Benjamin Harkarvy

Benjamin Harkarvy (1971)

Benjamin Harkarvy (born December 16, 1930 in New York City ; † March 30, 2002 ibid.) Was an American dance teacher, ballet master and choreographer.

Harkarvy had ballet lessons from the age of thirteen. His first teachers were Edward Caton and Yelizaveta Anderson-Ivantzova . He then studied dance at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet and worked briefly as a dancer at Brooklyn Lyric Opera . He taught from 1951 to 1955 at Michel Fokine's school in New York and opened his own ballet school in 1955. From 1957 he directed the Royal Winnipeg Ballet , and in 1958 he became ballet master of the Dutch National Ballet .

In 1959 he founded the Nederlands Dans Theater , which he ran with Hans van Manen for ten years. He performed his own choreographies here, but also hired choreographers such as Anna Sokolow , Glen Tetley and John Butler . In 1969 he became co-director of the Harkness Ballet alongside Lawrence Rhodes , which was disbanded the following year. He then returned to the Dutch National Ballet and directed the Pennsylvania Ballet from 1973 to 1982 .

From 1990 Harkarvy taught ballet and modern dance at the Juilliard School . From 1992 he was head of the dance department at the Juilliard School. He also worked as a teacher and trainer for the Royal Danish Ballet , Les Grands Ballets Canadiens , the National Ballet of Spain and the Nederlands Dans Theater , led the ballet project at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival for six years and was a guest teacher at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater . He has worked as a choreographer for American, Canadian and European television stations and has created several choreographies for the Juilliard Dance Ensemble , including Prom Story (1987), Cinque Madrigali (1991), Three Debussy Duets (1992), Time Passed Summer , Recital for Cello and Eight Dancers and Mozart K. 458 . He has received multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation .

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SURNAME	Harkarvy, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American dance teacher, ballet master, and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 2002
Place of death	New York City