For instance, he was active with the New York City Ballet, chairing its junior fundraising committee, then sitting on its board.
During her career, Bussell has also performed with the New York City Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Australian Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet.
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With its current winter season, New York City Ballet continues to create thematic programs out of its extensive repertory of mostly one-act ballets.
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The next year, the couple moved to New York City, where she became a prima ballerina with what would become the New York City Ballet.
Earlier this year, New York City Ballet invited the Brooklyn-based art collective Faile to erect a tower of comic book-style drawings in the theater's elegant promenade.
Nor does it have to be showy: I once saw a New York City Ballet audience burst into applause when a ballerina lifted her leg into a flawless arabesque.
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Ms. Tallchief remained with the New York City Ballet for 18 years, and after her retirement in 1965, she became the artistic director of the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet.
Located just south of Carnegie Hall, on West Fifty-fifth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, City Center is the original home of New York City Opera and New York City Ballet.
Kostritzky burnished her reputation for having a gift with children at the School of American Ballet, the in-house school for the New York City Ballet, where she taught more than 300 students in 18 years.
The company will host a special Sandy fundraiser on Feb. 26, "Fall and Recovery, " featuring stars from other corners of the dance world, including New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan and American Ballet Theatre's Irina Dvorovenko.
Even the mighty New York City Ballet, whose 57-year-old production of "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" is often held up as the ballet's gold standard, is experimenting with a way to stretch its "Nutcracker" dollars and reach a wider demographic.
In contrast to these companies, New York City Ballet tends to fill its ranks with dancers who studied at its Manhattan-based feeder, the School of American Ballet, which trains dancers to handle the demands of choreography by George Balanchine.
In a more obscure image by Penn of Tai Chi master Da Liu instructing 80 year old Bertie Donnelly and New York City Ballet dancer Suki Schorer, author Joan Didion recalls coming of age as an assistant editor at Vogue.
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