George Balanchine Foundation

Popular Balanchine was designed to document the works choreographed by George Balanchine for the popular stage and the movie screen. From 1927-1931, Balanchine staged dances and musical numbers for reviews, variety shows, and operettas in London and Paris as well as creating choreography for Dark red roses, among the first feature-length talking motion pictures made in England. In the United States, from 1936-1954, he worked with Vernon Duke, John Murray Anderson, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, George Abbott, George Gershwin, Joshua Logan, Frederick Loewe, Irving Berlin, John Latouche, Felix Brentano, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, and Harold Arlen - leading figures of American musical theater - to create two reviews, fifteen musical comedies, four operettas, and five Hollywood films. He also collaborated with Igor Stravinsky on the famous Ballet of the elephants for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. To preserve what is possible of this heritage, the George Balanchine Foundation undertook a major research initiative in 1999 focusing on Balanchine's popular entertainment works. Nancy Reynolds, director of research for the Foundation, originated the project and engaged Claude Conyers as project director. The mandate given him was to establish and supervise a team of dance and theater historians to research, assemble, and organize a collection of primary source materials on the subject. The results of this effort, conducted over a period of three years, constitute a unique collection of documents, printed materials, photographs, memorabilia, audio and video recordings, and transcripts of interviews with participants who were a part of a major period in the history of American musical theater.

From the description of Popular Balanchine dossiers, 1927-2004. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 185022168

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