Talk about a radical retelling of a classic story! In Benjamin Millepied’s...
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Recently I reviewed Ballet for Life, a benefit gala organised by Iana...
The Telstra Ballet Dancer Award is an annual competition that recognises rising...
The genre of Noh theater and dance exists in our time thanks...
When Jared Angle retired from New York City Ballet this past January...
Kenneth MacMillan created the short expressionist ballet “Sea of Troubles” in the...
Northern Ballet’s critically-acclaimed adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” now in its tenth...
Hovering over her on all fours, the man looks into the woman...
Broadway Bodies is dedicated to “anyone who has ever been told they...
In an extended phone interview, I had the pleasure of posing question...
As a choreographer and dancer who conceives and directs experimental performance, Dominican-born,...
In 2014, five years before writer Toni Morrison passed away, Princeton University...
“It’s amazing!” she gushed. “I’m loving every minute. It’s been busy, exciting...
It’s been a good year for women leading ballet companies: In the...
In her latest book, Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet...
Talk about a radical retelling of a classic story! In Benjamin Millepied’s “Romeo & Juliet Suite,” performed by members of LA Dance Project, the troupe he founded in 2012, there are three casts playing the title roles: a traditional heterosexual couple, two men, and two women. And, as if that...
Kenneth MacMillan created the short expressionist ballet “Sea of Troubles” in the late 1980s. The work draws on Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, and its central theme is Hamlet’s mental state following the suspected murder of his father, the King. As in many of MacMillan’s creations, an exploration of darker aspects of...
As a choreographer and dancer who conceives and directs experimental performance, Dominican-born, Florida-raised Ligia Lewis is not shy about expressing her opinions, whether in an interview, on stage, or in real life. Indeed, with her most recent work, “A Plot/A Scandal,” which has its U.S. premiere in Los Angeles at...
Recently I reviewed Ballet for Life, a benefit gala organised by Iana Salenko, prima ballerina at the Staatsballett Berlin. After the war in Ukraine began, the Kyiv-born dancer felt the urgency to do something to support her native country, especially for the children affected by the atrocities of war. The...
Northern Ballet’s critically-acclaimed adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” now in its tenth year, is back on May 16th at Sadler’s Wells. With superb choreography from David Nixon CBE, audiences are sure to be dazzled by their highly visual, pulse-raising production, which promises to go deep into the scandals, decadence, wild...
In 2014, five years before writer Toni Morrison passed away, Princeton University acquired a collection of the luminary’s personal papers, letters, and manuscripts. The goal behind the collection (known as the Toni Morrison Papers) is to inspire original creations across genres; a more forward-thinking approach than simply cultivating research on...
The Telstra Ballet Dancer Award is an annual competition that recognises rising talent within the Australian Ballet. Each year, a handful of nominees have the chance to win the Rising Star, or People’s Choice Award, accolades respectively accompanied by a purse of $25,000 and $15,000. Telstra has been a longtime...
Hovering over her on all fours, the man looks into the woman as if he’s caught his own reflection. Cradled on the floor, she has nestled her feet into his chest. Slowly, without breaking eye contact, the man begins an ascension to standing. The woman extends her legs, and it...
“It’s amazing!” she gushed. “I’m loving every minute. It’s been busy, exciting and there’s a lot of momentum.” That’s Hope Muir, artistic director of National Ballet of Canada, whose appointment to the company was announced in 2021, and who took the reins in January of last year. Succeeding Karen Kain,...
The genre of Noh theater and dance exists in our time thanks to important contributions by two nineteenth-century Americans. The first you’ll know. The story goes that when President and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant toured the world after Grant had left office, they visited Japan, where, as the former American...
Broadway Bodies is dedicated to “anyone who has ever been told they were too fat, too short, too gay, too disabled, and otherwise too much or not enough to be in a musical.” The book, written by musical theater scholar Ryan Donovan, examines the ways different aspects of identity have...
It’s been a good year for women leading ballet companies: In the recent past, Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell took the reins at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago; Tamara Rojo became the first female artistic director of San Francisco Ballet in the troupe’s 89-year history; and Jodie Gates is leading Cincinnati Ballet into a...
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