It’s not every ballet superstar who, between performance dates with major companies, squeezes in a festival that she herself has founded. Starting as far back as our cover story in 2008, Diana Vishneva, a world-class principal at both American Ballet Theatre and the Mariinsky Ballet, has been following her curiosity for modern dance. With “CONTEXT: […]
Deadlifting 140 pounds gives her a noticeable edge in the studio. Meiss builds explosive power by jumping on and off a 24-inch box. Photo by Sian Richards, Courtesy NBOC. As a student, Chelsy Meiss was told that to become a professional ballet dancer, she should never lift weights. “ ‘No one likes an overly […]
Youth American Grand Prix, the largest youth competition for ballet in the world, has always stressed artistry as well as technique in its galas. For its blockbuster 15th anniversary two-night celebration, students in the house screamed equally for fabulous jumps and turns as for the poetry of classicism. Another hallmark of these galas, as organized […]
Pilates prepares this Nederlands Dans Theater dancer for any style. Danielle Rowe can conquer any kind of movement. This season alone, the Nederlands Dans Theater member juggled Jirí Kylián’s intensely emotional Heart’s Labyrinth with Marco Goecke’s quirky new Hello Earth, and this month she performs in an evening of work by hard-hitting Israeli-born […]
The company will see big changes in 2014. When Nederlands Dans Theater announced last May that it would stop performing Jirí Kylián’s work for three years, comparisons were made to a Balanchine-less New York City Ballet. But as artistic director Paul Lightfoot started factoring the decision into planning the next season, the company ran […]
Who’s caught our eye for 2012 Photo of Rachel Van Buskirk by Matthew Karas. Ana Lopez The beauty of Ana Lopez’s dancing is that there is nothing extraneous or decorative about it, yet she invariably becomes a mesmerizing presence onstage. She draws you into her orbit with her scrubbed-clean technique and […]
By Wendy Perron My whirlwind, three-city tour of Brazil started with Samba and ended with a very cool improvisation group. In between were hip hop, Balanchine, dancing in the streets, and Amazon-inspired rituals. Oh, and a funding inequity between a new ballet company and other groups that has many dance people seething with resentment (more […]
Teatro Sérgio Cardosa São Paulo, Brazil October 19, 2011 By Wendy Perron This fledgling ballet company, co-directed by Iracity Cardoso and Inês Bogéa, chose an adventurous triple bill. Only three years old, it offered two works that most ballet companies wouldn’t go near—Nacho Duato’s earthy Gnawa and Marco Goecke’s super jittery Supernova—and a cramped version […]
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