The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Document(s)
Georgina Parkinson
A Dancer in Her Time / Making the Blueprint
By Bill Bissell
In any dance tradition the living dimension of performance practice inevitably rubs up against fixed notions of so-called "authentic" or "appropriate" interpretations of that tradition. Georgina Parkinson negotiates this collision of interests as part of her work as ballet mistress at American Ballet Theater.
Georgina Parkinson
An interview conducted by Bill Bissell
New York City, June 20, 2004
Patricia Ruanne
A Conversation With a Ballet Répétiteur
An interview conducted by Bill Bissell
Patricia Ruanne is concerned with the abiding aesthetic and ethical values that constitute ballet as an art form. In this world, artistic values are informed by aesthetics as well as ethics. Her impressive record as a dance artist—as performer, coach, ballet mistress, répétiteur—has yielded a remarkable career.
Julie Lincoln, Ballet Répétiteur
Inhabiting the Bodies of Others
By Bill Bissell
In the last thirty years, the deaths of Anthony Tudor, George Balanchine, and Frederick Ashton—choreographers whose works are regarded as touchstones of twentieth-century ballet—have prompted attention toward the methods by which bodies of choreographic work are maintained in the absence of their creators.
