Chautauqua movement: led for the past ten years by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, the summer program at Chautauqua provides up-to-the minute training in a genteel, nineteenth-century setting. (Chautauqua Institution's performing arts and dance studies, Chautauqua, New York) (includes related article on former New York City Ballet principal dancer Violette Verdy's classes for Chautauqua)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: February 1, 1994| Author: Dekle, Nicole | Copyright information

Chautauqua is one of the few ideal artistic retreats when pastoral scenery co-exists every summer with intense ballet dancers trying to improve their technique and advance their style. McBride and Bonnefoux bring their extraordinary experience with the New York City Ballet to the program.

For many vacationers, the Chautauqua Institution, in southwestern New York State, is a retreat where one may summer in tranquillity and languor, enjoying lakeside recreation and a full season of ...

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