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UnclaimedEcho is a ballet choreographed by Peter Martins for New York City Ballet and set to Michael Torke's 1989 composition Slate.
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Overview
Echo is a contemporary ballet created by Peter Martins for New York City Ballet. Its musical foundation is Michael Torke's Slate, a composition dating from 1989, and the ballet premiered on 15 June 1989 at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City. The work represents the third collaboration between Martins, a leading choreographer and ballet master associated with New York City Ballet, and Torke, whose music supplied the score for the production. In the context of Martins's repertory, Echo belongs to a series of ballets developed through direct cooperation between choreography and contemporary composition rather than through adaptation of a nineteenth-century narrative ballet. The available reference material identifies the work primarily through its choreographer, composer, premiere date, venue, and place within that collaboration sequence. It also lists Echo alongside related Martins works such as Ash, Black and White, and Ecstatic Orange. The ballet was subsequently discussed in a review by New York Times dance critic Anna Kisselgoff, published on 7 July 1991. Publicly available source material supplied for this entry does not establish a separate commercial brand structure, corporate owner, product portfolio, recurring touring business, or current performance status. Accordingly, Echo is treated here as a named performing-arts work associated with New York City Ballet rather than as a conventional consumer brand. Its known identity rests on the artistic relationship among Martins, Torke, the company, and the Lincoln Center premiere venue.
History
Echo was created for New York City Ballet by Peter Martins and is set to Michael Torke's Slate, a work composed in 1989. The ballet premiered on 15 June 1989 at the New York State Theater, the company's principal Lincoln Center venue in New York City. This premiere placed Echo within the company's contemporary repertory and connected it to Martins's continuing interest in commissioning or presenting choreography in dialogue with living composers. The work was the third collaboration between Martins and Torke. That detail is significant to Echo's artistic history because it indicates that the ballet was not an isolated meeting between choreographer and composer, but part of an ongoing creative relationship. The supplied reference material does not provide the names of the original dancers, the production's scenic or costume designers, its precise choreographic structure, or a detailed account of its subsequent performance history. It does, however, situate Echo among other Martins-associated works, including Ash, Black and White, and Ecstatic Orange. Echo also received later critical attention. Anna Kisselgoff reviewed or discussed the ballet in the Sunday New York Times on 7 July 1991, demonstrating that the work remained part of dance criticism and repertory discussion after its premiere. Beyond that reference, the available material does not establish whether Echo has been revived regularly, transferred to other companies, recorded, toured, or retained in New York City Ballet's current active repertory. Its present status is therefore recorded as unknown rather than assumed to be active. As an encyclopedia subject, Echo is best understood as a named ballet and artistic work, not as a food, retail, or packaged-goods brand. The original industry input conflicts with the authoritative Wikipedia subject, so the classification has been corrected to the performing arts, specifically ballet. No independent corporation, trademark owner, commercial website, financial information, or executive structure is identified in the supplied sources.
- 1991
New York Times coverage
[1]Anna Kisselgoff addressed Echo in the Sunday New York Times on 7 July 1991.
- 1989
Premiere at Lincoln Center
[1]Echo premiered on 15 June 1989 at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City.
- 1989
Third Martins–Torke collaboration
[1]The ballet became the third collaboration between choreographer Peter Martins and composer Michael Torke, using Torke's Slate as its musical basis.
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A contemporary repertory ballet linking Peter Martins's choreography with Michael Torke's modernist score and presented within the New York City Ballet tradition.
Ballet · 1989
Echo
A contemporary ballet choreographed by Peter Martins for New York City Ballet and set to Michael Torke's Slate. It premiered in 1989 at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center and formed the third collaboration between Martins and Torke.
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Echo Acquires Minimus Assets[2]
Echo, a secure-by-default software infrastructure company, announced it has acquired key assets from Minimus following Minimus' decision to wind down operations, giving Minimus' technology and customers a path forward within Echo's hardened software platform.
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Amazon starts 48-hour Alexa device promotional sale in India[3]
Amazon kicked off a promotional sale in India offering discounts on Echo speakers, Fire TV devices, and other products. The sale was scheduled to end February 16 at 11:59 p.m. IST.
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Amazon discounts Echo devices and Kindle readers[4]
Amazon offered discounts on several Echo devices and Kindle readers, including the fourth-generation Echo for $60, the Echo Show 5 for $55, and the standard Kindle with ads for $50.
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Amazon announces Echo devices for Disney hotel rooms[5]
Amazon announced that its Echo listening devices would be placed in Disney hotel rooms the following year, enabling guests to request room-service items and ask for directions to a theme park.
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Amazon announces new Echo devices in India[6]
Amazon announced a new version of its Echo speakers at a global virtual event on Thursday. It began pre-booking the Echo Dot, Echo Dot with clock, and Echo at listed prices, with shipments planned for later in the year.
Weekdays and relative dates follow the original report; their exact calendar dates have not been verified.
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Amazon launches portable Echo speaker in India[7]
Amazon unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition, a battery-powered Echo speaker designed for India. It was priced at 5,999 Indian rupees, with an introductory price of 4,999 rupees; shipping was set to begin on December 18.
Reported
Amazon announces new smart-home devices[8]
At its annual event, Amazon announced new gadgets, including an Amazon Smart Oven, Echo Flex plug-in smart speaker and Echo Dot with a clock.
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- 1Echo (ballet)en.wikipedia.org
- 2Echo收购Minimus资产thefastmode.com
- 3Amazon 在印度推出为期 48 小时的 Alexa 设备促销deccanherald.com
- 4Amazon下调Echo装置及Kindle阅读器售价engadget.com
- 5亚马逊宣布将在迪士尼酒店客房部署 Echo 设备yahoo.com
- 6亚马逊宣布在印度推出新款 Echo 设备thehindubusinessline.com
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- 8Amazon 宣布推出新的智能家居设备digitalspy.com
- 9[图]仅供印度：亚马逊推出首款带电池的Echo便携式智能音箱tech.sina.com.cn
- 10Amazon unveils new 15-inch Echo Show and Astro, an at-home robotgsmarena.com
- 11As Amazon unveils new devices, global smart home spending to hit $100B this year - CNETcnet.com
- 12Astro: Amazon introduces new 'The Jetsons'-like robotfox5ny.com
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