I first got hooked on Broadway musicals as a preteen at Gypsy, with its tapping moppets, gyrating burlesque queens and Tulsa, the dancing heartthrob. I’ve been going ever since, but Dance Magazine has been at it even longer. The 1926-27 Broadway season was just ending when DM began publication, and of its 200-plus shows, dozens […]

A long time ago, I was a teenager, just hired as a member of the corps with New York City Ballet. I found myself standing in B-plus at the very back corner of the State Theater stage, clutching the hand of fellow teenage corps member Shawn Stevens. Though the expansive stage was filled with dozens […]

New York City Ballet’s Darci Kistler spins a fleet figure eight between two women on the stage of the David H. Koch Theater. “I think they’re too far away. What do you think?” she calls out breathlessly from mid-piqué turn as blue tulle whips about her legs. The music stops, and rehearsal mistress Rosemary Dunleavy […]