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Here’s a photo of a very young Ben Vereen in a modern dance pose! This is from Go Down, Moses by Helen Tamiris. You’re probably used to seeing him more in musical theatre numbers! You know he won a Tony for Pippin in 1973 but did you know he was also nominated for a Tony […]

The tableaux in artist Karon Davis’ “Beauty Must Suffer” feel monumental—and acutely attuned to the complexities of life as a ballet dancer.

His brilliant dancing and magnetic presence wowed Broadway in “Ain’t Too Proud”; landed him the lead (which he eventually relinquished) of “MJ: The Musical”; and will be on display in the title role of Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover’s reimagined “Pal Joey” at New York City Center this month. But ask Ephraim Sykes for his story and he starts with, “My mother and father fell in love…” 

Garfield Lemonius vividly remembers the night he watched an ambulance drive away with one of his York University classmates after she fainted at a dance performance. He and several other dance students had taken the Toronto Transit Commission downtown to see a show, and that’s when his classmate—who he describes as a beautiful dancer struggling […]

Here are the latest promotions, appointments and transfers, plus notable awards and accomplishments from the last month. Comings & Goings Alejandro Cerrudo has been named Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first resident choreographer. Kyle Davis has been promoted to principal. Paris Opéra Ballet étoile Eleonora Abbagnato will give her final performance May 18. Manuel Legris has been […]

Broadway musicals have been on my mind for more than half a century. I discovered them in grade school, not in a theater but electronically. On the radio, every weeknight an otherwise boring local station would play a cast album in its entirety; on television, periodically Ed Sullivan’s Sunday night variety show would feature an […]

Pippin’s revival salutes Fosse’s smooth moves. Patina Miller leading Fosse’s “Manson Trio.” Photo: Michael J. Lutch, Courtesy ART. Chet Walker yields to no one in his reverence for the director/choreographer he still refers to as “Mr. Fosse.” And that’s why, when director Diane Paulus approached him about working on the current revival of Pippin, he […]

Bebe Neuwirth in All That Jazz at the 2005 CTFD gala.     From early training throughout their professional lives, dancers are flooded with information about everything from correct placement to audition techniques. But retirement—and what comes next—is a subject that used to be avoided. In 1985, Career Transition For Dancers started to fill in […]