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Every dancer has bad performances. But what do you do when your worst fears—forgetting choreography, running into the scrim, falling feet over tutu—come true in front of a packed house? Six dancers reveal some of their worst moments, and how they’ve learned to let them go.     Kara Wilkes Alonzo King LINES Ballet   […]

ABT principal Hee Seo, who is prominently featured on ABT’s YouTube channel, at our 2013 cover shoot. Photo by Nathan Sayers. Anniversaries are a time to look back, but they’re also a time to push forward. This year, American Ballet Theatre celebrates 75 years. And with the season, the company has (finally!) created its own […]

For us dance folk, the end of a season doesn’t just mean the start of summer vacation. It’s also the time of year for hirings, firings and promotions. American Ballet Theatre just announced a handful of dancers who are climbing its ranks. Soloist Isabella Boylston, who took on a significant number of lead roles this […]

ABT’s Isadora Loyola, Skylar Brandt, and Cassandra Trenary in Gaité Parisienne. Photo by Fabrizio Ferri.     After a week of high-flying Don Quixotes, there’s much to look forward to in American Ballet Theatre’s eight-week season at the Met. Of course, exquisite principals and guest artists will be dancing classics like Swan Lake and Giselle. […]

You can see that onstage and you can see that in their awareness of others less fortunate.   After the recent typhoon’s destruction in the Philippines was all over the news, Ashley Bouder, New York City Ballet’s firecracker principal, decided to help in the way that dancers can help—by dancing. She organized New York Artists […]

We’ve Been Waiting for This ON TOUR:   When Akram Khan premiered DESH in England two years ago, our reviewer, Donald Hutera, wrote that “Khan’s stunning production feels like a culmination of everything this gifted British-Bangladeshi choreographer has been striving for.” Fascinating for his kathak-infused movement, whether helicopter-fast or mesmerizingly slow, Khan time-travels in this […]

American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House New York, NY May 31–June 3, 2013   At right: Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomes in Ratmansky’s Symphony #9. Photo by Marty Sohl, Courtesy ABT.     Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy,” the most anticipated ballet premiere of the New York season, met lofty expectations. The choreographer, artist in residence […]

What’s one thing that American Ballet Theatre dancers Marcelo Gomes and Isabella Boylston have in common with NYCB’s new soloist Ashley Laracey? They studied at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida. And they’re not the only ones. Other dancers, including Houston Ballet’s Sara Webb, San Francisco Ballet’s James Sofranko, and former Pennsylvania Ballet principal […]