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. […]

When he was 7 years old, future choreographer Tere O’Connor donned a white V-neck tennis sweater, a pair of very short shorts, and his father’s trout fishing boots and sashayed down the street of his blue-collar neighborhood in Webster, New York. That inspired act of creativity was probably his first choreographed performance. “It was like […]

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Interviewed by Joseph Carman, Steven Sucato, and Wendy Perron. Growing up in Korea, being a male dancer was looked down upon. For six years, my mother kept the fact that I was taking dance classes a secret from my father, because of traditional views Koreans have on gender roles and that men don’t dance. In my […]

When Victoria Morgan first arrived in Cincinnati nine years ago as artistic director of Cincinnati Ballet, she heard an eye-opening comment at a luncheon after she introduced herself to the wife of a well-known public figure seated next to her. “She said, ‘Oh, I am just so uncomfortable watching men in tights,’ ” relates Morgan, […]