Twenty-four dance companies (24!) are packed into the Fall for Dance festival, opening this Wednesday at NY City Center. How can you not love this cornucopia of dance riches at $15 a pop? You get to see four different companies or artists each night. Even the few people who complain about it usually admit that […]
Sara Mearns comes to movie theaters, You Don’t Need Feet to Dance DVD, web series city.ballet., Pontus Lidberg film on demand, Media Maven: Sydney Skybetter Cinema New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns’ devotion to her craft is well-documented. (Our June 2012 cover girl eats, breathes, and lives ballet.) As the lead […]
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. […]
Robert Fairchild of NYCB in Justin Peck’s In Creases, the choreographer’s first NYCB commission, which premiered at SPAC last summer. Photo by Paul Kolnik, Courtesy SPAC. There is a sense of reverence and nostalgia when people speak of New York City Ballet’s nearly half-century summer residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga […]
There’s a moment in this just-released short film—featuring David Hallberg, that prince of princes—that really resonates. He grabs his left knee, then right, then right ankle, then left, with a kind of testing touch to make sure that everything is responsive. It’s a nod to a dancer’s relationship with his or her body, that all-powerful […]
Imagine: A dancer who has done a role countless times, for years, suddenly transforms, elevating their performance to previously unimaginable heights. That breakthrough moment is one of the most exciting things to witness, period. And it happened, last night, at New York City Ballet’s spring gala—to Andrew Veyette in Stars and Stripes. From his […]
Ballet’s Ivy League Laboratory Members of Columbia Ballet Collaborative in Emery LeCrone’s Five Songs for Piano. Matthew Murphy, Courtesy CBC After the highly praised premiere of his Year of the Rabbit last October, many people know the name of New York City Ballet corps member and up-and-coming choreographer Justin Peck. But fewer realize […]
David H. Koch Theater January 31, 2013 Justin Peck may only be in his mid-twenties, but based on Paz de la Jolla, his new work for New York City Ballet, he senses the poignancy of fleeting youth. After the success of last year’s Year of the Rabbit for NYCB, Peck once again shows his […]
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