Where did the woman who ran the Buffalo Ballet Theater from 1967 begin her career?
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Buffalo Ballet Theater The Buffalo Ballet Theater is a Ballet company in Buffalo, New York, USA. It was founded by the dancer and choreographer Barry Leon. Bronislava Nijinska led the Buffalo Ballet Theater from 1967.
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Bronislava Nijinska Bronislava Nijinska (Polish: "Bronisława Niżyńska" ; Russian: Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская , "Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya", Belarusian: Браніслава Ніжынская ); (January 8, 1891 [O.S. December 27, 1890] — February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, an innovative choreographer, and a teacher. She came from a family of professional dancers. Her career started in Russia, moved to France, then continued in Europe and the Americas.
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Blanche Thebom Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1915March 23, 2010) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. She was part of the first wave of American opera singers that had highly successful international careers. In her own country she had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City which lasted 22 years. "Opera News" stated, "An ambitious beauty with a velvety, even-grained dramatic mezzo, Thebom was a natural for opera: she commanded the stage with the elegantly disciplined hauteur of an old-school diva, relishing the opportunity to play "femmes du monde" such as Marina in "Boris Godunov", Herodias and Dalila."
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Barbara Yeager Barbara Yeager (born September 25, 1958) is an American stage and film actress and dancer. Her Broadway career has included work with such notable artists as Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins. On Broadway, she was in productions of "Jerome Robbins' Broadway", "Anything Goes", "Big Deal", "Leader of the Pack" and "Dancin'". Yeager currently focuses on ballroom and Latin dance choreography and instruction. She resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Mia Slavenska Mia Slavenska (February 20, 1916 in Slavonski Brod – October 5, 2002 in Los Angeles), birth name Mia Čorak, was a Croatian-born American prima ballerina. She formed the "Slavenska Ballette Variante" and, later, the "Theatre Ballette". In 1954, she became the prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
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Swan Lake (Martins) Swan Lake is a two-act ballet made by New York City Ballet (NYCB) ballet master in chief Peter Martins (after Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and George Balanchine) to Tschaikovsky's eponymous music (1875–56). The premiere took place 27 October 1996, with the Royal Danish Ballet at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen; the NYCB premiere was 29 April 1999 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. Peter Martins' wife, NYCB principal dancer Darci Kistler, chose to include the final act of "Swan Lake" in her farewell performance, Sunday, 27 June.
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Elena Lev Elena Lev, born in Moscow, Russia in 1981, began her training to become a rhythmic gymnast at an early age, assisted and coached by her mother, Elena Lev Sr. She developed a signature hula hoop act incorporating gymnastics and contortion. Her big breakthrough came when she was invited to join the "Alegría" touring troupe of Cirque du Soleil, of which she was a member from 1994 through 2000. She also performed briefly with the "Quidam" troupe in 2002. Lev performed with Cirque du Soleil's "Wintuk" at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Carlotta Grisi Carlotta Grisi (born Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi; 28 June 1819 – 20 May 1899) was an Italian ballet dancer. Born in Visinada, Istria (present-day Vižinada, Croatia), she was trained at the ballet school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and later with dancer/balletmaster Jules Perrot. She was especially noted for her performance in the classic role of "Giselle".
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Twentieth Century Club (Buffalo, New York) The Twentieth Century Club is a women's social club founded in the late 19th century in Buffalo, New York. It is located at 595 Delaware Avenue, in the Delaware District neighborhood. It was the first club run by women, for women, in the United States.
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Lauren Flanigan Lauren Flanigan (born May 18, 1959) is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1980s. She enjoyed a particularly fruitful partnership with the New York City Opera, appearing with the company almost every year since 1990. She has sung more than 100 different opera roles on stage during her career, often appearing in contemporary works or more rarely staged operas. "Opera News" stated that, "Flanigan has enjoyed one of the most distinctive careers of any artist of her generation, one marked by a high volume of contemporary works. Modern composers love her because of her innate musicality, dramatic power and lightning-fast skills and instincts."
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Kansas City Ballet The Kansas City Ballet is a 30-member professional ballet company in Kansas City, Kansas founded in 1957. It performs at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and rehearses in the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity. The professional company as well as the Kansas City Ballet Second Company (comprising KCB II and trainees) and the Kansas City Ballet School all operate on a day-to-day basis within this rehearsal and performance complex. The current Artistic Director is Devon Carney and Executive Director is Jeffrey J. Bentley.
