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I’ve made a horrible mistake! I decided to train at a prestigious dance academy outside of the U.S. after winning a scholarship. It was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Instead, it was toxic. My teacher was right out of the Stone Age, making me work in pain and criticizing the tiniest mistakes. Now I’m […]

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 […]

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet The Joyce Theater, NYC February 17–22, 2009 Reviewed by Wendy Perron   Photo by Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy ASFB. Samantha Klanac, Katie Dehler, and Lauren Alzamor, “shape-shifting from scared children to cutie pies to rebels” in Itzik Galili’s Chameleon. This chamber-sized company is definitely not staying in its chamber but going out […]

Boston Ballet Wang Theatre, Boston, MA February 12–15, 2009 Reviewed by Theodore Bale   Photo by Gene Schiavone, courtesy Boston Ballet. Kathleen Breen Combes and Sabi Varga in No More Play.   JiÅ™i Kylián’s five ballets gathered under the evening-length rubric Black and White are already familiar classics in Europe. Nederlands Dans Theater premiered the […]

BalletMet Columbus artistic director Gerard Charles will become the ballet master of the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago this July. Charles served as the head of BalletMet for over a decade and has been with the company for 26 years. He will continue to work with BalletMet in order to launch its 2012–13 season this August. […]

Margot Fonteyn danced to 60. Rudolph Nureyev into his 50s. Martha Graham retired from the stage at 75. More recently, in 1999 to be exact, Mikhail Baryshnikov, then 50, and Merce Cunningham, then 80, performed together at the Lincoln Center Festival.   The rock stars of the dance world may be justified in their long […]

When describing the way Alejandro Cerrudo moves onstage, “loose” is the operative word. He’s like a silky paintbrush that has been dipped in black ink and then swept, free-form, across a white page.   This has something to do with the dancer’s physique, of course—his lanky, boyish body with its long, lean torso and slender […]

Holland Dance Festival Various Venues, Den Hague, Holland October 30–November 18, 2007 Reviewed by Victoria Looseleaf With 60 performances of 25 different productions over three weeks, including a number of world and European premieres, the 11th edition of the biannual Holland Dance Festival, directed by Samuel Wuersten, soared—literally—with its opening night offering, Alas (Wings). Performed […]