In Balanchine's Classroom...... Donate today! This important work-in-progress depends upon your generous contribution, which is tax-deductible. Contributions earmarked for "In Balanchine's Classroom," can be made by check payable to Dance Films Association (DFA) and mailed to: DFA, 48 West 21st Street, #907, New York, NY 10010 or by credit card by sending money to account: paypal@dancefilms.org by using http://www.Paypal.com For questions, please.contact the director Connie Hochman.. |
.... "There is no more urgent priority at the moment than the documentation of Balanchine's teaching and philosophy by those who worked directly with him. It is good news that such a project - In Balanchine's Classroom - is now underway, in capable hands. I look forward to an outcome which will be of the greatest benefit to future generations." “The concept of Connie Hochman’s project, In Balanchine’s Classroom, is
deeply important and reveals to us what Balanchine clearly understood:
dancers are both the choreographer’s instrument and inspiration,
and their training is inextricably linked
to the act of making dances." “This documentary brings back the joy, the effort, the thrill of learning
from Balanchine. Only the dancers he trained can explain what that was
really like. This captivating and moving film– a monumental historical
record – must be finished and shared with the world.” "In Balanchine's Classroom is a revelation. The vivid stories and memories of how George Balanchine taught and created as recounted by his dancers in this brilliant documentary are priceless parables to be savored and learned from by generations to come." "Whether or not you can know the dancer from the dance, nobody knows the dance as intimately as the dancer, and Connie Hochman's film is about nothing less than the acquisition of the dancer's knowledge -- and of the most profound and beautiful dance knowledge of our time. The interviews with Balanchine's dancers are moving and instructive: vivid and spirited first-hand testimonies to a miracle. And the actual footage of Balanchine giving class -- well, this is gooseflesh stuff. I never dreamed that I would see and hear what Mr. B's students saw and heard. I feel not only enlightened, I feel privileged. I have no doubt that In Balanchine's Classroom will become indispensable to the education of every lover of ballet and every student of modernism."
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