"Choreography in Focus" with Matthew Neenan

July 31, 2014

Wendy Perron sits down with choreographer Matthew Neenan.

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What's New

a female instructor mid air while performing an assemble

Training

4 Secrets to Creating the Illusion of Weightlessness

Sophie Bress

Hope Boykin, a petite, curvy Black woman with a shaved head, gives the camera a mischievous, close-mouthed smile. Her palms are pressed together with her fingertips resting against her lips; her elbows are propped on her knees as she leans forward where she sits, arches popping against the floor. She wars white trousers and a denim button-down with the sleeves rolled to her elbows.

Cover Story

First As a Performer and Now As a Choreographer, Hope Boykin Has Nurtured Her Unique Voice

Courtney Celeste Spears

Andrea Miller stands beneath a large stretch of orange fabric. She uses one arm to hold it up over her head, the other to pull it down by her hip. A dancer standing beside her beneath the fabric mirrors the gesture.

News

Andrea Miller Premieres a New Take on a 100-Year-Old Nijinska Ballet at English National Ballet

Wendy Perron

A triptych of pages from the September 1973 issue of Dance Magazine. At left, a black and white image of a dancer in first arabesque en pointe in a flowing dress is washed purple, beneath text that reads, "Arpino and the Berkeley Ballets." At center, the black and white cover of that issue, featuring a close-up of a shirtless male dancer partnering a woman in parallel passé en pointe. To the right, the first page of text for the feature story, titled "Arpino and the Berkeley Ballets by Olga Maynard."

Dance History

TBT: Gerald Arpino on Creating His “Berkeley Ballets”

Courtney Escoyne