George Balanchine famously said, “there are no mothers-in-law in ballet.” Well, fifteen minutes into “Of Love and Rage,” Alexei Ratmansky’s...
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Faye Arthurs is a former ballet dancer with New York City Ballet. She chronicled her time as a professional dancer in her blog Thoughts from the Paint. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from Fordham University. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their sons.
I have often wondered why few troupes revive the classic story ballets the way Orson Welles restaged Shakespeare—as when he...
It’s hard to explain the School of American Ballet’s annual Workshop performances to outsiders. Workshop is a year-end ballet recital,...
The first time the scope of Balanchine’s Stravinsky Festival hit me, it was physical; I recognized it in my dancing...
I had the pleasure of interviewing Janie Taylor, my close friend of 25 years, in advance of the L.A. Dance...
When I heard that Karole Armitage had packaged her latest creations as “A Pandemic Notebook,” I was intrigued. What exactly...
