A little over a year ago, I wrote an op-ed for Dance Magazine about the grueling, oppressive grant cycle. It was crying into my pillow, really. I was complaining and desperate to share my story. I was fed up with 10 years of applying for grants and having never received one for the research or […]

What should we dance about today and how should we go about it? Those questions were on the mind of Nashville Ballet artistic director Paul Vasterling this summer as he spent six weeks exploring new ways of telling stories through ballet as a fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and Arts. Over his 20 years […]

Jennifer Homans raised eyebrows when she delivered ballet’s eulogy in Apollo’s Angels, her 2010 book on the history of ballet. Today, when she reflects on writing the phrase “I now feel sure that ballet is dying,” Homans says, “I was trying to make people think, but I was also saying what I was feeling. In […]