Nanette Glushak & Michel Rahn

With new Co-Artistic Directors Nanette Glushak and Michel Rahn directing the Company in 1985, Fort Worth Ballet began to model its artistic programming after New York City Ballet and the Balanchine aesthetic. Glushak and Rahn agreed that Mr. Balanchine's works "physically show off the company in the best way." Fort Worth Ballet began their first professional season with eighteen dancers, and though Balanchine works were to be the foundation of the repertory, adding works by other first-rate choreographers such as Kylian, Glen Tetley, and Anthony Tudor became an additional artistic goal for the Company. During their reign as Co-Artistic Directors, Glushak and Rahn added six new works to the repertory and expanded their company of dancers from eighteen to twenty-three.