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Houston Ballet principal Sara Webb has 150. San Francisco Ballet soloist Elizabeth Miner says she’s got too many to count. Fellow company member Pauli Magierek owns at least 60. And Houston corps de ballet member Jaquel Charlesworth says, “I’m kind of obsessed,” before mentioning that she owns 200. Everyone likes to have options when it […]

Sofiane Sylve dances with glorious virtuosity. Her musical phrases are sweeping, her pirouettes extravagant, and her leaps exultant. She looks like she could jump over a rainbow. Sylve has a clear affinity for Balanchine’s choreography, but her background is European. She was born in France and studied at the Académie de Danse in Nice. After […]

Feng-Yi Sheu Taking Up the Mantle of Martha “Go at your audience with a whip,” Louis Horst used to tell Martha Graham. When the Martha Graham Dance Company came to City Center last April, its second New York season since winning back the rights to its own repertory, the whip was in one body: Fang-Yi […]

In 1947, Betty Jones became a founding member and principal dancer of the José Limón Dance Company, creating roles such as Desdemona opposite Limón’s Moor in his classic work, The Moor’s Pavane. She danced in the company for 20 years. And for another 20 she served on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the […]

Marcelo Gomes is the guy all the girls want to dance with.     In a studio at American Ballet Theatre headquarters in Manhattan, principal dancers Marcelo Gomes and Julie Kent greet each other with a hug and peck on each cheek as Gomes asks about his pal William, Kent’s 2-year-old son. Moments later the […]

Endless lines in banks, faulty social services, flooded streets that have you swimming out of your car, bureaucratic confusion and never-ending papers to fill out… In the theatres, the floors are about to cave in, and the lighting instruments are burnt out. What’s the Brazilian response to this pandemonium? “Um jeitinho” or “Don’t worry, we’ll […]

Few ballets have proved so tempting to choreographers—or so challenging.     The plot of Swan Lake turns on a rite of passage: Prince Siegfried, reaching the age of 21, must choose a bride. The task of choreographing and performing Swan Lake is also a rite of passage. For companies, artistic directors, and principal dancers, […]

Not content with remaking ballet, the choreographer is pushing theatrical boundaries. William Forsythe made his first work (a pas de deux called Urlicht) in his living room in 1976. Since then—as a choreographer with the Stuttgart Ballet; then as head of the Frankfurt Ballet; now with his own company—he has fundamentally changed the way we […]