Recently, the ballet world seems to be owning up to the fact that it’s got a female choreographer problem. Some companies have started devoting entire evenings to works by women, while others are incorporating female choreography into their regular seasons more slowly but steadily. For example, next year, Crystal Pite will be the first woman to create for The Royal […]
New York City Ballet’s fall season opened last week with Peter Martins’ production of Swan Lake. The company is looking ahead to their gala tomorrow, followed by a month of works new and old. The marketing department seems particularly excited about its premieres, many of them created by new choreographers (perhaps part of their admirable […]
How NYCB draws in—and retains—coveted young audiences The young Justin Peck has become a choreographic face of NYCB. His most recent ballet: Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes. Photo by Paul Kolnick, courtesy NYCB. A dapper young man wakes up in a mysterious drawing room to the vision of a beautiful woman in an evening gown with […]
The Bolshoi’s Svetlana Lunkina carves a path for career and family at National Ballet of Canada. Lunkina rehearsing in the National Ballet of Canada studios with principal Piotr Stanczyk; Photo by Bruce Zinger, Courtesy NBC Even in a crowded company class at the National Ballet of Canada’s harborside studios, Svetlana Lunkina stands out. Her […]
A peek at the new season The Suzanne Farrell Ballet Kennedy Center, Nov. 7–11 The company known for celebrating Balanchine reaches outside that circle of masterworks with Paul Mejia’s Romeo and Juliet. But rest assured, also on the agenda will be Balanchine’s astringent Agon, complex Episodes, and serene Mozartiana. Jennifer Fournier in Mozartiana. […]
“Try not to freak out,” a staff member advised student choreographer Robert Binet. It was just hours before curtain at Toronto’s Assemblée Internationale 2009, a week-long student festival hosted by Canada’s National Ballet School last November on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Binet’s original work Surge would be performed that […]
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