Talk:George Balanchine

Work with Debussy?
Article says: "During these years, he worked with composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy". "These years" refer to the period 1924-1929. How could Balanchine have worked with Debussy, who died in 1918? -- sylvainhalle 01:22 &:25, 15 Apr 2015 (UTC)

microindentology
The expression "microindentology professor" is meaningless and seems vandalism. 2001:4C4E:3003:7100:2023:2F42:E05B:BCC8 (talk) 09:56, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

abusive
There's only a blurb in this article about Balanchine's autocratic, abusive style. There is no mention about how Balanchine did nothing to help dancers who abused drugs within the company and in fact, seemed to tolerate it. There is no mention of Gelsey Kirkland's book "Dancing On My Grave" which is a damning portrayal of Balanchine's excesses. Balanchine was a successful choreographer but this amounts to a big "so what" when contrasted with his tyrannical style. This article mentions VERY LITTLE INDEED about his enormous flaws and as such makes it seem written by people who simply want to bury that fact. How about it Wikipedia? You go around pan handling for funds but your editors write articles that are so obviously biased. 47.138.89.140 (talk) 04:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * You're welcome to add sourced additions to the article if you feel it's lacking. Not everyone is educated on the topic as you seem to be. oncamera  (talk page) 04:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Georgian not Russian.
Even tho Balanchine was born in Russian Empire, the official legal document(which we can call citizenship of some sort) had ethnicity and other details specified. And ironic enough no one in Russia would ever call him Russian, since they looked down on non-Russians. Lemabeta (talk) 14:17, 24 May 2024 (UTC)