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Following Baryshnikov's appointment as artistic director of American Ballet Theatre in 1980, he worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp. Tharp choreographed Push Comes To Shove for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976; in 1986 she created In The Upper Room for her own company. Both these pieces were considered innovative for ...
Northern Dance Theatre, the name by which the company was originally known, was founded in 1969 by Canadian-born Laverne Meyer; a dramatic dancer whose formative years were spent with Bristol-based, Western Theatre Ballet, the first ever British dance company to be based outside London.
Brandt joined American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company in 2009, then became an apprentice with the main company in November 2010, and by June 2011 was in the Corps de Ballet. In August 2015, she worked her way up and was appointed a soloist in the company.
A fact from American Ballet Theatre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 August 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that in 1960 the American Ballet Theatre became the first American ballet company to dance in the Soviet Union? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions ...