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by David Hallberg


  Giselle (ABT), 129–134, 217, 221–227, 271

  Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 137–141

  Romeo and Juliet (ABT), 295, 298–301

  at Paris Opera Ballet School, 75

  “putting her on her leg,” 91–93, 111–114

  rapport and, 88, 107–109, 129–134, 225, 231

  Alina Somova, The Sleeping Beauty (Mariinsky Ballet), 151

  upper-body strength for, 82, 88

  Diana Vishneva, The Sleeping Beauty (ABT), 15–16

  Michele Wiles

  “Grand Pas Classique” (ABT), 89–94, 134–137

  Manon bedroom pas de deux (ABT), 89–94

  Swan Lake (ABT, shorter version), 97–106

  Theme and Variations (ABT), 111–114

  Svetlana Zakharova

  Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 269–271, 327, 328–329

  The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi Ballet), 209, 211–212, 230–233, 243–249, 251–256

  The Sleeping Beauty (Paris Opera Ballet), 315–320

  Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet), 259–260, 266–267, 330–332

  pas de poisson, 323–324

  Pavlova, Anna, 144

  Petipa, Marius, 96, 98, 99, 107, 143, 187, 200

  Phoenix, Arizona, 23–63

  Dancentre, 24, 28–29, 39

  DH and Lutheran church, 34–35, 287

  DH at Arizona School for the Arts, 41, 47, 75, 76–77

  DH at Desert Shadows Middle School, 33–40, 41

  DH at School of Ballet Arizona, 47–63

  DH in Ballet Arizona, The Nutcracker, 29–31, 51

  DH training with Mr. Han. See Han, Kee Juan

  raves, 53–55, 343

  physiotherapy team in Australia, 355–397

  Paula Baird Colt, 355, 356, 357–361, 362, 371, 376–377, 391, 402

  Megan Connelly, 355, 356, 362–365, 371–374, 378–379, 380–383, 385–386, 388–391, 396, 401–402

  demi-pointe stairwell walking, 376–377, 389, 401

  DH emotional breakthrough, 380–383

  DH log of interpretations, 358, 360

  DH return to ABT stage, 401–402

  Sue Mayes, 350–353, 355–357, 359, 375–376, 377, 379–383, 386–388, 391, 396, 402

  Picture of Dorian Gray, The (ABT), 107–108

  Pillar of Fire (ABT), 108

  Piotrovsky, Adrian, 170

  pirouettes, 51, 110, 146, 181, 224–225, 378–379

  pliés, 9–10, 11, 156, 341–342, 344, 345, 346, 355, 372, 374, 375–377, 379, 380, 394

  port de bras, 149, 400

  postshow rituals, 15–16, 105–106, 140–141, 162

  preshow rituals, 13–14, 130–131, 223, 319, 402–403

  Prince, 37

  promenades, 57, 93

  raked stages, 179, 188–189, 224–225

  Ratmansky, Alexei

  as ABT Artist in Residence, 166–172, 177–180

  background, 166–167

  as Bolshoi Artistic Director, 127–128, 167, 169–170, 177, 185, 273

  The Bright Stream (ABT), 169–172

  Cinderella, 317

  On the Dnieper, 168

  Firebird (ABT), 273–276

  Flames of Paris (Bolshoi Ballet), 127–128, 177–178, 230

  injuries of DH and, 349

  Lost Illusions (Boshoi Ballet), 317, 321

  The Nutcracker (ABT), 108, 122

  Seven Sonatas (ABT), 168, 179–180, 185

  Shostakovich Trilogy (ABT), 168, 307–308

  teaching style, 167–169

  raves, 53–55

  Raymonda (ABT), 107

  relevé, 355, 364

  Robbins, Jerome, 335–336

  Robchinskiy, Gosha, 282–283

  Rodriguez, Michelle, 342–343, 346–347

  Romeo and Juliet

  American Ballet Theater (ABT), 1–2, 67, 108, 295, 298–301

  balcony scene, 90, 224, 299–301

  kiss in, 90, 300

  rond de jambe, 10

  Royal Ballet (UK), Swan Lake, 66

  RSD (complex regional pain syndrome), 341, 343

  Russian Orthodox weddings, 287–289

  St. Petersburg. See Mariinsky Ballet and Theatre (St. Petersburg)

  Salstein, Craig, 335–336

  Sanduny bathhouse (banya), Moscow, 264–267, 312

  School of Ballet Arizona

  DH as student, 196

  DH in Sleeping Beauty pas de deux, 57–58

  DH on brochure cover, 76–77

  Kee Juan Han as teacher of DH, 47–63

  Segerstrom Center for the Arts (Costa Mesa, California), 116, 201

  self-acceptance, importance of, 79–80, 134

  Semenyaka, Ludmila, 230–231, 232–233, 270

  Seven Sonatas (ABT), 168, 179–180, 185

  sexual identity of DH

  AIDS epidemic and, 43

  attitudes toward, 285–286, 287

  bullying and teasing, 22–24, 27–28, 33–35, 39–40, 41, 170–172, 286

  effeminate nature, 22–23

  family support and, 39–45

  female friends, 33–34

  and Jack, 36–38, 41–45

  psychiatrists and, 23

  Shannon, Michael, 197

  Shostakovich, Dmitri, 170

  Shostokovich Trilogy (ABT), 168, 307–308

  Simachev (Bar & Shop, “Sima”), 283–284, 285

  sissones, 324

  Sleeping Beauty, The

  American Ballet Theater (ABT), 15–16, 119–120, 315

  in Big Five of ballet, 143

  Bolshoi Ballet, 209, 211–212, 214, 230–233, 238–239, 240–241, 243–249, 251–256, 291, 304, 315

  character development, 150–151

  DH sprains ankle in Bolshoi production, 255–256, 304

  Mariinsky Ballet, 143–144, 146–151, 189, 315

  Paris Opera Ballet, 315–320, 322

  School of Ballet Arizona (pas de deux), 57–58

  “Sometimes It Snows in April” (Prince), 37

  Somova, Alina, in The Sleeping Beauty (Mariinsky Ballet), 151

  sous-sous, 116

  Spartacus (Bolshoi Ballet), 275, 323–324

  Special K, 55, 343–344

  stage floors

  canvas, 224–225

  Marley floors, 156, 224–225

  raked stages, 179, 188–189, 224–225

  wood, 156

  Stalin, Joseph, 170

  Stanislavsky Theatre, 178

  Stiefel, Ethan, 65, 85–86, 118, 146, 153–154, 305–306

  Stravinsky, Igor, 116–117, 273

  Studio Company (ABT), 66, 81–84

  Stuttgart Ballet, 94

  Summer Intensive (ABT), 66–70

  DH accepted in, 68–70, 71–72, 110

  DH auditions for, 66–68

  Swan Lake

  American Ballet Theater (ABT), 61–62, 67, 95–106, 121, 245

  in Big Five of ballet, 143

  Bolshoi Ballet, 96, 136, 232–233, 238, 239, 259–260, 266–267, 309–310, 317, 330–332

  character development, 102–103

  history of ballet, 96–98, 99, 136, 177, 239

  Mariinsky Ballet, 165–166, 187–191

  music for, 95–96, 136

  Paris Opera Ballet, 123, 322–323

  popularity of, 96–97

  Royal Ballet, 66

  Teatro alla Scala, 322–323

  Sylvia

  American Ballet Theater (ABT), 116

  music for, 96

  Symphony in C, 1st movement (ABT), 86–88, 245

  tap dancing of DH

  after-school program, 20–22

  Fred Astaire and, 18–20

  school talent show, 24–25

  tap shoes, 19–20

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 95–96, 136, 177, 187, 247, 260, 277, 294

