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The Joffrey Ballet eventually settled down in New York City, under the name the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet. In 1962, modern choreographer Alvin Ailey was invited to make a work for the company. Rebekah Harkness was an important early benefactor and she made international touring possible (Soviet Union, 1963), but in 1964 she and Joffrey ...
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Robert Joffrey. Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle, Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy. [ 1][ 2]
Edward Morgan (choreographer) Edward Morgan is an American dancer and choreographer. Morgan was a principal dancer at The Joffrey Ballet, and then a director of Joffrey II (1995-1997). He founded the MorganScott Ballet company with Daniel Scott in 1997; [ 1][ 2] it became The EdwardMorgan Ballet in 2007.
The New York International Ballet Competition ( NYIBC ), was a program providing dance education and employment opportunities for young dancers ages 17 to 24. In 1983 Ilona Copen founded NYIBC, with Igor Youskevitch as first artistic director, in order to fill a void and satisfy a need in the global dance ecosystem.
The New York Dance Festival is a two week cultural festival of performing arts that starts the 2nd week of July each summer in Auburn and New York City.The Festival is hosted by two of the region’s African American-led performing arts organizations, the Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre and the New York Institute of Dance & Education - NYIDE.
He served as Ballet Master for New York Theatre Ballet as well as for Florence, Italy's Maggio Danza. In 1997, he accepted a full faculty position at Studio Maestro in New York City. In 2001 he became the Managing Artistic Director until 2008 when the school was renamed Manhattan Youth ballet and remained the Managing Artistic Director until ...
In 2012 Joffrey's became the official specialty coffee of Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort and Disney Vacation Club. Now it operates dozens of locations throughout Disney properties in ...