Today’s dancers are getting younger and more technically dazzling, coming from the jump-higher-turn-faster school of ballet. Indeed, “So You Think You Can Dance,” where the 90-second “contemporary” swaggerfest lives, springs to mind. But the question remains: Are these brave young terpsichores also more artistic or is it merely a surface thing?
Benjamin Millepied—known in the ballet world for his 16 years at New York City Ballet and recent tenure as director...
The dancers and musicians gather on the stage, the chorus of their voices rising through the auditorium. There’s a Middle...
True to its mission of being an artistic collective, and loosely based on the principles of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, where...
A full house turned out for the opening night of Natalia Osipova’s new contemporary programme at Sadler’s Wells, a tingle...
Reuniting two separated siblings, opera and ballet, was Benjamin Millepied and Stéphane Lissner’s mantra. And so they did. The premiere...