The city’s ever-expanding dance scene has made it an increasingly appealing––and affordable––option for dancers. Above: Artistic director Roy Kaiser has expanded PA Ballet’s Balanchine-based repertoire to include modern works by Merce Cunningham and David Parsons, as well as contemporary ballet choreographers like Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe (his Artifact Suite pictured above), and Alexei Ratmansky. […]
The Royal’s corps of swans, photographed by company member Andrej Uspenski. Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet. By Andrej Uspenski. Oberon Books. 144 pages. $60. Andrej Uspenski is a first artist with The Royal Ballet. He also has a passion for photography and his unique position in the ballet company has given […]
Joyce Theater New York, NY August 6–17, 2013 The Joyce Theater’s new two-week festival, Ballet v6.0, showcased the vision and focus of adventurous chamber ballet companies from five different cities. Several are led by former members of major ballet troupes (New York City, Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania and Houston Ballets); their rosters range from 6 […]
We may find an array of answers to this question when Ballet v6.0 starts tomorrow at the Joyce. This mini-festival brings together six small ballet companies, mostly from outside New York. They are tiny compared to the companies that do Swan Lake and Bayadère, but they show a curiosity for presenting ballet in a more […]
American Music Festival Portland, Oregon April 18–27, 2013 From left: Brian Simcoe, Julia Rowe and Lucas Threefoot in Pontus Lidberg’s Stream Photo by Blaine Truitt Covert, Courtesy OBT Energy, optimism, and dreaminess—all qualities that have been ascribed to the American character—marked the American Music Festival, Oregon Ballet Theatre’s spring show. It offered Portland viewers […]
Flying High at 10 Donald Byrd’s 10th season at Spectrum Dance Theater has been chock-full: a national tour of his Theater of Needless Talents, Byrd’s homage to artists who perished in the Holocaust; the premiere of A Meeting Place last winter; and a DanceMotion USA goodwill trip to Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. This month, […]
Both Koresh and BalletX perform at SummerStage this Wednesday. The two companies have a lot in common. They hail from Philadelphia, have highly technical dancers, and are held together by strong leading ladies. When Roni Koresh began Koresh Dance Company in 1991, Melissa Rector, then a student at University of the Arts, was at his […]
Sometimes you get hooked on a dance from the minute the lights go up, and you ride with it all the way. It reels you in. Other dances don’t grab you right away and then you gotta work at giving it a chance. If you’re lucky, you can feel your own opinion change…and something emerges […]
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