Dancing a Legacy
A celebrated performer, educator and arts leader, Christopher Charles McDaniel, who was born in 1992 in East Harlem, New York, fell in love with ballet at age seven and has never looked back.
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Doug Varone is known for the masterful way he moves groups of people around onstage, yet he may have outdone himself in his latest work, “To My Arms/Restore.” With musicians of New York Baroque Incorporated, six vocalists, and a choir of 100 voices conducted by Tony Award-winning Ted Sperling, the two-part evening achieves a blending of movement and music so seamless there are times you might swear the dancers are singing.
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A celebrated performer, educator and arts leader, Christopher Charles McDaniel, who was born in 1992 in East Harlem, New York, fell in love with ballet at age seven and has never looked back.
PlusA nearly 200-year-old story is having a moment. “Eugene Onegin,” the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin, which published in 1833, has made its way to countless stages in ballet and opera adaptations in the past few months—the most recent being American Ballet Theatre’s production of “Onegin,” the John Cranko ballet, which was originally created for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965.
PlusIn early June, the Scottish Ballet came to Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, with “Mary, Queen of Scots” for a run of five performances.
PlusTwenty years on from its beginnings, Croí Glan, meaning “clear heart” in Irish, has been a leading voice in integrated dance in Ireland.
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