Monthly Archives: January 2004

AMERICAN MASTERS Online spoke with BALANCHINE I & II director Merrill Brockway. AMERICAN MASTERS: You directed many of the early "Dance in America" films for PBS, including several works by Balanchine. MERRILL BROCKWAY: The difference with "Dance in America" was that we wanted the participation ...

By the time of his death on April 30, 1983, George Balanchine had created over 400 works and was recognized as a 20th-century master alongside Picasso and Stravinsky. Here is the story of how the man born Georg Melitonovitch Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia in ...

"I’ve always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers -- teachers with very loud voices." Based on the classic story of a young man’s battle with the forces of evil, George ...