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Nicholle Rochelle dances large. At 5′ 7″ she is a willowy, feminine presence onstage, drawing audiences in with her lucscious movement quality, extended line, and confident skill. “When I first saw her in an audition for the company I was taken by her physique—she reminded me of Sylvie Guillem,” says North Carolina Dance Theatre artistic […]

The London afternoon is dark and dank, but he swaggers into the cozy backstage room at the Royal Opera House as if strutting down the Malecon, Havana’s famous sea-front. His friendly manner and broad smile fill the room like Cuban sunshine. He’s wearing a soft beige leather jacket and a back-to-front brown cap, under which […]

Everyone has an idol, a mentor, a personal hero—someone whose influence inspires life-changing decisions. For dancers, those pivotal moments might come from seeing a breathtaking performance, watching the evolving artistry of a colleague, or opening their minds to the revelations offered by a coach, choreographer, or director. Dance Magazine contributing editor Cheryl Ossola asked 12 dancers—themselves […]

In the last few moments of The Washington Ballet’s Giselle, Elizabeth Gaither wraps her tinsel-thin arms around her partner and then slowly drifts away. She melts into each detail, every placement of her foot and turn of her head softer than the last. Finally she achieves an all but ethereal state as the music draws […]

Former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992. My hip has been hurting off and on for the last year. I wasn’t worried at first because I […]

Choreographers on their dancers, their inspirations, and why no piece is ever finished. Dance Magazine interviewed 16 choreographers of different ages, styles, and nationalities. We asked four questions. What do you look for in a dancers? how do you know when a work is finished? When you think something is beautiful, what is likely to […]

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 […]

Havana is a city where, when you tell a taxi driver to take you to the theater to see a ballet, he (or she) asks, “Who is dancing tonight?” Tickets for the biannual International Ballet Festival of Havana are sold out weeks in advance. The audience, a mix of all economic classes, bursts into applause […]