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RETIREMENT Jock Soto Jock Soto, whose final performance with New York City Ballet is June 19th, has danced myriad roles since joining the company in 1981. His repertoire includes ballets by Balanchine and  Robbins. Many choreographers have created roles on him, including Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and Kevin O’Day. Soto has appeared on […]

In the dying light of a summer’s day, an Asian woman, her hair in a pigtail, turns slowly in the weeds by a Brooklyn canal. One hand is at her chest, the other stretches out to the side. Behind her, across the canal, is a factory, its windows catching the reflection of the setting sun. […]

“Alvin used to call the dancers gods and goddesses—when we did something right,” says Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. During her performing career, Jamison certainly exuded a goddess-like aura. It isn’t a stretch, then, to see that the dancers she has hired and coached look like they’re doing something […]

I’ve read your book, Advice for Dancers, and I know you’ve done research on body image and eating disorders. I’d like to explore the differences between modern and ballet dancers in this area for my senior project at the University of South Florida. I’m having problems finding resources that focus directly on dancers. Can you […]

Cal Performances celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Connors, who started the job in 1945, recalls the early, pre-Misha era. “It was very hard to get companies to come out. There were so few performing opportunities on the West Coast. And they didn’t fly in those days,” she says.     In earlier decades, Berkeley […]

Deaths Fayard Nicholas (1914–2006) The elder and taller of the brilliant Nicholas Brothers, Fayard was known as “having the best arms and hands in the business.” His fluid torso and eloquent hands wove poetry in counterpoint to the complex tapping. Watching this perfect tap duo, it was difficult to know where Harold (who died in […]

Dawn Fay Ballet Memphis doesn’t rank its dancers in the typical hierarchical sense. However, if there were a scale, Dawn Fay would undoubtedly land on top as the company’s prima. Watching Fay dance is a bit like listening to Melissa Etheridge sing rock or Diana Krall jazz: She is soulful, insightful, a powerhouse of strength. […]

Ludmila Beaulemova (Scott Austin) and R.M. (“Prince”) Myshkin (Fernando Medina Gallego) in Flames of Paris Photo by Sascha Renee Vaughan, courtesy Les Ballets Trockadero   Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo American Theatre, Hampton, VA February 21–22, 2006 Reviewed by Lea Marshall   Imagine sitting at a fancy dinner party, bewildered by too many forks […]