What distinguishes Bolshoi Ballet Academy graduates from other dancers? It has been said that there is a bravado that possesses dancers trained in the Bolshoi style, a sense of abandon that comes with the territory. Audiences can see it for themselves when 10 top Academy graduates perform “Reflections,” which premieres at the Orange County Performing […]
What a thrill to be in a studio watching Vladimir Vasiliev working with dancers! Last evening he was rehearsing David Hallberg and Polina Semionova in his Romeo and Juliet in preparation for Youth America Grand Prix’s tribute to him this Saturday. Such readiness in his 70-year-old body! Ready to move and […]
Treading for the Ages Elisa Monte’s hypnotic duet Treading, made for Martha Graham’s company in 1979, is a staple of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s repertory. It can be seen on Monte’s own company from Feb. 25 to March 7, fittingly at Ailey Citigroup Theater. Two programs feature a premiere by Monte, whose […]
Mats Ek’s Carmen DVD. $24.99. www.kulturfilms.com. An icon in Europe and hardly known in the U.S., Mats Ek remade a number of classics in sometimes outrageous interpretations. This DVD offers a revealing look at his Carmen, filmed in 1994, to Rodion Shchedrin’s version of Bizet’s music. Famously treading the line between dance and theater—and […]
The late Clive Barnes, whose insights contributed so much to this magazine, once called the annual Youth America Grand Prix gala in New York, “the highlight of the season.” Dance enthusiasts will argue fiercely about the most memorable performances of the year, but one thing is clear. The YAGP gala, slated for April 22, sparks […]
Popular story ballets come in waves, and it seems like we’re now experiencing a virtual tsunami of Cinderellas. We’ve counted at least 25 companies who mounted a production in the last few years. Riding that crest, we interviewed five ballerinas who have danced the role of the girl who sobs into the cinders, is blessed […]
A summer breeze from San Diego Bay wafts through nearly floor-to-ceiling windows into John Malashock’s studio, where he leads students in traveling phrases across the 60-foot-long room. In another airy studio down the hall, a class rehearses a piece to Motown tunes under the eye of guest teacher Monica Bill Barnes. That was the […]
This month we’re taking you on a tour of different places, genres, and states of mind. In the feature pages you can join Charlotte d’Amboise on her Broadway roller coaster ride, admire the energy and versatility of the Hubbard Street dancers in Chicago, and be a fly on the wall when ballerinas meet their pointe […]
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