Liam Scarlett defies all the clichés about “genius at work” and “artistic temperament.” Constructing an intimate pas de deux for American Ballet Theatre’s Hee Seo and Marcelo Gomes last fall, he conceived quietly attentive lifts and intricate steps with the cool deliberation of a mason laying bricks. The dancers, joined by the second cast’s Isabella […]
Liam Scarlett uses Hee Seo to demonstrate a lift. Liam Scarlett defies all the clichés about “genius at work” and “artistic temperament.” Constructing an intimate pas de deux for American Ballet Theatre’s Hee Seo and Marcelo Gomes last fall, he conceived quietly attentive lifts and intricate steps with the […]
ABT principal Hee Seo, who is prominently featured on ABT’s YouTube channel, at our 2013 cover shoot. Photo by Nathan Sayers. Anniversaries are a time to look back, but they’re also a time to push forward. This year, American Ballet Theatre celebrates 75 years. And with the season, the company has (finally!) created its own […]
Big news for American fans of Russian ballet: First, St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet has finally set a date for its U.S. debut. Though the company initially planned to perform in New York two summers ago, that visit was canceled when American Ballet Theatre exercised a non-compete clause involving Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova, who […]
We’ve Been Waiting for This ON TOUR: When Akram Khan premiered DESH in England two years ago, our reviewer, Donald Hutera, wrote that “Khan’s stunning production feels like a culmination of everything this gifted British-Bangladeshi choreographer has been striving for.” Fascinating for his kathak-infused movement, whether helicopter-fast or mesmerizingly slow, Khan time-travels in this […]
Below Naples, Southern Italy, the coast stumbles into the Mediterranean, a dazzling blue, in a chaos of steep rocks that have survived millennia of volcanic activity. When I was invited to attend the opening ceremonies of Premio di Danza, the first weekend in September, I had vaguely heard of the beauty of the area, […]
The line-up for ABT’s Sleeping Beauty this week includes some of the company’s greatest stars. Principals Paloma Herrera, Gillian Murphy, and Veronika Part have all of danced the role before. Hee Seo will be making her debut. And there will be a single soloist, Sarah Lane, who is a natural Aurora (as I discovered five […]
On Wednesday afternoon, ABT principal Hee Seo made her debut as Odette/Odile. It’s no secret that we love Seo, and there was much to love about her first Swan Lake. Her whole body expressed palpable fear upon meeting her Prince Siegfried, Marcelo Gomes. She allowed that initial skittishness to dissipate as the pas de deux […]
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