When Stanton Welch became artistic director of Houston Ballet eight years ago, the company’s board challenged him to dream big. A tangible response now sparkles in black granite and glass on the northern edge of Houston’s theater district. The company’s sleek, airy $46.6 million Center for Dance, which opened in April, gives Houston Ballet […]
Vampires bare their fangs in the Carolinas, bayadères besiege Boston, and you can’t make a move without encountering a ballet set to Carmina Burana. The dancescape this autumn looks promising. At home, ballet companies favor narratives, some traditional, others original. The touring slate includes major expeditions from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Sankai Juku, and, as […]
Retirements Gavin Larsen , whose passionate commitment to Balanchine’s choreography has made her a leading interpreter of his work at Oregon Ballet Theatre, gave her farewell performance on May 2, dancing in his 1972 Duo Concertant. “She’s that rare artist who combines dedication and intelligence with a poignant musical and dramatic instinct,” […]
Last May Sarah Kaufman wrote a tirade in The Washington Post entitled, “Make Room Onstage for More Than One Genius.” In it she claimed that “we are cursed with an overload” of Balanchine’s works. She pined for more “human” ballets, like those of Lew Christensen, Eugene Loring, and Catherine Littlefield in the 1930s, and called […]
A principal dancer at Oregon Ballet Theatre, Gavin Larsen brings a wonderful plasticity, musical sensitivity, and acting chops to all her roles. From her touching turn as the lovelorn Helena in Christopher Stowell’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to her portrait of a young dancer’s awakening in Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, she draws the […]
On a cool Toronto evening last October, 23-year-old National Ballet of Canada corps member Jenna Savella made a larger-than-life appearance. As part of Nuit Blanche, an annual city-wide, dusk-to-dawn arts extravaganza, NBC staged an interactive, virtual ballet class at its hometown opera-house venue, the sparkling Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The image of […]
Colorado Ballet Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY March 6, 2005 Ballet Aspen Santa Fe Joyce Theater, New York, NY March 8–13 Reviewed by Clive Barnes If New Yorkers couldn’t get to the Rocky Mountains this ski season, then the Rocky Mountains came to New York, in the form of the […]
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