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Item 1st International Ballet Competition (6/11-7/2/1984)(1984) Foshko, RobertItem Agnes de Mille (website clip)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Agnes de Mille at gala(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Alexandra Danilova (website clip)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Alicia Alonso (website clip)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Ann Barzel (website clip)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Ballet Hispánico : constructing Latinx identity through concert dance(2018-06-18) Figueroa, Brianna Lynn; Rossen, Rebecca; Beltrán, Mary; Bonin, Paul; Gutiérrez, LauraIn 1970, Tina Ramirez founded Ballet Hispánico in order to provide Latinx dance students with professional opportunities at a time when few existed. Over the next forty years, Ramirez transformed her school and folk performance troupe into a distinguished, multifaceted institution of contemporary dance with an elite performance company, a socially progressive education initiative, and mentorship programs for aspiring dancers and choreographers. In 2009, she entrusted the company to former Ballet Hispánico dancer, Eduardo Vilaro who currently acts as artistic director and CEO. This dissertation analyzes the complex negotiations required of this culturally specific dance organization across time. Throughout, I critically examine Ballet Hispánico’s successes and challenges in an effort to make visible the environment in which Latinx dance-making occurs in the US. My research converges at the intersection of dance studies and Latinx studies: both fields have grievously overlooked the cultural and artistic labor of Latinx artists accessing modern, post-modern, and contemporary dance styles. I argue that Ballet Hispánico strategically appealed to gatekeepers and audiences alike by constructing their identity in a manner that invites cross-cultural collaboration. In this way, they earned the patronage of city officials who helped them invest in invaluable infrastructure while garnering influential partnerships with leading intuitions like the Joyce Theatre. This approach also freed them to make alliances with notable non-Latinx choreographers who provided repertory in the absence of a pre-developed reservoir of Latinx choreographers. Under these conditions, Ballet Hispánico has advanced Latinx presence in concert dance with unmatched success. However, I also assert that there were concessions to this multicultural approach. By examining the company’s corpus of choreography, I reveal a complicated tapestry of representation that suggest complicity with certain stereotypes of Latinidad, especially with regard to race, gender, and sexuality. I contend that the proliferation of such images helps construe Latinxs as a nonthreatening Other at the expense of more constructive depictions found elsewhere in the repertoire. Ultimately, this body of research positions Ballet Hispánico as a point from which to begin assessing the history of Latinx artists in US concert dance and strategize for a more robust futureItem Conference opening remarks by Barbara Barker, etc.(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Conference opening remarks by Barbara Barker, etc. & IY rehearsing Romeo & Juliet(1982) Foshko, RobertItem CRONE : soundtrack to the motion picture(2017-05) Lipman, Sam; Welcher, Dan; Sharlat, YevgeniyCRONE was commissioned in January 2017 by Dorothy O’Shea Overbey with generous support from the Community Initiatives Grant from the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, as the soundtrack to her forthcoming ballet/virtual reality film. With only a few scenes in mind, Dorothy and I began collaborating to construct a thirty-minute ballet story of a mother-father-daughter triangle. A daughter’s penchant for dark magic proves too much for her mother, who is then killed by the return of the General, her estranged husband. The mother is later avenged when the daughter uses her new power to kill the General, but upon the realization that he was her father, she transforms into the Crone. This work is intended as the prequel for two subsequent full-feature films. CRONE was premiered in concert in Bates Recital Hall on March 17th by the Prismatix Ensemble, conducted by Paul Grobey, and recorded March 18th by engineer John Cates, supervised by UT Professor Bruce Pennycook. The ballet will be choreographed over the summer to the recorded filmscore, subsequently filmed, and spliced together with 3D footage of the concert into a full virtual reality movie, to be released in the Spring of 2018. For more information, please go to www.rednightfallproductions.com.Item Dinner at the UT Faculty Center(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Eugene Slavin ballet master class(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Eugene Slavin ballet rehearsal for Gaîté Parisienne (1)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Eugene Slavin ballet rehearsal for Gaîté Parisienne (2)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Eugene Slavin ballet rehearsal for Gaîté Parisienne (3)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem George Zoritch ballet master class(1982) Foshko, RobertItem George Zoritch ballet master class (the complete class)(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Helen McGehee and Eugene Slavin ballet master class(1982) Foshko, RobertItem Igor Youskevitch (website clip)(1982) Foshko, Robert
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