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Joyce Cuoco Joyce Cuoco is an American former ballerina. She came to great acclaim at a young age, particularly for her ability to sustain long balances and her multiple pirouettes. Cuoco's early training was with Harriet Hoctor and Boston Ballet founder, E. Virginia Williams. She quickly rose to great popular success as a "baby ballerina". She appeared on the Ed Sullivan and Danny Kaye TV shows in 1966 and later headlined at Radio City Music Hall. In every appearance she would charm the audience with her smile and her astonishing dancing.
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Regina Resnik Regina Resnik (August 30, 1922 – August 8, 2013) was an American opera singer who had an active international career that spanned five decades. She began her career as a soprano in 1942 and soon after began a lengthy and fruitful relationship with the Metropolitan Opera that spanned from 1944 until 1983. Under the advice of conductor Clemens Krauss, she began retraining her voice in the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1953 and by 1956 had completely removed soprano literature from her performance repertoire.
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Bella Ratchinskaia Bella Ratchinskaia (born in Vorkuta (Russia) on 22.11.1953) is a classical ballet choreographer and maÎtre de ballet. She attended and graduated with honours at the State Academy of Ballet in Perm. After her studies, she joined the USSR "All-Union Contest" for young dancers and moved to Leningrad (San Petersburg) where she started a classical dance career at the Theatre. In 1972 she began to work as a principal dancer in the company "Choreographical Miniatures" directed by Leonid Yakobson, she performed all roles of the classical repertory and Yakobson's own choreographical creations. She enjoyed critical acclaim during international tours for her interpretation of these roles.
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Barbara Loden Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was a Tony-award-winning American stage and film actress as well as a director of off-Broadway theater and a critically acclaimed feature film. Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus-line dancer. She became a regular sidekick on the irreverent "Ernie Kovacs Television Show" and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including "Splendor in the Grass". She wrote, directed, and starred in "Wanda", a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival.
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Albert Evans (dancer) Albert Pierce Evans (December 29, 1968 – June 22, 2015) was an American ballet dancer. He began his ballet training at Terpsichore Expressions in his native Atlanta and was awarded a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet in 1986.
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Carla Fracci Carla Fracci (] ; born 20 August 1936, Milan) is an Italian ballet dancer and actress. Thanks to her extensive career and her acclaimed interpretation of several classical romantic ballets such as "La Sylphide", Fracci became one of the most experienced and recognized interpreters of Romantic ballets. “As Erik Bruhn once said, [Fracci] gave the world a new idea of the ballerina in 19th-century Romantic ballets.” Her career highlights include "Nijinsky", "Giselle" (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.
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Robert Weiss (choreographer) Robert Weiss is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet. He began his professional career at age 17 joining the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine, eventually becoming a Principal Dancer. Balanchine created several roles for him, including Ballo della Regina. Weiss remained with the New York City Ballet for 16 years. He later served as Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet from 1982 to 1990. Weiss then became the founding Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet in 1997 where he has remained to this day.
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F.W. Caulkins Franklin Wellington Caulkins (April 28, 1855 – January 9, 1940) was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York. Between 1876 and 1881, early female professional architect Louise Blanchard Bethune worked in his office and for Richard A. Waite.
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Ballet Minnesota Ballet Minnesota is a classical dance company in Minnesota, United States. Located in Saint Paul in the Arts Section of Lowertown, it has served Minneapolis-St. Paul and Minnesota for 20 years. Founded by Andrew and Cheryl Rist, its stated mission is to be "dedicated to creating and sharing artistry in dance through public presentations and education."
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Anna Ludmilla Anna Ludmilla (born Jean Marie Kaley January 12, 1903 Chicago - died April 18, 1990 Houston) was a ballet dancer based in Chicago, New York City, and then France. She toured widely before injuring her leg in 1930 and after that focused on ballroom dancing and teaching. During her career, she performed for the Chicago Opera Ballet in the Chicago Opera Association, later known as Chicago Civic Opera Company, on Broadway in New York City, and in film. As a teacher she moved with her husband to Panama where she headed the ballet division of a new National School of Dance.
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Buffalo Theatre District The Buffalo Theatre District in downtown Buffalo, New York is the center of Buffalo's theater scene that draws Broadway shows that are in preview stage or on tour and is bounded roughly by Washington, Tupper, Pearl and Chippewa Streets. Architect and Professor Alfred Price worked on a master plan for the Buffalo Theatre District.