Dancing with Soul, Stanton Welch
Born in 1969 to a pair of gifted dancers—Marilyn Jones and Garth Welch—in Melbourne, Australia, it only seemed natural that their son, Stanton Welch, would follow in his parents’ balletic footsteps.
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Directing Dance Umbrella
When London’s Dance Umbrella festival launched in 1978, its future was uncertain. Would festival-goers and funders love or loathe the radical contemporary dance it presented?
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Cinderella Reimagined
This winter, the UK premiere of “Cinderella” is being brought to vivid life in a new production by Northern Ballet.
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The Dancer's Duty
Cell phones and motorcycle headlights illuminated the stage at the Teatro América during a recent performance of the ballet company ProDanza. When the music also failed, audience members joined dancers in singing along, ensuring the show could go on.
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A Georgian Swan Lake
Nina Ananiashvili was still thrilling audiences as an exceptional ballerina when, in 2004, she got a call from Georgia’s newly elected president, Mikheil Saakashvili.
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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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Taking Heart
Twenty 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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Self-Portrait in the Making
Now in its second year, the Tate Modern’s Infinities Commission is awarded to a contemporary practitioner whose work proposes radical ways of thinking about performance, installation and time-based art.
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La Vanguardista
There’s few artists you can truly label as iconoclastic within any discipline, let alone dance, but when discussing Rocio Molina few other labels seem to fit the bill.
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Echoes of the Studio
In rehearsal, Dionne Figgins is exacting. She has an eagle eye as she runs choreography in short sections, making sure each detail is accounted for.
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Writing the Book on Buddy Bradley
Near the end of her illuminating book on choreographer Buddy Bradley, Maureen Footer discusses Bradley’s work on Cecil Landau’s revue “Sauce Tartare.”
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Crossing the Cultural Divide
Growing up in British Columbia’s Okanagan region with two mothers, the Canadian choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe learned about the European side of his heritage, participating in Ukrainian folk dance from age six.
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Firebird Rising
Long before the dancers take the stage, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s season at New York City Center feels like one of the most energizing cultural events of the spring.
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Rare Birds
It is rare for George Balanchine’s grand, bedazzled “Symphony in C” to open a program. Its champagne-popping finale for 52 dancers tends to be a nightcap.
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The Spring is Blooming festival, by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, now in its fifth year, has become a highlight of the spring dance circuit.
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Jack of Hearts
As the audience come to their feet at the end of this ballet there is a noted difference to be seen on stage. Three women stand with joined hands, taking their call as the romantic leads of a loud and proud lesbian ballet.
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School Report
One of San Francisco Ballet’s greatest assets is its home venue, the Beaux-Arts style War Memorial Opera House, with four rings of seating that require performers to project their energies practically to the exosphere.
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