Jerez Flamenco Festival Jerez, Spain February 27–March 14, 2009 Reviewed by Justine Bayod Espoz Carmen Cortés in her Mujeres de Lorca (Lorca’s women). Photo by Javier Fernández, courtesy Festival de Jerez. For a video from the festival, click here. The southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera is known as the birthplace […]
And I don’t mean the production. When the curtain rose at City Center on this Carmen, the stage was flooded with bright color, commotion, sensuality, and artistry. Twenty-five dancers and singers intermingled in the intimacy yet grandeur of a flamenco rehearsal. It had the effect of the opening of A Chorus Line, where you are […]
BalletMet Columbus artistic director Gerard Charles will become the ballet master of the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago this July. Charles served as the head of BalletMet for over a decade and has been with the company for 26 years. He will continue to work with BalletMet in order to launch its 2012–13 season this August. […]
If Riff, the leader of the Jets, looks familiar when West Side Story’s sashaying street gangs return to Broadway this month, chances are you’re one of the Step It Up and Dance faithful. The cable reality show, which pitted 12 dancers against one another in everything from tangos to hip hop to Damn Yankees, was […]
The Extended Audition Giving dancers mo re time to shine By Jen Peters Cattle-call auditions are often a nightmare. Trying to stand out among hundreds of dancers can be frustrating, not to mention downright depressing. But if you think you have just one shot a year to make it into your dream company, […]
New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater, NYC • January 6–March 1, 2009 • Reviewed by Lisa Rinehart During a winter of dire economic news, New York City Ballet’s season was comfy as a hot-water bottle on an aching tummy. An eyeful of beauty and an earful of glorious music, courtesy of the […]
New Role “Better to retire five years too early than five minutes too late,” is an adage of the ballet world that has been taken to heart by Sergei Filin, one of the Bolshoi Ballet’s greatest stars of the past two decades. Filin blended technical finesse with the strength for which the Bolshoi is known, […]
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