Like the satin of new pointe shoes or a flaming Firebird costume, makeup helps create stage magic. From flesh-toned innocence to provocative, kohl-lined eyes, it can enhance natural features or transform a woman into a fantastical creature. Even though the effect is undeniable, the steps between mirror and stage are often glossed over, as habit […]
Celebrating our anniversary isn’t only about where we’ve come from, but where we’re heading. We asked some of the creative thinkers in our field to look into their crystal ball and predict the future of dance. Here they share their visions— some realistic, some utopian, and some tongue-in-cheek. Karole Armitage artistic director, Armitage Gone! Dance […]
Luz San Miguel opens the door, welcoming me into her home with a sweeping gesture that might be called a domesticated port de bras. Her strikingly petite body seems to almost hum with energy—a human lightning rod. It’s one week after the close of San Miguel’s second season with Milwaukee Ballet, a season she ended […]
How does it feel to be 15? Ask Rennie Harris, whose hip hop dance company, Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM), celebrates its “quincearos” this month at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. “Prince” was Harris’s street name as an adolescent growing up in North Philadelphia; “ScareKrow” stuck with him later on. Despite the tags attached to its practitioners, hip […]
In Spanish, “delgado” can mean either slim or smart. Both connotations fit the Delgado sisters, Jeannette and Patricia, who dance with the Miami City Ballet. Trained in the MCBÂ School, they represent a new breed of home-grown talent, able to move from classical to neoclassical to contemporary roles. Both sisters claim mutual support for each […]
Some choreographers have their own companies; some work on a freelance basis. Some are resident choreographers with a ballet company; others do some combination of the above. Dance Magazine sent a team of interviewers to pose three questions to 15 choreographers: How do you begin making a dance? How do you use your dancers and what […]
Hard work, as much as talent, makes Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Alison Roper a star. Alison Roper, wearing black tights and rehearsal tutu, feet fluttering in agitated bourrées, extends her pleading, yearning arms toward fellow principal Artur Sultanov. On the second day of rehearsal for Oregon Ballet Theatre’s new Swan Lake, Roper already expresses […]
To fly into Tbilisi, Georgia, you must land in pitch dark in the middle of the night. (Night air space is cheaper.) Even so, the crowd welcoming passengers boils up outside the airport’s glass walls—waving, gesticulating, soundlessly shouting. When you launch yourself into the town the next morning, your taxi and the other cars speed […]
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