Feeling the Rush Universities let students sample life and dance in NYC. By Jen Peters The Big Apple, The City that Never Sleeps, NYC: Whatever the nickname, New York City is known for its influence on the arts—especially dance. Jumping straight into the concrete jungle for college, though, can be overwhelming. The price tag […]
Moving with Mantsoe Diabolical. Convulsive. Entertaining. Vincent Mantsoe, the Johannesburg-born dancer/sorcerer and 2004 “25 to Watch” draws from world dance forms ranging from African to Balinese to ballet. His five-member, Paris-based company performs SAN, set to Middle Eastern music that combines the traditional dances of Mantsoe’s native South Africa with modern street […]
New Role After 20 years at the helm of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza, choreographer Nacho Duato assumes a new role in January as director of St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet, formerly the Maly Ballet. Over the years Duato’s ongoing conflicts with Spain’s Ministry of Culture have made headlines. Earlier in 2010 the Ministry […]
Diavolo The Hollywood Bowl • Hollywood, CA • September 9, 2010 Reviewed by Victoria Looseleaf Terpsichore herself may have held her breath during much of the world premiere of Fearful Symmetries. Choreographed by Diavolo’s artistic director Jacques Heim, the opus, set to the relentless throbbings of John Adams’ 28-minute minimalist score and […]
They’ve got ballet in their blood. Colleen Neary has been dancing since she was 8; her husband, Thordal Christensen, since he was 6. Today, the couple is on a mission: to bring ballet to the cultural masses of Los Angeles, a town not known to be pointe-shoe–friendly. Having founded Los Angeles Ballet in 2006, the […]
Meet 2010’s showstoppers William Wingfield and Whitney Jensen, two of our 2010 “25 to Watch.” Photo by Matthew Karas. Robert Fairchild If there was ever a crush-worthy ballet boy, it’s 22-year-old Robert Fairchild. A new principal with New York City Ballet, Fairchild beckons the viewer with innocent, pool-like dark eyes and […]
It’s a leap of faith—starting a dance career anywhere, that is. But it’s a common occurrence in Atlanta, where skyscrapers poke up out of the lush forest canopy, and highways carve through foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The country’s second-fastest growing metropolis, this southern city is home base for an increasing number of dancers […]
@lulawashington “I’ll Facebook message you my Twitter name.” Ten years ago, this sentence would have been meaningless. Today, however, we use social networking sites on a daily basis. Lula Washington explores this theme in her newest piece, WWW.CONNECTING.2010, which the Lula Washington Dance Theatre will debut at Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ, from […]
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