When Katelyn Prominski came down with swine flu in 2009, she never quite recovered. Six months later, she remembers, “I started feeling super-exhausted, super-hungry, always thirsty. Just really, really run down.” Then a corps member with Pennsylvania Ballet, Prominski didn’t know that the virus had triggered Type 1 diabetes. The disease is normally diagnosed in […]
The term “backup dancer” might bring to mind the army of women on Beyoncé’s Formation tour, or the men who didn’t miss a beat during Mariah Carey’s recent New Year’s Eve performance, maintaining flawless unison as she dealt with technical difficulties. Choreography for concerts tends to be almost aggressively slick and synchronized, a sea of […]
When Tiler Peck was 3, her mother, a dance teacher in Bakersfield, California, taught her two two-minute dance routines which the toddler zipped through with flair. At 9 she started on pointe and a few months later danced Clara (on pointe) in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in California. By 12 she had danced the […]
No less a star than Desmond Richardson heads up the show’s stellar dance ensemble. Everett Bradley, backed by Desmond Richardson, far right, and other ensemble members in “Peckin’” When Desmond Richardson was attending New York’s High School of Performing Arts, his mother would sometimes take him to the nearby Howard Johnson’s restaurant for a […]
This year, a single performance stood out as gut-wrenching and unforgettable: Nadia Beugré, from Cote d’Ivoire, delivered an almost unbearably compelling solo titled Quartiers Libres, wherein pleasure and pain, freedom and oppression, intermingled. It was part of the Voices of Strength tour from Africa that stopped at New York Live Arts. When Beugré gradually stuffed […]
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