“Apollo” is about poetry, poetry in the sense of a brilliant, sensuous, daring, and powerful activity of our nature ....
In an essay, “Grandmother Spider,” writer Rebecca Solnit describes a painting by Ana Teresa Fernandez. The painting shows an image...
Overall it must be questioned whether ballet is the right medium for a biographical tribute. Ballet by the limits of...
“It always wants something more of me,” Belinda McGuire said to me with a grin a few days before the opening of her solo performance, “Waltz Slaughterhouse Requiem.” Something true of dance, I thought, and perhaps especially true for solo work. McGuire's performance of her own choreography, a personal reflection, “Slaughterhouse/Requiem” was highly original and impressive, and is one of my highlights of the year in dance.
“I’m a choreographer because I’m interested in connecting with people, in connecting to audiences, and in connecting with people I’ve...
Guillaume Côté’s new ballet, “Being and Nothingness” made its premiere alongside two-thirds of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy.” Two quite different...
