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Frank Andersen has devoted great energy to preserving and advancing Bournonville technique, the signature style of the Royal Danish Ballet. A recipient of a 2002 Dance Magazine Award, he recently retired from his position as artistic director of the company, which he held from 1985 to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2008. Andersen began […]

Between the October closing of 9 to 5: The Musical’s Los Angeles tryout and the start of rehearsals for its April arrival on Broadway, the performers were on hiatus. Nevertheless, on a chill February day Andy Blankenbuehler was in his small Times Square studio, busily adjusting the choreography along with an assistant and five specially […]

Some like white, others prefer black. But Viengsay Valdés, Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s dazzling ballerina, likes both colors of swans. “When I’ve danced a good Act II Odette,” she says with a grin, “I know that my Odile will be good too. It’s like a reward to myself.”   The dynamic ballerina is the darling […]

We tend to think of choreographers as particularly creative people. That may be true, but it does not mean that the ideas and movement flow every minute of the day. Just as writers have writer’s block, dancemakers sometimes get choreographer’s block. Here five choreographers talk openly about those scary moments in the studio when you […]

Stephen Petronio set Shila Tirabassi spinning in a circle, releasing her only when she stopped abruptly and shot her back leg out in arabesque. “Perfect,” he said, moving away as she turned on the diagonal, allowing space for Amanda Wells to leap forward in a series of explosive jetés. “Good, good,” he cheered.   His […]

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 […]

With diamond-like clarity, Wendy Whelan dances a wide variety of starring roles with New York City Ballet. While growing up in Kentucky, she trained at Louisville Ballet Academy. At 13 she came to NYC to study at the School of American Ballet and joined NYCB five years later. Since 1991, when she was named a […]

Doug Varone and Dancers Joyce Theater, NYC February 24–March 1, 2009 Reviewed by Christopher Atamian   Photo by Phil Knott. Daniel Charon, Erin Owen, Ryan Corriston in Varone’s Alchemy.   The reworking of Doug Varone’s 2000 Tomorrow, set to beautiful “Belle Epoque” songs by Reynaldo Hahn, opened an exciting evening. The dancing, precise and sensual, […]