Pleasant was appointed director of the organization. Pleasant had decided that the Mordkin Ballet was too small an undertaking and they began to formulate plans for a full-fledged company, to be called Ballet Theatre. It was an open secret that the Mordkin Ballet was financed by Lucia Chase.īy the summer of 1939 Miss Chase and Mr. The repertoire was augmented by Voices of Spring, Trepak(Alexander Tcherepnine's music) and what was called a symphonic version of Swan Lake(Act 2). Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Kari Karnakoski, and Savva Andreeff were new soloists. Richard Pleasant was appointed general manager of the company Patricia Bowman was engaged as prima ballerina Nina Stroganova, Karen Conrad, Edward Caton. The second season of the Mordkin Ballet (1938) brought many additions and a number of changes in the personnel. The repertoire included Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardée, Dionysius(to Glazounov's music), and The Goldfish,all choreographed by Mordkin who also appeared in some of the ballets. Dimitri Romanoff, George Chaffee, and Leon Danielian. In the Mordkin Ballet the soloists were Lucia Chase, Viola Essen, Leon Varkas. He died in 1944.īallet Theatre, launched in New York City in the fall of 1939, was an outgrowth of the Mordkin Ballet, which began in 1937 as an outlet for the talents of the students of Mikhail Mordkin's school. He possessed a “vivid personality” with the ability to “transmit something of the true spirit of the dance,” and he tried to bring out special qualities in each of his students. It is as a teacher that he is best remembered. Mordkin returned to teaching at his Carnegie Hall studio. Mikhail Mordkin was informed that he was no longer needed to teach or choreograph for the company, and only one of his ballets was ever produced by Ballet Theatre. In September of 1939, the nucleus of the Mordkin Ballet was reorganized into Ballet Theatre. Chase and Pleasant began to plan for a larger company, with more choreographers and dancers, and different artistic goals. The company continued to tour with Mordkin's ballets, however, many new ideas were developing.
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A more professional Mordkin Ballet emerged, and dancers the calibre of Patricia Bowman, Nina Stroganova, Karen Conrad, Edward Caton, and Vladimir Dokoudovsky were hired. Richard Pleasant managed the school and was later made secretary of the organization.
In 1938, the company was reorganized under Advanced Arts, Inc., with Rudolf Orthwine as president. The Mordkin Ballet began to tour nationwide with a small repertory of ballets choreographed by Mordkin. Advance Productions, with Lucia Chase as the major stockholder, was incorporated in March, 1937, to sponsor the company. Plans for the student company became more ambitious. On December 19, 1936, the company presented Sleeping Beauty,sponsored by the Woman's Club of Waterbury, Connecticut, with Lucia Chase and Dimitri Romanoff in the leading roles. By 1936, according to an advertisement of the time, his school offered “complete ballet training, mimo-drama classes, rehearsal group prepare ballets for performances.” This group, the Mikhail Mordkin Ballet, was an outlet for advanced students (with Mordkin himself dancing main character parts). He left Russia in 1923, settled in New York, and in 1927, opened a ballet school in Carnegie Hall. In 1910, he partnered Anna Pavlova at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and on a tour of the United States. He was a graduate of the Imperial Ballet School there and eventually became a leading dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre. Mikhail Mordkin was born in Moscow in 1881.
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