When George Balanchine’s full-length Don Quixote premiered in 1965, critics and audiences alike viewed the ballet as a failure. Elaborate scenery and costumes framed mawkish mime passages, like one in which the ballerina washed the Don’s feet and dried them with her hair. Its revival in 2005 by Suzanne Farrell, the ballerina on whom it […]

Ezra Hurwitz‘s dance trailers are tailor-made for going viral. His fast-moving shorts highlight not only the glamour of dance but also the grit, with a stylish Millennial sensibility. The former Miami City Ballet corps member has been tapped by everyone from San Francisco Ballet to The Kennedy Center to Broadway’s Chicago. He’s also done commercials […]

When it was announced last fall that 2017 would be The Suzanne Farrell Ballet’s final season, the news rippled through the American ballet community. Farrell, who for many represents the embodiment of George Balanchine’s ’60s and ’70s style, had been producing lucid, emotionally connected performances of his works annually at The Kennedy Center since 2001. […]

If The Nutcracker just isn’t doing it for you this season, stay #woke with these three shows. Camille A. Brown Delivers a Double Whammy WASHINGTON, DC Camille A. Brown isn’t known for pulling punches. As part of her Kennedy Center debut, she’ll premiere ink, an examination of African-American rituals and gestural language co-commissioned by The […]

It’s time! You submitted your nominations for the most memorable dance you saw this year. We narrowed down our favorites, and now it’s up to you to decide what will make it into our December issue. Voting will be open until September 25th. Only one submission per person will be counted. Loading…