These surviving dances range from 1930 to 1985, from three-act ballets to gala divertissements and from pure-dance academic classicism to character-laden narrative comedy.
Beginning in the fall of 2014, the organization will team up with the Professional Performing Arts High School, allowing the students to continue studying both dance and academic subjects through 12th grade.
In order: Mr. Stiefel danced in Nils Christe's "Wavemaker," to music by John Adams, a spasmodic, floor-centered exercise more modern dance than academic ballet.
"What interests me," he says, "is exploration". Classicism, he says, has nothing to do with distinctions between modern dance and academic ballet; for Mr. Feld, the term refers to the way an artist uses materials and structure.
While at Bard, Ms. Lee had studied child psychology and in 1970 was awarded a Martin Luther King Fellowship for Urban Studies by New York University to develop a curriculum for elementary school students that combined music and dance with academic subjects.
The program works like this: children enrolled at various New York City public schools in grades three and four are given ballet auditions; if they possess the necessary talent, they are given the chance to attend Mr. Feld's school, which combines dance and academic training for grades 6 through 12, at 890 Broadway.
Dance music academic and cultural critic Luis-Manuel Garcia called this process the "concertization" of electronic music.
Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, he felt continually torn between dance and academic pursuits while coming to terms with his sexuality as a gay man.
Writer and dance music academic Luis-Manuel Garcia noted following the Ten Walls fiasco a few weeks ago: "Don't just be satisfied with the social/professional punishment of one obvious bigot in a world full of silent exclusions and micro-aggressions.
Even though it contains not one academic dance step, I often think of this 1975 creation as the dance of all dances; and I'm almost embarrassed by the range of reactions it prompts in me: gasps, laughs, sobs.
The scene starts with the Nutcracker triumphant but as yet unredeemed, and his academic dance gesture — tendu side, with arms open wide — is among the strangest in dance theater because its formal radiance clashes with his large, immobile head.
