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- Harkness_Ballet abstract "The Harkness Ballet (1964-1975) was a New York ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Ms Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings and was a dance lover. Ms Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet, but when they refused to rename the company in her honour, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffery dancers for her new company. Joffery Ballet later moved to Chicago, and continues to function. Harkness Ballet, established in 1964, gave its debut performance in Cannes in 1965, with George Skibine as director, Marjorie Tallchief as ballerina and a repertory featuring work by Alvin Ailey, Skibine, Eric Bruhn, Brian Macdonald and Stuart Hodes, the company mostly toured abroad, in the major theaters of Europe, to great acclaim, giving its dancers and choreographers a cosmopolitan experience unknown to most of their American colleagues. Its New York debut was in 1967 and Macdonald was also appointed director, succeeded by Lawrence Rhodes (1968) and joined by Benjamin Harkarvy in 1969. The ballet teacher David Howard was recruited in 1966 and became co-director of the school in 1971 with Maria Vegh, who had begun teaching at the school in 1968. In 1970, Harkness combined it with the Harkness Youth Ballet (founded 1969), directed by Ben Stevenson, succeeded by Vicente Nebrada. In 1972, she purchased an historic theatre (Colonial Theatre, built in 1905) across from Lincoln Center and renamed it The Harkness Theater. The theatre was completely remodeled with state-of-the-art dance stage flooring and Spanish artist Enrique Senis-Oliver painted ceiling murals, opening with a season by the company in 1974. The company disbanded within the next year. The vitality of the dancers was widely admired and many of the ballets were very erotic, including the homoerotic \"Sebastian\" (1963) to music of Gian-Carlo Menotti, \"Monument for a Dead Boy\" (1966) by Rudi Van Dantzig (b. 1933) and \"Gemini\" (1972) by Vincente Nebrada (b. 1930). The Harkness House for Ballet Arts, housed in a four story mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, served as the company's headquarters and official school, which continued for many years after the company closed and became the home to the American Dance Machine. Notable Harkness Ballet Trainee scholarship dancers attending the school included Lawrence Leritz and Patrick Swayze.The Harkness Ballet was managed by Jeannot B. Cerrone from 1964 to 1975. Its offices were at the Nathaniel L. McCready House, 4 East 75th Street on the Upper East Side.".
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- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Alvin_Ailey.
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- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Brian_Macdonald_(choreographer).
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- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Christopher_Aponte.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Claudia_Corday.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink David_Howard_(ballet_teacher).
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink George_Skibine.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Gian_Carlo_Menotti.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Helgi_Tómasson_(dancer).
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Homoeroticism.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Judith_Jamison.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Lar_Lubovitch.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Lawrence_Leritz.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Lawrence_Rhodes.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Maria_Vegh.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Marina_Eglevsky.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Marjorie_Tallchief.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Nathaniel_L._McCready_House.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Patrick_Swayze.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Rebekah_Harkness.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Standard_Oil.
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- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLink Vicente_Nebrada.
- Harkness_Ballet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Harkness Ballet".
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- Harkness_Ballet subject Category:1964_establishments_in_New_York.
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- Harkness_Ballet subject Category:Performing_groups_established_in_1964.
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- Harkness_Ballet comment "The Harkness Ballet (1964-1975) was a New York ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness. Ms Harkness inherited her husband's fortune in Standard Oil holdings and was a dance lover. Ms Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet, but when they refused to rename the company in her honour, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffery dancers for her new company. Joffery Ballet later moved to Chicago, and continues to function.".
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