On Saturday night, American Ballet Theatre’s Grayson Davis showed how in times of crisis, it always helps to have a ballet dancer around. The corps member had just watched his wife, soloist Cassandra Trenary, perform the title role in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Golden Cockerel at the Metropolitan Opera House (Davis hadn’t been performing due to […]

“I don’t cook for just one or two people,” says James Whiteside, stirring a pot on his stove. “My mom taught me to cook and she had five kids. So when I do cook, I go in!” Aside from breakfast (usually bacon, egg and cheese on an English muffin), the American Ballet Theatre principal rarely […]

Let’s recap David Hallberg’s very busy May, shall we? Last week, we announced the American Ballet Theatre principal as our June cover star. On Monday, he starred as Prince Coffee in the New York premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream. And today, news broke that he’s written a memoir. This. Man. Is. On. Fiyah. His […]

David Hallberg almost quit dancing two years ago. The international ballet star, whose talent and drive had made him the first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer, was struggling after a 2014 ankle surgery to repair a frayed deltoid ligament. A resulting mass of scar tissue ultimately required a second surgery. […]

In the May 1952 issue of Dance Magazine, we published excerpts from Agnes de Mille’s Dance to the Piper. Of Antony Tudor, she wrote, “I have said Antony’s humor was sardonic; it was occasionally diabolic. He also said just what he thought, always a shocking experience. But he retained the unqualified admiration of his pupils….He […]

Paloma Herrera’s final performance of Giselle in 2015, like the rest of her 24-year career with American Ballet Theatre, was impeccable. The New York Times described her as “wonderfully musical, unexaggerated and unmannered,” words that more or less encapsulate the quality of her dancing in a vast array of classical and contemporary works. Now, just […]

To hear the screaming throngs of teenagers, you might think this was a Beatles concert in 1964. But no, it’s dance students from all over the world joining together for the Youth America Grand Prix’s gala at Lincoln Center, excited to see some of the greatest stars in dance today. Their rafter-shaking enthusiasm was heartening […]

When the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts announced their tenth and final round of $50,000 fellowships for performing and visual artists last week, it wasn’t exactly a surprise to see Cassandra Trenary’s name on the list. The American Ballet Theatre soloist sparkles onstage in classical rep (particularly in works by […]