Nicholas Magallanes was a principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet.
13 Facts About Nicholas Magallanes
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Nicholas Magallanes was born in Santa Rosalia de Camargo, now known as Camargo City, in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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Nicholas Magallanes moved with his parents to the United States when he was five years old, first to New Jersey and then to the Lower East Side of New York City.
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Nicholas Magallanes first appeared on stage in American Ballet Caravan's production of A Thousand Times Neigh, a tribute to the automobile, at the Ford pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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In 1940, Nicholas Magallanes danced briefly with the Littlefield Ballet, directed by Catherine Littlefield, and toured South America the following year with American Ballet Caravan.
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Nicholas Magallanes then danced with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, when Balanchine was ballet master.
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Besides the many original roles that he created, Nicholas Magallanes danced in almost every ballet in the New York City Ballet repertory.
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Nicholas Magallanes was closely associated with Balanchine's Serenade, Concerto Barocco, Symphony in C, and The Four Temperaments.
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In 1951 Nicholas Magallanes appeared with Tanaquil Le Clercq in the CBS TV special Premier.
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Nicholas Magallanes embodied the Balanchinian archetype with the melancholy heroes of Serenade, La Valse, and La Sonnambula.
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Nicholas Magallanes performed Orpheus, opposite Francisco Moncion as the Dark Angel and Tallchief as Eurydice.
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Nicholas Magallanes died of lung cancer at his home in North Merrick, Long Island at the age of 54.
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In 2013, Magallanes figured as a character in Nikolai and the Others, a play by Richard Nelson produced by the Lincoln Center Theater and presented at the Mitzi E Newhouse Theater in New York.