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 Elizabeth Geyer
danced with the New York City Ballet Company under George Balanchine. She danced in over thirty ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Anthony Tudor, Jacques D'Amboise, John Clifford, Richard Tanner and others. Her training began at the school of American Ballet, where she studied with Antonina Tumkovsky, Helen Dudin, Andre Eglevsky, Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams, Muriel Stuart, Pierre Vladimiroff, Felia Doubroska, and Janet Collins. She also studied extensively with Peter Nelson, Leon Danelian, Maggie Black, Twyla Tharp, David Howard, Melissa Hayden, and many more. After dancing with the NYC Ballet from 1969-1972, she earned a BS degree from New York University and started a company of her own, EGG & Dancers.
Her early choreographic efforts were rewarded with a Clark Center New Choreographer's Showcase in 1977, and critical acclaim in the New York Times and Dance Magazine. In 1980, she received a grant from the Criterion Foundation to create an evening of dance, "Choreotunes", to the music of two contemporary composers, Stuart Diamond and Michael McFrederick. Two of the dances were translated to productions for television and were shown on cable television. "Journey", a ballet to film to music by Diamond, won a bronze award at the International Film and Television Festival of the Americas in Huston, Texas in 1981. Her company toured colleges and festivals around the country and provided performances in New York City's parks under the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and received numerous grants from Meet the Composer Foundation for productions using the original music of McFrederick, Diamond and Joseph Karpienia, whom she married in 1984.
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