Eliot Feld

Eliot Feld

Birth : 1942-07-05, Brooklyn, New York, USA

History

Eliot Feld is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer, actor, teacher and director. He attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and later studied at the School of American Ballet and the New Dance Group. At the age of sixteen he appeared on Broadway in the stage version of "West Side Story" and was later cast as 'Baby John' in the film version of the musical. In 1967 he formed his own company, the American Ballet Company (later known simply as Feld Ballet) and in 1978 a ballet school, the New Ballet School.

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Eliot Feld

Movies

That's Dancing!
That's Dancing!
'West Side Story' dancer
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
West Side Story
West Side Story
Baby John
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two romantics, one from each gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.