Show and Tell
The Guggenheim Museum’s beloved behind-the-scenes New York dance series, Works & Process, was founded in 1984 by philanthropist Mary Sharp Cronson.
PlusWorld-class review of ballet and dance.
Choreography, for many, is a mystical art, and one that needs bodies on which to create movement. So, when the pandemic forced a lockdown in 2020, Alonzo King, artistic director and co-founder of the San Francisco-based Alonzo King Lines Ballet, did what he does best, albeit under far different circumstances: He worked inside the troupe’s studios, but in confined bubbles; he sculpted his dancers’ bodies outside at Golden Gate Park; and, among other places, he fashioned forms on a farm in Arizona, all in order to build work for the company’s 40th anniversary.
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The Guggenheim Museum’s beloved behind-the-scenes New York dance series, Works & Process, was founded in 1984 by philanthropist Mary Sharp Cronson.
PlusThe late Alvin Ailey famously set his sights on creating “the kind of dance that could be done for the man on the streets, the people.”
PlusFew dance companies would dare to put such disparate pieces together. But such is the audacious, experimental spirit of Scottish Ballet.
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