Accomplishments

In my reading of George Balanchine I discovered how versitile his choreography and dancing was. I thought it was only ballet, but it turns out Balanchine composed ballets for motion pictures or movies, musicals, comedies, and operas. When he came to America, he brought with him certain styles of dance from Russia and mixed them with American techniques in order to create a whole new America classic style of dancing. His unique styles and interesting distortions of the norm changed ballet forever, and now those techniques he created, are taught in schools all over America today. I myself have been taught the Balanchine method and can say it is by far my favorite method of dance. It is beautiful, unique, different, and very distinguishable. Balanchine also started several or helped found several ballet companies. They are the American Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ballet Society. All of which are very successful and well known even to this day. People don't usually know this, but Balanchine was also an extremely accomplished musician, and he also collaborated with many famous composers like Igor Stravinsky, Hershy Kay, and many more. George Balanchine was a man of many talents, and he used them to help develop the world of dance into an even more beautiful form f art than it already was.

Sources: Moore, Lillian, ed. World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 2 Feild Enterprise Educational Corp., 1963, page 29