Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on July 5th, 1942 and is the Dancer. At the age of 81, Eliot Feld biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Eliot Feld (born July 5, 1942) is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer, teacher, and director.
Feld works in contemporary ballet.
His company and schools, including the Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, are deeply committed to dance and dance education in New York City. Feld has choreographed nearly 150 ballets since 1967, with his work being performed by such companies as American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the Juilliard School, New York City Ballet, the New York City Opera, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, among many others.
Life and career
Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Alice (née Posner), a travel agent, and Benjamin Noah Feld, an attorney. Feld studied at the School of American Ballet and the New Dance Group in New York, as well as with Richard Thomas and Donald McKayle.
He appeared as a child in George Balanchine's first production of The Nutcracker Prince, as the Nutcracker Prince, and later with Mary Anthony, Pearl Lang, and Sophie Maslow. Feld was sick with pneumonia when he was on Broadway in West Side Story and was playing Baby John in the movie version of the musical; during the recording of "Cool" (one of the film's hardest dances), he was sick with pneumonia. I Can Get It for You Wholesale and Fiddler on the Roof are two of his Broadway credits from this period.
On television, he appeared on The Garry Moore Show and The Ed Sullivan Exhibition.
Feld later joined American Ballet Theatre, leaving at the age of 25 to start his own business.
Feld founded the Joyce Theater in the early 1980s as a home for the Feld Ballet, with Cora Cahan. Feld was also instrumental in the establishment of the Lawrence A. Wien Center for Dance & Theater in New York, which opened at 890 Broadway in New York.