Alex Wong got his cast off, New York City Ballet’s Kathryn Morgan is heading to Prada, Houston Ballet’s Melissa Hough feels narcoleptic after the fall rep, and Miami City Ballet’s Rebecca King is taking five before a Bugaku rehearsal. How do I know all this? Simple, I follow them on Twitter. I was born […]
“Reflections” Segerstrom Center for the Arts • Costa Mesa, CA • January 20–23, 2011 • Reviewed by Victoria Looseleaf Finally: a program with the girls out in force. Unfortunately, their force fields—no matter how magnetic—fizzled in the overly long (nearly three hours), unevenly paced program. Sure, there were fleeting moments of brilliance—both in choreography […]
“Reflections” Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA January 20–23, 2011 Reviewed by Victoria Looseleaf Yekaterina Shipulina in Aszure Barton’s Dumka. Photo by Steve Dawson, courtesy Segerstrom Center. Finally: a program with the girls out in force. Unfortunately, their force fields—no matter how magnetic—fizzled in the overly long (nearly three hours), unevenly paced […]
What distinguishes Bolshoi Ballet Academy graduates from other dancers? It has been said that there is a bravado that possesses dancers trained in the Bolshoi style, a sense of abandon that comes with the territory. Audiences can see it for themselves when 10 top Academy graduates perform “Reflections,” which premieres at the Orange County Performing […]
Keeping Up with Mr. Jones What do Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill T. Jones have in common? They are all 2010 Kennedy Center Honorees. Jones, whose Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray returns to the Kennedy Center in February, and his fellow honorees will be celebrated on […]
San Francisco Ballet Highlights of the Spring Season • War Memorial Opera House San Francisco, CA • February 9–May 9, 2010 • Reviewed by Rachel Howard In its 77th year, the San Francisco Ballet stretched its repertory with unexpected acquisitions from both ends of the past century. By far the event of […]
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. […]
Maria Kochetkova insists she is not a perfectionist, but from today’s rehearsal, you would never know it. Her assignment this morning is the Don Quixote grand pas de deux. Her partner is San Francisco Ballet fellow principal Joan Boada, and the mood is subdued, but intense. Kochetkova quietly stretches on the floor in an […]
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