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Ballet Master (also Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress, Premier Maître de ballet or Premier Maître de ballet en Chef) is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company. In modern times, ballet masters (or ballet mistress for a female) are generally charged with teaching the daily company ballet class and rehearsing the dancers for both new and established ballets in the company's repertoire. The artistic director of a ballet company may also be called its ballet master.
Especially during the early centuries of ballet troupes and ballet companies from the 18th century until the early 20th century, the position of First Ballet master, referred to traditionally as the Premier Maître de ballet en Chef or more simply as the Maître de ballet, was the undisputed head of the company who acted as chief choreographer and Artistic Director. His duties included creating ballets, dances in operas, commissioning music, and presiding over the teaching of the dancers and style desired. It was this head ballet master who had the responsibility of the artistic directorship of a particular group of dancers or of a theatre.
Turbo B (born Durron Maurice Butler, April 30, 1967, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is an American musician, rapper and beatboxer, best known for his time fronting the electronic music group, Snap!.
Butler started his music career as a drummer for a heavy metal band in his hometown. After joining the United States Army in July 1985, he competed basic training (C-4-3) at Fort Dix and was transferred to the 8th SC, Redstone Arsenal, AL for advanced training where he qualified to become an ammunition specialist. With his advanced training complete, he was sent to Friedberg, Germany to join the 60th Ordnance Company in Ray Barracks. After completing his service in the Army he returned to the USA but went back to Germany shortly thereafter to tour with The Fat Boys. In 1990 DJ Rico Sparx discovered his rapping talents and introduced him to Snap! producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti (who were using the pseudonyms Benito Benites and John "Virgo" Garrett III); they chose him to replace Chill Rob G's vocals in their song "The Power". He chose the stage name Turbo B, which had been his nickname since childhood.
Actors: Per Oscarsson (actor), Tord Peterson (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Bertil Norström (actor), Göthe Grefbo (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Peter Lindgren (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Ingvar Kjellson (actor), Ernst Günther (actor), Allan Edwall (actor), Carl-Axel Elfving (actor), Gösta Krantz (actor), Olof Thunberg (actor), Bo Svenson (actor),
Plot: This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Keywords: drunkenness, female-nudity, monarch, nudity, royalty, sword, written-and-directed-by-cast-memberActors: Anthony Zerbe (actor), Anne Bancroft (actress), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Herbert Ross (producer), William Reynolds (editor), Albert Wolsky (costume designer), Herbert Ross (director), Marshall Thompson (actor), Tom Skerritt (actor), Shirley MacLaine (actress), Mikhail Baryshnikov (actor), Howard R. Schuster (miscellaneous crew), Martha Scott (actress), James Mitchell (actor), Donald Petrie (actor),
Plot: The story of two women whose lives are dedicated to ballet. Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in Oklahoma. Emma stayed with a company and became a star though her time is nearly past. Both want what the other has and reflects back on missed chances as they are brought together again through Deedee's daughter who joins the company.
Keywords: ambition, ballerina, ballet, ballet-dancing, career-change, catfight, dance, dance-studio, dancer, dancingActors: Sten Ardenstam (actor), Allan Edwall (actor), Sigge Fürst (actor), Sven Lindberg (actor), Jan Malmsjö (actor), Toivo Pawlo (actor), Gunnar Sjöberg (actor), Olof Thunberg (actor), Anita Björk (actress), Sif Ruud (actress), Rolf Husberg (director), Lennart Wallén (editor), Gio Petré (actress), Torbjörn Lundquist (composer), Gösta Petersson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A member of a highly successful crime drama TV-series is found murdered in a TV studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
Keywords: murder, televisionActors: Mario Adorf (actor), Albert Lieven (actor), Dietmar Schönherr (actor), Karel Stepanek (actor), Hans Söhnker (actor), Wolfgang Wahl (actor), Claire Bloom (actress), Dorothea Wieck (actress), Luggi Waldleitner (producer), Stefan Zweig (writer), Hans-Martin Majewski (composer), Rainer Brandt (actor), Rudolf Forster (actor), Alan Gifford (actor), Rijk de Gooyer (actor),
Plot: In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
Keywords: based-on-novel, brainwashing, chessActors: Gunther Philipp (actor), Hans Olden (actor), Emmerich Hanus (producer), Gretl Schörg (actress), Gerdago (costume designer), Emmerich Hanus (actor), Evelyn Künneke (actress), Nadja Tiller (actress), O.W. Fischer (actor), Walter Ladengast (actor), Karl Fochler (actor), Richard Eybner (actor), C.W. Fernbach (actor), Maria Holst (actress), Erich Dörner (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,Actors: William Newell (actor), Mikhail Rasumny (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Gordon B. Clarke (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), Leonard Mudie (actor), Robert Barron (actor), Gil Frye (actor), Jack George (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), David Leonard (actor), Mikhail Rasumny (actor),
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance,Actors: Martin Miller (actor), Valentine Dyall (actor), Vernon Sewell (director), Allan Gray (composer), Vernon Sewell (writer), Derrick De Marney (producer), Derrick De Marney (actor), Joan Greenwood (actress), Lily Kann (actress), Frederick Valk (actor), Bruce Winston (actor), Louis H. Jackson (producer), Lito Carruthers (editor), Sybille Binder (actress), Billy Holland (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Allen Fox (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Ralph Faulkner (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Sig Arno (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Richard Denning (actor), A.S. 'Pop' Byron (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Gene Collins (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor),
Plot: A penniless song writer, Larry Earl, is convinced he is going places in shown business, and convinces Mary, an assistant at an orphanage, to marry him. Fifteen months later they are still in love, but broke as Larry writes songs that won't sell and loses one job after another one. He stops to watch a group of newsboys singing and dancing, and decides to organize them into the greatest kid act to ever hit vaudeville. Mary persuades Proctor, a big theatrical manager, to book the act, and they are a big hit. Then Larry and his publicity agent, "Speed" King, launch a big publicity stunt---a talent train in which they travel across country holding auditions for young performers. Back in New York, Carlotta Salvini, an ex-OPera singer, brings in her talented fourteen-year-old-daughter, Jane, who has an amazing voice. Larry, to get the mother out of the way, offers Carlotta a forty-week vaudeville tour, and then goes to work to make a star out of Jane, by building Braodway's first all-kiddie musical revue around her. Opening night has "School Days" as the first act and the show and Jane are a big hit...until the Gerry Society, organized to protect working children, reminds Larry there is a law against children working after 10 p m., and the show closes. Larry's future appears dim at best.
Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, americana, audition, ballet, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, child-protectionActors: Bing Crosby (actor), J. Gunnis Davis (actor), George Cooper (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Sam Ash (actor), George Beranger (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Richard Carle (actor), John Carradine (actor), Frank Baker (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Monte Collins (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Billy Dooley (actor),
Plot: A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
Keywords: based-on-play, gangster, mistaken-identity, shipActors: Mauritz Stiller (director), Richard Lund (actor), Dagmar Ebbesen (actress), Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson (actress), Lars Hanson (actor), Albert Ståhl (actor), Jenny Hasselqvist (actress), Thure Holm (actor), Carl Johannesson (actor), Djalmar Christofersen (writer),
Genres: Short,