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I saw a completely different side of a few dancers at the gala last night at City Center. Gillian Murphy, who’s been a beautiful but sometimes steely superwoman—her double triple fouetees are scarily dependable—performed Juliet in Tudor’s Romeo and Juliet. She did bedroom scene (the farewell to Romeo) (which is a rather restrained version if […]

Kee-Juan Han’s students grace stages across the country and abroad. Among them is American Ballet Theatre’s stately David Hallberg, who studied with Han at the School of Arizona Ballet. Han assimilated the Vaganova method from mentor Lin Yee Goh while dancing with the Goh Ballet in Canada. A former principal with the Indianapolis Ballet and […]

Septime Webre, artistic director of The Washington Ballet, blazes across the local scene, frequently bounding in front of the curtain to introduce his programs. He’s a very public presence and a fixture on the social circuit, always upbeat, sometimes controversial. He shepherded his group in a successful, highly publicized visit to Cuba in 2000, mounted […]

“Stars of the 21st Century” New York State Theater, NYC February 11, 2008 Reviewed by Nicole Dekle Collins Introducing audience members to dancers they’ve never seen is surely one of the raisons d’être of a gala program like “Stars of the 21st Century,” in which principal dancers from companies around the world converge for a […]

Paloma Herrera in Le Corsaire Photo by Gene Schiavone, courtesy ABT American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY May 23–July 16, 2005 Reviewed by Clive Barnes   The gala marking the opening of American Ballet Theatre’s spring season (and this year the company’s 65th anniversary), for all its glamour, remained essentially a family […]

We all know dance careers are temporary. But this season, it feels like we’re saying goodbye to more stars than usual. Many have turned to social media to share their last curtain calls, thoughts on what it feels like to say farewell to performing, and insights into the ways that dancing has made them who […]

You never quite know what’s going to happen when Natalia Osipova steps onstage—you know you’re in for something extraordinary, but the exact nature of what you’ll get is a mystery until it’s happening. It’s only fitting, then, that we would learn of Force of Nature, a new documentary following a year of the ballet superstar’s […]