Backchat (ballet)
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Backchat is a ballet made by Eliot Feld
for his Ballet Tech company to "Idle Chatter Junior" by Paul Lansky
. The premiere took place October 21, 2004, during the company's MANDANCE PROJECT season at the Joyce Theater
, New York. The New York City Ballet
premiere of Backchat was Saturday, April 29th, 2006, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
.
Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer and director.-Life and career:Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Alice , a travel agent, and Benjamin Noah Feld, an attorney...
for his Ballet Tech company to "Idle Chatter Junior" by Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day .-Biography:...
. The premiere took place October 21, 2004, during the company's MANDANCE PROJECT season at the Joyce Theater
Joyce Theater
The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a former firehouse on Mercer...
, New York. The New York City Ballet
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...
premiere of Backchat was Saturday, April 29th, 2006, 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:...
.
ManDance Project
- Wu-Kang Chen
- Nickemil Concepcion
- Jason Jordan
NYCB
- Adrian Danchig-Waring
- Craig Hall
- Andrew Veyette
External links
- Ballet Tech website
- NYCB website
- NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff October 23, 2004 of Ballet Tech's MANDANCE PROJECT at the Joyce Theater
- Dance Magazine review by Gus Solomons, Jr., January 2005 of Ballet Tech's MANDANCE PROJECT at the Joyce Theater
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03EFDF113FF932A35756C0A9609C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/F/Feld,%20EliotNY 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...
May 1, 2006 of NYCB]