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NYCB Vol. 16 No. 6 - Square Dance and Elisha C. Keeler
Elisha C. Keeler Square dance calling was in Elisha’s blood. His father, Thaddeus Keeler, farmer, carpenter and sawyer, was a well known...

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 23


NYCB Vol. 16 No. 3 - Square Dance
Nicholas Magallanes and Patricia Wilde. Photo by Martha Swope, 1957. "Last night at the City Center the New York City Ballet presented its first new work, and the hitherto sluggish young season came to life with a bang. The work in question was George Balanchine's "Square Dance" and it is a gem. "The set is just a bare hall such as usually houses square dancing, and on a dais sits a band of fiddlers in shirt-sleeves. Below them is caller (a famous one he is, named Elisha C. K

Lauryn Johnson
Sep 17


NYCB Vol. 7 No. 7 - Square Dance
When Square Dance was choreographed in 1957, the cast included popular square dance caller, Elisha Keeler. The ballet featured his whitty...

Lauryn Johnson
Apr 23, 2023
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