Touch (ballet)
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Touch is a ballet made by David Parsons on the New York City Ballet
to music by Richard Peaslee
. The premiere took place February 15th, 1996, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
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New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
to music by Richard Peaslee
Richard Peaslee
-London:*the Peter Brook / Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, US and Antony and Cleopatra;*Peter Hall / National Theatre Animal Farm;*Terry Hands / RSC Tamburlaine the Great;...
. The premiere took place February 15th, 1996, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
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Original cast
- Stacey Calvert
- Michele Gifford
- Monique Meunier
- Teresa Reyes
- Albert EvansAlbert Evans (dancer)Albert Evans 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...
- Tom Gold
- Edwaard LiangEdwaard LiangEdwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
- Damian WoetzelDamian WoetzelDamian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...
Articles and reviews
- NY Times article by Anna Kisselgoff, March 3rd, 1996
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5DD1239F936A15755C0A960958260NY Times review by Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, June 25th, 1996]