Italy / United States / Soviet Union / United Kingdom / Denmark / /
Event
Employment Change / /
Facility
Metropolitan Museum of Art / America’s museum / Opera Ballet / City College / Center Theatre / /
NaturalFeature
Swan Lake / /
Organization
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School / Mordkin Ballet / Dance Heritage Coalition / Paris Opera Ballet / Department of State / City College / National Endowment for the Arts / /
Person
Gaite Parisienne / Diana Adams / Erik Bruhn / Mikhail Mordkin / Anton Dolin / Oliver Smith / Karen Conrad / Aaron Copland / Birgit Culberg / David Blair / Darius Milhaud / Sol Hurok / Edward Caton / William Dollar / Alicia Alonso / Jerome Robbins / Nora Kaye / Ulysses Dove / George Balanchine / Kevin McKenzie / Donald Saddler / Herbert Ross / Giselle Lake / Mikhail Baryshnikov / Antony Tudor / Carlos Costas / Annabelle Lyon / Black Ritual (Obeah) / Anna Pavlova / Alexei Ratmansky / Adolph Bolm / Hugh Laing / José Limón / Fernando Bujones / Eliot Feld / Carla Fracci / Marie Rambert / Agnes de Mille / Mark Morris / Lucia Chase / Lilac Garden / Melissa Hayden / Nina Stroganova / Merce Cunningham / Rudolph Orthwine / John Kriza / Alvin Ailey / David Gordon / Natalia Makarova / Paul Taylor / Dawn Lille / Bronislava Nijinska / Patricia Bowman / Sevastianov / Twyla Tharp / Richard Pleasant / Sallie Wilson / Jane Herman / Toni Lander / Charles Payne / Swan Lake / Eugene Loring / Vladimir Dokoudovsky / /
Position
artistic administrator / president / architect / leading dancer / co-director / dancer / performer and rehearsal coach / director of the troupe / first choreographer / designer / director / choreographer / managing director / booking agent / artistic director / music director / /
American Ballet Theatre by Dawn Lille American Ballet Theatre (ABT) was born in 1940 as Ballet Theatre (the “American” was added in 1957), the artistic child of Richard Pleasant, who envisaged it as America’s museu