Retirements Kansas City Ballet’s sublime Kimberly Cowen concludes her 20-year performing career with the company this month. She dances in Balanchine’s Serenade and Todd Bolender’s Souvenirs May 4–13 in Kansas City, and performs a pas de deux from artistic director William Whitener’s Carmen and the tango from Souvenirs on May 24 at St. Louis’ Spring […]
The Better Half This month, three dancers from Lucky Plush Productions and two performers from physical theater company 500 Clown band together for a performance of Julia Rhoads ( a 2010 “25 to Watch”) and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig’s The Better Half. This evocative new LPP work is based on George Cukor’s 1944 melodrama Gaslight, which […]
Retirements Leonides Arpon is a compact dancer with a huge heart. Even standing still, he radiates electricity through his taut limbs and intense expression. And when he starts moving, he pushes the limits of maximum acceleration, extension, and projection. You have no choice but to watch his incisive renditions of Karole Armitage’s explosive, […]
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 […]
Physics, Poetry, Performance Science and art collide in a work as explosive as the Big Bang when Liz Lerman Dance Exchange premieres The Matter of Origins. The University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center hosts the multidisciplinary interrogation of the beginning of life as we know it. Inspired by Lerman’s research on developments in […]
Morgan’s Home in Mobile New York City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan (“On the Rise,” May 2008) returns to her Alabama roots when she goes back to perform with the youth company where her dance dreams started. Morgan will guest with the Mobile Ballet, dancing the role of Aurora in the company’s production of […]
The pace of Swan Lake’s Act II can be trying for any ballerina, but for Ballet Austin’s Rebecca Johnson, it can be a heavy breathing experience. Johnson has exercise-induced asthma, a condition she needs to manage so that it does not get in the way of her dancing. “I keep my inhaler close by during Swan,” […]
It was one of those special moments, a happy coincidence that lifts our spirits and makes us laugh out loud. The opening night of Pennsylvania Ballet’s 45th anniversary season last October was the same night the Phillies won the World Series. It was the city’s first major sports championship in a quarter […]
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