review by Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, January 12, 2008] - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/dance/19bala.html?scp=2&sq=%22albert+evans%22&st=nytNY Times review by Alastair MacaulayAlastair MacaulayAlastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
, January 19, 2008] - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/arts/dance/28spri.html?scp=1&sq=%22albert+evans%22&st=nytNY Times review by Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, January 28, 2008]