Balanchine’s School and tradition

Abstract

Introducing the author with J. Balachin occurred in 1962 at the Kirov Ballet tour in America. Later Balanchine arrived in Leningrad with the company and gave a demonstration lesson in School. Extremely worried. The lesson was very quick, agile, comments almost was not. Differences with our present school were, but not as much, mainly concerned the hands and body. Then more I met with choreography by Balanchine as a performer on the creative evenings N. Dudinskaja, dancing alternately Adagio and Scherzo in Bizet’s Symphony with M. Baryshnikov, V. Gulyaev, V. Afanaskov. I visited schools Balanchine after the death of the Master. Its traditions kept carefully.