Christopher Gable (born March 13, 1940 in London, England - died October 25, 1998 in Yorkshire, England) was a British dancer and actor.

Gable studied at the Royal Ballet School, becoming a soloist in 1959 with the Royal Ballet. He continued as a principal with Covent Garden Ballet, but was troubled by arthritis and left in 1967 to pursue a career in acting.

Christopher Gable's ballet roles included that of Mercury in Jacques Offenbach's comic operetta, "Orpheus in the Underworld", in a production which has been released on DVD.

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Rauschenberg's Dance Fixation
Wed, 14 May 2008 06:11:33 -0800
"Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg's talent -- always evident in his radical feeling for color, light, composition and new ingredients and juxtapositions --prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage. From the early 1950s until 2007 he designed for dance. And in the late '50s and early '60s, when he first came to fame, he was recurrently (at times constantly) occupied in dance theater."...
Why Jerome Robbins Matters
Mon, 12 May 2008 06:20:53 -0800
Like Leonard Bernstein, "Robbins believed that it was possible to create a distinctively American style of high art that could draw on popular culture without compromising its own underlying seriousness."...
Evidence Of A Rocky Ballet Future
Sun, 11 May 2008 19:40:38 -0800
"The company didn't envision its ambitious New Works Festival, the centerpiece of the San Francisco Ballet's 75th-anniversary season, as a microcosm of what's wrong with the ballet world. But the fact that this large outlay of money, time and talent -- unprecedented in its scope -- produced more mediocrity than revelation points to a big problem for ballet. Self-renewal is not its strong suit."...
Analyzing Tudor
Sun, 11 May 2008 09:47:55 -0800
Antony Tudor "was known as the psychological choreographer, and he arrived when psychology entered American popular culture." It was a theme to which Tudor would return over and over in his long career....
Tale Of The Toe
Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:41 -0800
Toe shoes are a major budget expense for ballet companies. The San Francisco Ballet provides 120 pairs of pointe shoes for each of its 40 female dancers. The American Ballet Theatre in New York City sets aside $350,000 for pointe shoes per season, about $7,500 per ballerina....
The Bossa Nova At 50
Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:22 -0800
"We should have been a wonderful, democratic country. Instead we had 21 years of military dictatorship, something we are still paying for. So bossa nova represents a different way of life; a culture more sophisticated than the one we have today."...

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