American Ballet School

Japanese: アメリカン・バレエ学校 - あめりかんばれえがっこう
American Ballet School

...The current name was adopted in 1948, but it began when Kirstein came up with the idea of ​​establishing a permanent ballet company to establish classical ballet in America and invited Balanchine from Paris in 1933. In January of the following year, 1934, the two first opened the School of American Ballet as a base for creating a ballet company, and in the following year, 1935, they established a touring American Ballet company made up of graduates from the school. In the fall of the same year, the company became the resident ballet company of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, but in 1938, due to differences of opinion with Balanchine, who disliked the idea of ​​becoming an international star, the company was terminated from its exclusive contract with the theater. ...

*Some of the terms mentioned in the "American Ballet School" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…現在の名称になったのは1948年からだが,クラシック・バレエをアメリカに根付かせるため,常設的なバレエ団の創設をカーステーンが考えて,1933年パリからバランチンを招いたのが始まりだった。翌34年1月2人はまずバレエ団をつくる素地としてアメリカン・バレエ学校を開校,翌35年には同校出身者から成る巡業用のアメリカン・バレエ団を創設した。同年秋ニューヨークのメトロポリタン歌劇場の座付きバレエ団になったが,国際スター指向をきらうバランチンとの見解の相違から,38年同劇場の専属契約を解除した。…

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