Take… Taken… Taking… | Alan Obuzor & Texture Contemporary Ballet….
Texture Contemporary Ballet Being a victim of this arduous winter I have seen little dance, in fact I’ve seen little of anything being too cold to venture out into the arctic freeze. Yet, hearing that...
View ArticleTom Gold Dance at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College…
Tom Gold Dance in Tom Gold’s “La Plage”. Photo: Eugene Gologursky Without a doubt Tom Gold is a choreographer with a lot of promise. His choreography is intrinsically musical; it flows through and...
View ArticleChristopher-Jean Maillot’s LAC (after Swan Lake) & Les Ballets de Monte Carlo...
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s Anja Behrend in Christopher-Jean Maillot’s LAC (after Swan Lake). Photo: Alice Blanger Re-working a classic story ballet such as Swan Lake is a risk, a great risk, but...
View ArticleBalletNext 2014 Spring Master Classes….
$30 Master Class $70 Three-class Series 10:15am – 12pm Advanced & Professional Dancers Sunday April 6: Michele Wiles Michele Wiles Artistic Director of BalletNext and former principal dancer with...
View ArticleMichele Wiles & Drew Jacoby performing Mauro Bigonzetti’s “La Follia”….
La Follia Dancers: Michele Wiles & Drew Jacoby Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti Music: Vivaldi. Performance from the inaugural event presented by Ballet Next at The Joyce Theater Nov. 2011, New York...
View ArticleConstellation: Alonzo King Lines Ballet at the Joyce, 2014….
Michael Montgomery, Ricardo Zayas, Keelan Whitmore & Ashely Jackson in Alonzo King’s “Constellation”. Photo by Margo Moritz. Alonzo King’s Constellation is a much different program than that...
View ArticleIn the Garden of Souls – Revisited | Ballet NY at the Ailey Citigroup...
Ballet NY’s Jessica Lawrence, Amy Saunder & Katie Gibson (left to right) in Margot Parson’s ‘Dreams’: Photo by Eduardo Patino Ballet NY is the brainchild of two of the greatest dancers of their...
View ArticleFourth Annual Dance Against Cancer: An Evening to Benefit the American Cancer...
Fourth Annual Dance Against Cancer An Evening to Benefit the American Cancer Society Monday, May 5, 2014 7pm AXA Equitable Theater 787 Seventh Ave., NYC Ballet Hispanico performing Nacho Duarte’s...
View ArticleThe 2014 Youth America Grand Prix “Stars of Today Meet the Star of Tomorrow...
2014 YAGP Grand Prix winner Cesar Corrales, age 17, in Variation from Don Quixote. Photo by Siggul/VAM. Every year some of the most world’s most gifted dancers converge upon New York City in order to...
View ArticleThe Joyce Theater Foundation presents Ballet Preljocaj in Angelin Preljocaj’s...
There has been a radical shift in ballet, a change of attitude, where nothing is sacrosanct. Gone are the days when the great White Ballets…Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty… were just that…ballets...
View ArticleThe Caprice of Squirrel & Hummingbirds| Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater….
Cincinnati Ballet in Val Caniparoli’s “Caprice”. Photo: Amy Harris After a 35-year absence, Cincinnati Ballet, led by Artistic Director Victoria Morgan, made its Joyce Theater debut featuring three New...
View ArticleStars of the Dance World Help Fight Cancer | 4th Annual Dance Against Cancer…
Clifton Brown in Fredrick Earl Mosley’s ‘Dedications (Except)’ for the 4th Annual Dance Against Cancer. Photo: Christopher Duggan For the last four years 150 dancers from 20 companies have been seen in...
View ArticleLeonard Ajkun’s Revolution | Akjun Ballet at MMAC…
Leonard Ajkun’s ‘Revolution’ & the Akjun Ballet at MMAC. Photo: Rachel Neville I am a big science-fiction buff…well, geek really…I practically live for the stuff…diligently watch TV’s Continuum and...
View ArticleAlicia Amatriain & Jason Reilly in Itzik Galili’s “Mona Lisa”….
MONA LISA Choreography: Itzik Galili Musical concept & composition: Thomas Höfs with Itzik Galili Costumes: Natasja Lansen World premiere: February 22, 2003, Stuttgart Ballet Dancers: Alicia...
View ArticleLeart Duraku’s “La Table D’Ehpysis” | Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo….
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Choreography: Leart Duraku Dancers: Beatriz Uhalte Cisneros, Anjara Ballesteros,George Oliveira, Christian Tworzyanski, Alexis Oliveira, Daniele Delvecchio & Ediz Erguc....
View ArticleThe Prickly Point of Existentialism | The Boston Ballet & Alexander Ekman’s...
Boston Ballet’s Whitney Jensen & Jeffrey Cirio Alexander Ekman’s “Cacti” Photo: ©Rosalie O’Connor When the curtain opens for the Alexander Ekman’s “Cacti”, part of Program 2 of the Boston Ballet’s...
View ArticleBoston Ballet’s 50th Anniversary at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater…
Boston Ballet’s John Lam in Forsythe’s The Second Detail. Photo: Gene Schiavone The Boston Ballet, led by its Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen pulled out all the stops for the 50th Anniversary Season...
View ArticleSwans, Swans & More Swans | The Bolshoi Ballet, Swan Lake & the Lincoln...
Anna Nikulina & Artem Ovcharenko in the Bolshoi Ballet’s “Swan Lake” presented by Lincoln Center Festival 2014. Photo: Stephanie Berger I was like a kid let loss in a candy store when I took my...
View ArticleMinasty Copeland | I Will What I Want….
Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in San Pedro, California, Misty Copeland began her ballet studies at the age of 13 at the San Pedro Dance Center. At the age of fifteen she won first place in...
View ArticleThe Mikhailovsky Ballet of St. Petersburg at the David H. Koch Theater Nov...
Four Programs in Two Week With Live Orchestra The Mikhailovsky Ballet’s Natalia Osipova & Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote. Photo: Stas Levshin Ardani Artist presents for the first time in the United...
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