Long before he was criss-crossing the globe as a member of American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet, David Hallberg was a student at the School of Ballet Arizona, where he began his formal training at age 13. Now, the Phoneix, AZ–based company has launched a new scholarship program for young male dancers in Hallberg’s […]
Dance people around the world are horrified by yesterday’s acid attack on Sergei Filin. I don’t know why this happened but I do know that Sergei Filin is a man of integrity, taste, wit, and dedication. You can see all these things from my interview with him in our January issue. Sergei Filin at […]
An exclusive interview Vyacheslav Lopatin and Anastasia Stashkevich in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. Photo by Damir Yusupov, Courtesy Bolshoi. A former star of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin, has been artistic director of the company for almost two years. Trained at the Boshoi Academy, he joined the company upon graduation and became a principal […]
It’s almost time to announce the new class of “25 to Watch,” one of our favorite Dance Magazine features of the year. In choosing the annual list of 25 standout artists and companies, we ask our contributing writers and senior advising editors to identify who is on the verge of a breakthrough, who has all […]
This year, a single performance stood out as gut-wrenching and unforgettable: Nadia Beugré, from Cote d’Ivoire, delivered an almost unbearably compelling solo titled Quartiers Libres, wherein pleasure and pain, freedom and oppression, intermingled. It was part of the Voices of Strength tour from Africa that stopped at New York Live Arts. When Beugré gradually stuffed […]
Sixteen years ago, a 10-year-old girl started to dream about one day dancing Swan Lake on the New York stage just as her idol, Natalia Makarova, had done in 1976. That 10-year-old girl was me. Little did I know that nine years later, my dream would come true, and on the exact same stage as […]
The ballet world can feel cozily included in American culture when the Kennedy Center honorees include Natalia Makarova next to Dustin Hoffman and David Letterman. If it doesn’t make her a household name, it brings ballet closer to American families. There’s been a string of tributes to the great ballerina lately. Ours was in the […]
How does Alexei Ratmansky keep up with all of his commissions? We’re beginning to think that he has a secret clone. Let’s see: thus far in 2012, he’s made Symphonic Dances for Miami City Ballet, Firebird for American Ballet Theatre, and, running now in Denmark, Golden Cockerel for Royal Danish Ballet, which is by all […]
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