Carolina Ballet Carolina Ballet Carolina Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1997 which performs primarily in Raleigh, North Carolina and throughout the state. It has toured to New York City, Hungary and China. Robert Weiss, the artistic director, danced for George Balanchine for sixteen years at New York City Ballet and attained the rank of principal dancer. Lynne Taylor-Corbett is principal guest choreographer. One of Carolina Ballet's most popular performances, The Nutcracker, is performed annually. Carolina Ballet currently has about 35 dancers. Carolina Ballet, Inc. was founded in 1984 as Raleigh Dance Theatre, Inc. by Ann Vorus, owner of the Raleigh
City of New York (1885 ship) City of New York (1885 ship) The City of New York was a steam barquentine best known for being Richard E. Byrd's flagship on his 1928–30 exploration of Antarctica, mistakenly for the rescue of Shackleton in 1915, and most infamously for possibly being the ship that failed to come to the aid of the "Titanic" in 1912. Her name was changed several times; originally named "Samson" (1885–1914), she was renamed the "Jacobsen" (1915–1919), and then the "Belsund" (1919–1926), and back to "Samsun" (1926–1928), before being finally dubbed the "City of New York" in 1928. As built, the ship was long,