:Patricia McBride
{{Short description|American ballet dancer (born 1942)}}
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| name = Patricia McBride
| image = Patricia McBride Jewels 1967.JPG
| caption = McBride in Balanchine's Jewels, 1967
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|08|23}}
| birth_place = Teaneck, New Jersey
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| occupation = Ballerina, teacher
| years_active = 1959–1989
| spouse = Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux
| children = Melanie Bonnefoux-DeCoudres, Christopher Bonnefoux
| awards = Kennedy Center Honors, 2014
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Patricia McBride (born August 23, 1942) is a ballerina{{cite web | title = August 23, 1942 in History | publisher = BrainyHistory.com |url=http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1942/august_23_1942_101500.html |access-date=January 11, 2012}} who spent nearly 30 years dancing with the New York City Ballet. McBride joined the New York City Ballet in 1959. She became a principal in 1961, becoming the company's youngest principal. She danced with the company for 30 years, including roles created for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
New York City Ballet career
File:Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patricia McBride.jpg
In the 30 years she spent dancing with the company she had numerous roles created for her by George Balanchine such as: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Tarantella; Colombine in Harlequinade; the ballerina role in the Intermezzo of the Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet; Rubies; Who Cares? ("The Man I Love" pas de deux and "Fascinatin' Rhythm" solo); Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée; Swanilda in Coppélia; Pavane; the paper ballerina in The Steadfast Tin Soldier; the Pearly Queen in Union Jack and the "Voices of Spring" section of Vienna Waltzes.
Jerome Robbins created roles for McBride in Dances at a Gathering (pink), In the Night (third nocturne), The Goldberg Variations, The Four Seasons (fall) and Opus 19/The Dreamer, among other ballets.
In 1979, she danced in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, a ballet based on the 1670 play by Molière. Her role was minor, and danced well, in contrast to that of Rudolf Nureyev and Jean‐Pierre Bonnefoux. The dance had been first choreographed by Balanchine, then picked up by Jerome Robbins.{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A16FD3C5D12728DDDA00894DC405B898BF1D3 |last=Kisselgoff |first=Anna |author-link=Anna Kisselgoff |title=Balanchine-Robbins Work for Nureyev From Moliere |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 9, 1979 |access-date=January 30, 2019}}
McBride was featured in the documentary film A Portrait of Giselle.
Honors
McBride was honored with a special performance of the City Ballet on June 4, 1989 at the New York State Theater at New York City's Lincoln Center on her retirement.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-18-ca-3769-story.html |title=Reflections on a Career: Retirement at the Top : After 30 years with NYCB, Patricia McBride remembers Balanchine, Baryshnikov and others |date=June 18, 1989 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=May 31, 2012}}
McBride was recognized on December 7, 2014, as a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.
Charlotte Ballet
McBride is the Associate Artistic Director and Master Teacher of Charlotte Ballet.
Personal life
She resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with her two children. She lived with her husband Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, also a dancer and teacher of dance, until his death in 2025.https://www.dansermag.com/2025/04/15/jean-pierre-bonnefous-1943-2025/
References
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External links
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- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5338tL4FGM Ballerina's award-winning, groundbreaking career], CBS This Morning
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Category:Entertainers from Teaneck, New Jersey
Category:New York City Ballet principal dancers
Category:American prima ballerinas
Category:School of American Ballet alumni