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The Incomparable Mr. B

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Currently, this list includes the choreographer's later years, career retrospectives and critical analyses of his achievements. Soon a more detailed "background check" should uncover more details, so entries will be added as time goes by...

Books

Ashley, Merrill - Dancing for Balanchine; 1984
Balanchine's Ballerinas: Conversations with the Muses; 1983
Buckle, Richard - George Balanchine, Ballet Master: A Biography; 1988
Choreography by George Balanchine; 1984
Dunning, Jennifer - "But first a school": The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet; 1985
Farrell, Suzanne - Holding on to the Air: An Autobiography; 1990
Haggin, B. H. (photos by Martha Swope) - Discovering Balanchine; 1981
Maiorano, Robert - Balanchine's Mozartiana: The Making of a Masterpiece; 1985
Mason, Francis - I Remember Balanchine; 1991
McDonagh, Don - George Balanchine; 1983
Portrait of Mr. B; 1984
Scholl, Tim - From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernization of Ballet; 1994 (London, Routledge)
Shearer, Moira - Balletmaster; 1988
Taper, Bernard - Balanchine: A Biography (rev., updated); 1974
Volkov, Solomon - Balanchine's Tchaikovsky; 1985

Articles

Acocella, Joan - "Balanchine in Boston"
Connoisseur, April 1991, p. 19

Acocella, Joan - "Balanchine's last princess (Darci Kistler)"
Connoisseur, June 1989, p. 104

Ailey, Alvin - "What Ailey thought of Balanchine"
The New York Times, February 12, 1995, p. H26

Aloff, Mindy - "The company he kept"
The New Republic, August 1, 1994, p. 31

Anderson, Jack - "Gallery tries to capture Balanchine's many sides"
The New York Times, December 19, 1992, p. 13

Anderson, Jack - "The Kirov Ballet keeps turning towards the West"
The New York Times, June 21, 1992, p. H8

Archer, Kenneth and M. Hodson - "In search of Balanchine's 'La Chatte'"
Dance Magazine, May 1991, p. 42

Barnes, Clive - "Life after Balanchine"
Dance Magazine, February 1993, p. 130

Barnes, Clive - "The loss of Broadway choreographers"
Dance Magazine, June 1990, p. 98

Croce, Arlene - "The magician"
The New Yorker, January 18, 1988, p. 77

Croce, Arlene - "The spelling of Agon"
The New Yorker, July 12, 1993, p. 84

Dunning, Jennifer - "Why Balanchine rarities remain relics"
The New York Times, April 12, 1992, p. H24

Flatlow, Sheryl - "The Balanchine trust"
Dance Magazine, December 1990, p. 58

Garafola, Lynn - "Ten years after: Peter Martins on preserving Balanchine's legacy"
Dance Magazine, May 1993, p. 38

"George Balanchine: The Russian who made ballet defect to America"
Life, Fall 1990, p. 23

Gruen, John - "A teacher to the corps (Rosemary Dunleavy)"
Dance Magazine, May 1993, p. 34

Hamilton, David and P. J. Smith - "La Traviata"
Opera News, December 8, 1990, p. 36

Harris, Dale - "Dance: Balanchine redux"
The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 1993, p. A8

Hunt, Marilyn - "Balanchine's democratic artistry"
Dance Magazine, May 1993, p. 43

Hunt, Marilyn - "Dancing on Hope Street: The NYCB in Glasgow"
Dance Magazine, December 1989, p. 40

Jacobs, Laura - "A. Mr. B."
The Atlantic, May 1993, p. 113

Jacobs, Laura - "Mozart at the ballet"
The New Leader, April 16, 1990, p. 22

Kisselgoff, Anna - "Choreographers learn anew..."
The New York Times, June 26, 1994, p. H25

Kisselgoff, Anna - "For Balanchine... (Yelizaveta Gerdt)"
The New York Times, October 10, 1993, p. H10

Krementz, Jill - "The keeper of the Balanchine flame (Rosemary Dunleavy)"
The New York Times, September 13, 1992, p. H35

Macaulay, Alastair - "Forty years on"
The New Yorker, May 30, 1988, p. 89

Mazo, Joseph - "Art not art?"
Dance Magazine, September 1991, p. 62

Mazo, Joseph - "Reynolds endows Balanchine Foundation"
Dance Magazine, December 1994, p. 19

"The red shoes dance modern"
US News & World Report, February 27, 1989, p. 16

Reynolds, Nancy - "Cultural revelation: In 1962 George Balanchine returned to the Soviet Union..."
Dance Magazine, January 1994, p. 88

Taper, Bernard - "A festival for Mr. B"
The New Yorker, May 10, 1993, p. 74

Tobias, Tobi - "Lost horizon"
New York, July 19, 1993, p. 52

Tobias, Tobi - "The man who loved women"
New York, June 21, 1993, p. 69

Ullman, Martha - "Francia Russell: holding Balanchine's torch..."
Dance Magazine, September 1994, p. 54

Villella, Edward - "Remembering Balanchine as the boss"
The New York Times, January 26, 1992, p. H6

Watts, Heather - "Workshop 25: those championship seasons"
Dance Magazine, May 1989, p. 38

Also: "Dancing for Mr. B" was reviewed in the October 18th edition of Variety in 1989, and "Davidsbundlertanze" was reviewed in Town & Country Monthly for December, 1988. John J. O'Connor wrote about the "Dance In America" PBS serie s in the December 24, 1993 issue of The New York Times, p. B2.

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