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Kyra Nichols, the Glossary

Kyra Nichols (born July 2, 1958) is an American retired ballet dancer and teacher.^[1]

29 relations: Alan Howard (dancer), Antique Epigraphs, Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, Berkeley, California, Concerto Barocco, George Balanchine, I'm Old Fashioned (ballet), Jacobs School of Music, Jacques d'Amboise (dancer), Jerome Robbins, La Sonnambula (Balanchine), Liebeslieder Walzer (ballet), New York City Ballet, Peter Martins, Philadelphia Ballet, Piano Pieces, Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, School of American Ballet, Serenade (ballet), Susan Stroman, Symphony in C (ballet), The Firebird, The Four Seasons (ballet), The Nutcracker (Balanchine), Twyla Tharp, Vienna Waltzes, Violette Verdy, Walpurgisnacht Ballet, William Forsythe (choreographer).
American ballet teachers

Alan Howard (dancer)

Alan Howard (1931–2003) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher. Kyra Nichols and Alan Howard (dancer) are 20th-century American ballet dancers and dancers from California.

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Antique Epigraphs

Antique Epigraphs is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by ballet master Jerome Robbins to an orchestrated version of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques, L131, for piano, four hands, from 1914.

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Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo

The company Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (with a plural name) was formed in 1932 after the death of Sergei Diaghilev and the demise of Ballets Russes.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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Concerto Barocco

Concerto Barocco is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Bach's Concerto for Two Violins.

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George Balanchine

George Balanchine (Various sources.

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I'm Old Fashioned (The Astaire Variations) is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier.

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Jacobs School of Music

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, is a music conservatory established in 1921.

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Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)

Jacques d'Amboise (born Joseph Jacques Ahearn, July 28, 1934 – May 2, 2021) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and educator. Kyra Nichols and Jacques d'Amboise (dancer) are American ballet teachers, new York City Ballet principal dancers and school of American Ballet alumni.

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Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Kyra Nichols and Jerome Robbins are new York City Ballet principal dancers.

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La Sonnambula (Balanchine)

La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is a ballet by the co-founder and ballet master of New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830–35).

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Liebeslieder Walzer (ballet)

Liebeslieder Walzer is a two-part neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 and Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65, with original sets and lighting designed by David Hays, and costumes designed by Barbara Karinska.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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Peter Martins

Peter Martins (born 27 October 1946) is a Danish former ballet dancer and choreographer. Kyra Nichols and Peter Martins are new York City Ballet principal dancers.

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Philadelphia Ballet

Philadelphia Ballet (formerly known as Pennsylvania Ballet until its rebranding in 2021) is the largest ballet company in Philadelphia.

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Piano Pieces

Piano Pieces is a ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze

Robert Schumann’s “Davidsbündlertänze” is one of the last major works made by New York City Ballet's founding choreographer and balletmaster-in-chief, George Balanchine.

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School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

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Serenade (ballet)

Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op.

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Susan Stroman

Susan P. Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer.

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Symphony in C (ballet)

Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, to Georges Bizet's Symphony in C. The ballet was originally created for the Paris Opera Ballet, and premiered on July 28, 1947 at Théâtre National de l'Opéra.

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The Firebird

The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu; Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

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The Four Seasons (ballet)

The Four Seasons is a ballet choreographed by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani (1855), I Lombardi (1843), and Il Trovatore (1853).

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The Nutcracker (Balanchine)

Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Peptipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States.

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Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City.

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Vienna Waltzes

Vienna Waltzes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss, made as a tribute to Austria.

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Violette Verdy

Violette Verdy (born Nelly Armande Guillerm; 1 December 1933 – 8 February 2016) was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. Kyra Nichols and Violette Verdy are Jacobs School of Music faculty and new York City Ballet principal dancers.

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Walpurgisnacht Ballet

Walpurgisnacht Ballet is a ballet made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine for a 1975 production of Gounod's 1859 Faust at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris, including Gounod's additional ballet music from 1869.

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William Forsythe (choreographer)

William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949) is an American dancer and choreographer formerly resident in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and now based in Vermont.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyra_Nichols