Timeline of American Ballet in the 20th Century.
From: Dance Magazine
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Date: 6/1/1999
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Author: Garafola, Lynn
By 1900 the classic ballet of Marius Petipa was in crisis. Soon a movement for choreographic reform was underway in Russia. It was led by Michel Fokine, first choreographer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and continued by Vaslav Nijinisky and others. In America it was promoted by the many Russians who toured and settled here after the 1917 revolution. By 1940, when Ballet Theatre gave its first performances, a pool of native talent existed, along with the beginnings of an American ...
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