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Feng-Yi Sheu Taking Up the Mantle of Martha “Go at your audience with a whip,” Louis Horst used to tell Martha Graham. When the Martha Graham Dance Company came to City Center last April, its second New York season since winning back the rights to its own repertory, the whip was in one body: Fang-Yi […]

Marcelo Gomes is the guy all the girls want to dance with.     In a studio at American Ballet Theatre headquarters in Manhattan, principal dancers Marcelo Gomes and Julie Kent greet each other with a hug and peck on each cheek as Gomes asks about his pal William, Kent’s 2-year-old son. Moments later the […]

We never dance alone onstage. That’s what Isadora Duncan said—she danced with the ocean, the wind, the earth. Whether or not you go for that kind of romance with nature, learning to dance with a partner deepens your artistry as a performer. Sure it’s great to do a solo and soak up all the audience’s […]

Frederick Ashton’s ballets remain scarce in the repertoires of most American companies. That makes American Ballet Theatre’s U.S. premiere of his full-length Sylvia this month particularly welcome. Believed lost for more than 50 years, the reconstruction opened to enthusiastic reviews last fall at The Royal Ballet as part of its Ashton centenary celebrations. “It’s Ashton’s […]

In this version, Prince Siegfried falls in love with Odette at night, when she is still a maiden, and he witnesses her dawn transformation into a swan at the hands of the vengeful Rothbart. (Much use is made of his billowing cape.) As a girl, Odette wears a long, white gown, and the flowing partnering […]

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 […]

While Ballet in Cinema has brought us some spectacular performances from Moscow, Paris, London, and Holland, the distributor has partnered with Youth America Grand Prix for an evening of ballet that’s a bit closer to home. On Sunday, March 31 (with an encore on Tuesday, April 2), “Ballet’s Greatest Hits: YAGP Gala” is coming to […]