George Balanchine's Life And Music

George Balanchine was born January 22, 1904, Saint Petersburg, Russia. His dad was a composer. He studied piano growing up he want to join the military. But at the age of 10 he join Imperial Ballet School he learned athletic russian dancing styles. After the russian revolution he was training in a government theater. He went to the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music to study piano but still in ballet at State Academy of Opera and Ballet