The Mahabharata: A Timeless Retelling
Why Not Theatre’s bold, multidisciplinary adaptation of the Mahabharata drew a rapt audience at Lincoln Center’s vibrant summer arts festival “Summer for the City.”
PlusWorld-class review of ballet and dance.
The ballets of George Balanchine are a window into the company he, with the help and support of Lincoln Kirstein, created three quarters of a century ago. The fact that they and the company are still here is a kind of miracle if one thinks of the short afterlife of most ballets. How lucky we are that the two men met, and that Kirstein convinced Balanchine to try his luck in New York.
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Why Not Theatre’s bold, multidisciplinary adaptation of the Mahabharata drew a rapt audience at Lincoln Center’s vibrant summer arts festival “Summer for the City.”
PlusStephen Petronio has an odd way of celebrating his 40th anniversary. He and his board have decided this season will be the company’s last.
PlusWashington, D.C.’s 100° June weather wasn’t the only thing generating heat in the city. Chamber Dance Project’s 11th annual D.C. summer season production, “Red Angels,” produced its own scorching intensity as one of this summer’s early triumphs.
PlusA ballet body is essentially a deformed body. The older and more experienced the dancer, the more evident–and beautiful–this deformation is.
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Thank you for commenting on the floppy tutus in Symphony in C. They get in the way of a dancers beautiful line, especially in the second movement.