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I’ve always found her quality of alertness something really special, but I know it’s more than that that makes her an amazing dancer. Last night Damian Woetzel hosted an evening of Wendy Whelan dancing and talking in a new series called “Studio 5 at City Center.” To see a dancer of Wendy’s caliber perform Balanchine, […]

With a few majestic leaps Gillian Murphy, ideally cast as the chief huntress Sylvia, spans the vast Metropolitan Opera stage, heralding her arrival with a posse of nymphs who have sworn off love in pursuit of freedom—a kind of Greek mythology of women’s lib. Of course, after three acts of spectacular dancing and hair-trigger partnering, […]

  Last night’s Opening Night Gala took a dive into the deep waters of new works, and surfaced in triumph. After the spring season of mostly looking back, tonight’s program showed how invested ABT is in choreographers of the future.   Alexei Ratmansky’s Seven Sonatas seemed to spring him loose from literal narrative (On the […]

Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly With Me Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff. Atlanta, GA. September 15-October 11, 2009. Reviewed by Wendy Perron   At her best, Tharp challenges extraordinary dancers to create extraordinary performances. This she has done in Come Fly With Me, her new “dansical” that could/should/might come to Broadway next season. She built the […]

    Ride the Momentum Four of the Twin Cities’ experimental dance artists come together for two weekends at The Southern Theater’s series, Momentum: New Dance Works. The choreographers all reveal glimpses into human behavior in one way or another. Vanessa Voskuil’s en masse explores gestural movements; Sachiko Nishiuchi’s piece, The Apple Tree, offers a […]

American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House, NYC. May 18–July 11, 2009 Reviewed by Lynn Garafola   With two repertory programs, six full-length ballets, and wildly cheering crowds, the eight-week American Ballet Theatre season at the Metropolitan Opera was in many ways business as usual. However, with Nina Ananiashvili’s farewell performance, the presence of exciting newcomers, […]

Fifteen years ago, Paloma Herrera was an 18-year-old American Ballet Theatre soloist who had audiences at her feet and critics showering praise. Her exhilaratingly polished debut as the ballerina in Balanchine’s challenging Theme and Variations led The New York Times’ Anna Kisselgoff to proclaim the young Argentine the “spirit of rebirth” at ABT.   Her […]

Keenan Kampa , one of DM’s 2012 “25 to Watch,” will join the Kirov (Maryinsky) Ballet as the company’s first American dancer in June 2012. The graduate of the Kirov’s Vaganova Academy is currently in her second year as a Boston Ballet corps member. —posted 1/18/2012   Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, principal dancers with […]