New York City Ballet is supposed to be a no-star company. They don’t anoint the top dancers as étoiles the way Paris Opéra Ballet does. And they don’t import mega-stars from Russia the way American Ballet Theatre does. With the enduring repertoire of Balanchine and Robbins, and tons of commissioned pieces, NYCB is supposed to […]
Tonight, everything culminates for 350 international student finalists as they compete for the top awards of the Youth America Grand Prix. (Dancers who have been in their shoes? Sarah Lane, Beckanne Sisk, Whitney Jensen, and Lauren Lovette—just to name a few.) In addition to winning medals and scholarships, some students will earn a coveted spotlight […]
On Sunday March 24, Art of Motion is presenting a two-hour master class with New York City Ballet principal Amar Ramasar and his uncle Daniel Catanach, who first introduced Ramasar to ballet. (Catanach is on faculty at Steps on Broadway.) Class starts at 2pm and is $30 in advance, $40 at the door. It might […]
It’s official: Benjamin Millepied is the new designated director of the Paris Opéra Ballet. Millepied will begin his post in fall 2014, when current director Brigitte Lefèvre retires. It’s a puzzling appointment. He’s clearly a celebrity, bolstered by his marriage to Natalie Portman. He has organized various pick-up troupes in the past—Danses Concertantes, Benjamin Millepied and […]
This year, a single performance stood out as gut-wrenching and unforgettable: Nadia Beugré, from Cote d’Ivoire, delivered an almost unbearably compelling solo titled Quartiers Libres, wherein pleasure and pain, freedom and oppression, intermingled. It was part of the Voices of Strength tour from Africa that stopped at New York Live Arts. When Beugré gradually stuffed […]
Sometimes I wish costumes onstage were more like Halloween. I mean at least when you’re trick-or-treating, you get to choose your own costume according to your own fantasies. You don’t go around in your group all wearing the same costume. I have two complaints about most of the costumes I see in new ballets: all […]
Sometimes I wish costumes onstage were more like Halloween. I mean at least when you’re trick-or-treating, you get to choose your own costume according to your own fantasies. You don’t go around in your group all wearing the same costume. I have two complaints about most of the costumes I see in new ballets: all […]
New York City Center Sept. 27–Oct. 13, 2012 Programs 1, 3 and 5 The annual Fall for Dance Festival offers astounding global variety inexpensively, and continues to be wildly popular in its ninth season. Several New York premieres in three evenings are reviewed here. The first program (seen on Sept. 27) featured Fang-Yi Sheu […]
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