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References. Iris Hensley. Iris Hensley (1934–2003) founded The Georgia Ballet (originally named the Cobb/Marietta Ballet) in 1960 and served as the Artistic Director until her death in August 2003. [ 1 ] In addition to directing The Georgia Ballet and teaching at The Georgia Ballet School (The Georgia Ballet's associated ballet school), [ 2 ...
Atlanta Ballet was founded in 1929 by Dorothy Alexander as the Dorothy Alexander Concert Group. [2] During the 1940s, the organization was known as the Atlanta Civic Ballet, [3] with Dorothy Alexander acting as Director. It was the nation's first regional ballet company. In 1946, the company became the first in the nation to help fund a ...
Designated ALB. October 23, 1989. The Fox Theatre (often marketed as the Fabulous Fox ), a former movie palace, is a performing arts venue located at 660 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, and is the centerpiece of the Fox Theatre Historic District . The theater was originally planned as part of a large Shrine Temple as evidenced ...
The Nutcracker(Russian: Щелкунчик[a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced[ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk]ⓘ), Op.71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eveat the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's ...
Atlanta Festival Ballet. The Atlanta Festival Ballet Company is composed of ten professional dancers and student apprentices who have dedicated themselves to the discipline of dance performance. The Company began as the vision of Co-Artistic Director [1] Gregory Aaron, and made its debut on November 4, 1989, in a full length performance of ...
Gwinnett Ballet Theatre. Gwinnett Ballet Theatre is a nonprofit dance organization and school located in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia ( Atlanta vicinity). The artistic director is Wade Walthall, and the music director and conductor is Predrag Gosta. The founding director is Lynne Snipes.
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
A ballet company in Georgia was devastated after it discovered $20,000 worth of “The Nutcracker” props had been stolen from its studio. The Northeast Atlanta Ballet company in Lilburn was ...