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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“We are in a shambles.” This is the headline statement for Catherine Young’s touring work “Ciseach | An Embodied Manifesto” which will make its way through Ireland at a time when it is perhaps needed most.
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Perhaps best known for touring with New York City Ballet associate artistic director Wendy Whelan in her show “Restless Creature,” Joshua Beamish grew up dancing in his Canadian hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, founding his own company when he was just 17.
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Meryl Tankard is somewhat of an Aussie dance legend. A choreographer of international renown, her works have been mounted and premiered on prestigious companies ranging from Royal Ballet of Flanders and NDT III in Europe, to the Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company in her homeland.
Continue ReadingLong 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.
Continue ReadingIt 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.
Continue ReadingAs 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.
Continue ReadingOne 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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