  teachers and coaches of DH

  Ib Andersen, 116

  Mr. Bernstein (Phoenix music teacher), 24–25

  Yuri Fateyev, 146–151, 165–166, 184, 187–191, 194–19
5, 198

  finding coaches, 147–148

  Guillaume Graffin, ABT, 97–106, 118, 147, 244

  Kee Juan Han, School of Ballet Arizona, 47–63, 69–70, 96, 98, 328–329

  Irina Kolpakova, 129–130

  Kevin McKenzie, ABT, 89–94, 103, 105–106, 129–130, 399–404

  John Meehan, ABT, 82–84

  Ludmila Semenyaka, 230–231, 232–233, 270

  Maxine Vashro (Minneapolis), 21

  Alexander Vetrov (Sasha, Bolshoi), 214–219, 221–222, 226, 230–231, 243–244, 246, 248, 251, 260, 270, 271, 312, 323–324, 330–332

  Teatro alla Scala, Swan Lake, 322–323

  tendu, 10, 48, 156, 296–297, 355, 364

  Theme and Variations, 117

  American Ballet Theater (ABT), 108, 110–114, 156, 177, 179–181

  American Ballet Theater (ABT) Summer Intensive, 72, 110

  challenges of, 110, 179, 181

  tombé pas de bourrée, 380

  tour jeté, 244

  Tsiskaridze, Nikolai, 242, 259

  turnout, 218

  Turovnikova, Natalia (“Natasha”), 283–285

  Ulanova, Galina, 128

  Vaganova, Agrippina, 58–60

  Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, The (St. Petersburg), 58

  Vail, Colorado

  DH in summer intensive program, 60–61

  DH in Vail International Dance Festival, 242

  van Hamel, Martine, 90

  Vashro, Maxine, 21

  Vasiliev, Ivan, 201

  in the Bolshoi Ballet, 127–128, 139, 144–145, 167, 201, 217

  in Flames of Paris (Bolshoi Ballet), 127–128, 177–178, 230

  in Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 140

  leaves Bolshoi Ballet, 229–230

  Vasiliev, Vladimir, 139–140

  Vayer, Clotilde, 316

  Veronique Doisneau (film), 122–123, 124

  Vetrov, Alexander (“Sasha”)

  as coach of DH, 214–219, 221–222, 226, 230–231, 243–244, 246, 248, 251, 260, 270, 271, 312, 323–324, 330–332

  teaching style, 218–219

  Villella, Edward, 275

  Vishneva, Diana

  injuries of DH and, 349

  in The Sleeping Beauty (ABT), 15–16

  vitamin deficiencies, 261

  Vogel, Friedmann, 94

  Vorontsova, Anzhelina, 309–310

  Wakin, Daniel J., 199

  Washington Ballet, The, DH on board of directors, 62–63

  Washington, DC

  ABT at Kennedy Center, 87–88

  Bolshoi at Kennedy Center, 327, 328–329

  DH attends Kennedy Center Honors, 340

  Mariinsky Ballet performances, 165–166

  Washington School of Ballet, 62–63

  Whelan, Wendy, 296–297

  Wilde, Oscar, 107–108

  Wiles, Michele

  in “Grand Pas Classique” (ABT), 89–94, 134–137

  as Manon in Manon bedroom pas de deux (ABT), 89–94

  as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (ABT, shorter version), 97–106

  in Theme and Variations (ABT), 111–114

  wins Erik Bruhn Prize (Toronto), 94

  wings of the house, 136–137, 245, 246, 247, 331, 403

  Woetzel, Damian, 134

  Zakharova, Svetlana

  Giselle in Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet), 269–271, 327, 328–329

  Nikiya in La Bayadère (ABT), 208–209

  Odette-Odile in Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet), 259–260, 266–267, 330–332

  Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi Ballet), 209, 211–212, 230–233, 243–249, 251–256

  Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Paris Opera Ballet), 315–320

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  Title: A body of work : dancing to the edge and back / David Hallberg.

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