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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 […]

Stockholm 59Ëš North Ted Shawn Theatre Jacob’s Pillow Becket, MA August 7, 2008 Reviewed by French Clements   Photo by Christopher Duggan. Anna Valev and Jan-Erik Wikström of Stockholm 59Ëš North in Mats Ek’s Pas de Danse at Jacob’s Pillow.     As an off-season side project comprising soloists of the 235-year-old Royal Swedish Ballet, Stockholm […]

Compagnie Heddy Maalem The Joyce Theater, NYC June 10–28, 2008 The lure of that irresistible Le Sacre du Printemps has snared another choreographer—Heddy Maalem, whose company was the first of three French troupes in the Joyce’s “French Collection” series. Maalem’s concept involves a robust cast of fourteen dancers from several African nations. Women in sherbet-colored […]

I am 4, and it’s a muggy July evening in the Berkshires. I am holding my mother’s hand; my father and 12-year-old sister are just ahead of us in the sea of over-sized people streaming into the theater. It is 1982, and I am at Jacob’s Pillow on my way in to see the first […]

What happens when a great piece of choreography is on a program with a lousy opener? Does it stand out even more, or is it tainted by what comes before?     Twice in the last couple weeks I saw a terrific piece, but had to wade through boring stuff till it came on. The first […]

Since taking over the leadership of Pacific Northwest Ballet, Peter Boal has heaped challenge upon challenge on the dancers. He has added new repertoire, more performances, and more touring. Rehearsals are now shorter and more intense, and company class is shaved by 15 minutes. He has introduced works by Jerome Robbins, Ulysees Dove, and Twyla […]

Zvi Gotheiner began studying dance in his native Israel and came to New York in 1978. He has performed with the Batsheva Dance Company, the Joyce Trisler Danscompany, and Feld Ballets/NY. In 1989 he founded ZviDance, which has performed his choreography at The Joyce, Jacob’s Pillow, and the American Dance Festival. Presently he teaches ballet […]

Russia is changing and so is the dancing. The “pure” Russian ballet that we know and love is opening up to contemporary influences, and the modern/postmodern scene is thriving. Last weekend I saw the work of three Russian dance artists who are making a difference: choreographers Olga Pona and Yuri Possokhov, and ballet superstar Nina […]