American Ballet

Japanese: アメリカン・バレエ団 - あめりかんばれえだん
American Ballet

...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. ...

From [Ballanchin]

…In 1933, he was invited by Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) to America, where he founded the American Ballet School the following year. This was the basis for the American Ballet Company, which later evolved into the current New York City Ballet. In choreography, he believed that the ultimate goal was pure dance, and that dance was visual music played by the human body, an instrument. He created many so-called "abstract ballets" that had no narrative. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the American Ballet Company is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

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。…

【バランチン】より

…33年カーステーンLincoln Kirstein(1907‐96)に招かれアメリカに渡り,翌年アメリカン・バレエ学校を設立した。これを母体としてアメリカン・バレエ団ができ,現在のニューヨーク・シティ・バレエ団に発展した。振付においては純粋の舞踊のみが究極の目的であり,舞踊とは人体という楽器の奏でる視覚的音楽であるという考えに立っており,物語のない,いわゆる〈抽象バレエ〉を多く創作した。…

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