There’s tons of great stuff to see at this year’s Dance on Camera festival, which opens this Friday, February 1st, at Lincoln Center. Films about students from Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s school (To Dance Like a Man); the first Mexican dancer to perform on Broadway, Carmen Gutierrez (A Girl from Mexico); and a 1971 Busby […]
It’s almost time to announce the new class of “25 to Watch,” one of our favorite Dance Magazine features of the year. In choosing the annual list of 25 standout artists and companies, we ask our contributing writers and senior advising editors to identify who is on the verge of a breakthrough, who has all […]
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 […]
Some of you may remember Gallim Dance from our April 2011 cover story, or maybe you’ve seen artistic director Andrea Miller’s gutsy dancers in her Gaga-steeped works like Wonderland or Blush. Lately, the troupe has been busy settling into its new headquarters at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew in the picturesque neighborhood […]
A guide to the new season BodyCartography Project, coming to Walker Art Center in October. Photo by Gene Pittman, Courtesy WAC. This fall, a vibrant mix of voices will be “heard” onstage through movement, memorials, and mile-markers. From an array of world premieres hitting theaters across the U.S., to tantalizing festivals celebrating […]
Photographers to follow online, Susan Rethorst’s A Choreographic Mind, Two Dutch National Ballet DVDs, Fifth Wall iPad app, Broadway or Bust on PBS Photographer Christopher Duggan updates his blog with photos like this one of Yin Yue on the Inside/Out stage at Jacob’s Pillow. Photo by Christopher Duggan, Courtesy Duggan. Websites Sometimes […]
One foot in ABT, the other in the Bolshoi, David Hallberg is at the pinnacle of international ballet. All photos by Matthew Karas unless otherwise credited. It’s simply never been done before. Period. An American had never been asked to join the Bolshoi Ballet at the principal level until last September, when the insular Russian […]
Within 10 seconds of watching David Hallberg dance onstage, you can see that he has exquisite lines and amazing feet. Within 20 seconds, you’ll notice his noble demeanor. And within 30 seconds, you simply succumb to the thrill of his outsized dancing. But it would take longer to see that Hallberg also has an outsized […]
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