Big Dancing in Small Parks NEW YORK CITY SummerStage is back, offering free outdoor performances in all five boroughs. This month, the Francesca Harper Project performs Harper’s Modo Fusion: Art Prototype, a foray into the world of beauty pageants that fuses dance with music and film in the East River Park, Aug. 16. In a […]
Our top picks for 2013 Photo of Frances Chiaverini by Matthew Karas. Emily Kikta At 5′ 10″, Emily Kikta of New York City Ballet is hard to miss onstage. But in addition to her long lines, she stands out for the superb clarity of her dancing. In the corps of Balanchine’s poetic […]
Nice Work’s high-flying Robert Hartwell Hartwell takes off in the second act’s “Lady Be Good.” Photo by Joan Marcus, Courtesy Nice Work. Read Robert Hartwell’s eight-line bio in the Playbill for Nice Work If You Can Get It, and questions pile up. Plenty of Broadway dancers have college degrees, but magna […]
A quadruple threat soars in Broadway’s Spider-Man. As Ulla in The Producers at Kansas City’s Starlight Theatre. Photo by Starlight Theatre/Bob Compton Photography. In the opening number of Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, flaxen-haired girls fly out on shimmering yellow aerial silks. One particular set of endless legs, cashew feet, […]
Four dancers’ surprising audition stories On a Thursday night last spring, I sat in my weekly meditation class, listening as my teacher spoke about “infinite potential for change.” I’d heard the phrase before, but this time, my heart tingled with new understanding. I thought about how each person has the opportunity—at every moment—to redefine […]
A native of Anchorage, Alaska, John Heginbotham graduated from the Juilliard School in 1993 and joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1998. He has also danced with Susan Marshall, Pilobolus (as a guest artist), John Jasperse, and Ben Munisteri. Having taught many master classes on tour with MMDG, he now teaches […]
Who’s caught our eye for 2012 Photo of Rachel Van Buskirk by Matthew Karas. Ana Lopez The beauty of Ana Lopez’s dancing is that there is nothing extraneous or decorative about it, yet she invariably becomes a mesmerizing presence onstage. She draws you into her orbit with her scrubbed-clean technique and […]
Marriages Lauren Fadeley , Pennsylvania Ballet soloist, and Francis Veyette, PAB principal, were married in October in Florida. The couple first met at a photo shoot for The Rock School in 1997; Fadeley was just 12 and Veyette (the brother of New York City Ballet’s Andrew Veyette) was 17. They were paired together in a […]
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