Storyboard P. Courtesy Akintola Hanif, still from Black Magic Last week, the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards (known as the Bessies), announced the nominees for its prestigious 2015 Emerging Choreographer award. Troy Schumacher, Moriah Evans, Storyboard P and Yves Laris Cohen, a diverse group of young dancemakers, were each deservedly nominated for the […]
Jeremiah Crank of Liss Fain Dance. Photo by RJ Muna, Courtesy John Hill. Right Brain/Left Brain SAN FRANCISCO Can dancing be divided into hemispheres, like the brain? That is what Matthew Antaky will attempt with his split set design for A Space Divided at Z Space, April 9–12. The project is directed by Liss Fain, who has invited […]
I had a dilemma last night: Watch the Tony Awards or the live stream of Carla Körbes’ last performance with Pacific Northwest Ballet? Both, I decided. And so, my friend and I plopped on the couch with the Tonys on the TV and a laptop open to the live stream. Since the Tonys […]
Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope in Tony-nominated An American in Paris. Photo by Sara Krulwich via The New York Times. – The anticipation is almost over. The 2015 Tony Awards are just two days away! It’s been a season of dance-filled musicals, with Jerome Robbins revivals On the Town and The King and I, […]
The Fred & Adele Astaire Awards gala last night was a blast for dance lovers. Celebrating dance on Broadway, the program was both entertaining and edifying. It started with a burst of exuberance from On the Town’s opening number with Tony Yazbeck, Clyde Alves and Jay Armstrong Johnson. But equally entertaining, throughout the evening, was […]
At Dance Magazine, we’ve been thrilled that this year has been one of the biggest for dance on Broadway in a long time. And in our opinion, the danciest productions of the season were the ones that truly stood out. But of course, we figured some of our natural bias might lean us that way. […]
What the ever-expanding repertoires of today’s companies mean for dancers The Bolshoi Ballet in Tatiyana Baganova’s The Rite of Spring; Photo by Damir Yusupov, Courtesy Bolshoi When principal dancer Robert Fairchild originated the standout role in Spectral Evidence, a 2013 creation by Angelin Preljocaj for New York City Ballet, he fell in love with the […]
Imagine yourself as a hard-boiled Broadway producer. Someone comes to you with a new pitch: How about turning the beloved 1951 Gene Kelly film An American in Paris into a Broadway musical? There’s just one catch—the director has never directed before; he’s a choreographer. Oh, and he’s really a ballet choreographer. And he’s determined to […]
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