News of Note: What You Might Have Missed in August 2023
Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from August 2023.
Cassandra Trenary Comes Into Her Own
The American Ballet Theatre principal is pushing herself—and ballet—to be better.
4 In-Person Shows We Want to See This November
From new works to old traditions, here are four performances we have on our radar. Lost With You Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s Vanishing MélodiesSasha Onyshchenko, Courtesy BJM MONTREAL Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal plumbs the songbook of Patrick Watson for its latest creation. Vanishing Mélodies brings to life the memories of a lone woman waiting for a bus, […]
Audience Appeal: How Much Should Artists Care About Viewers’ Opinions?
To what extent should artists care what ticket buyers think? Does the power within a patron’s purse determine an artwork’s worth?
Exclusive Clip of a Young Twyla Tharp…Being Very Twyla
Twyla Tharp is well-known for being a singularly no-nonsense artist. In this clip, you can see just how matter-of-factly she spoke about her own choreography even back in her 30s: She talks through each gesture of a phrase in the “Black Bottom Stomp” from her classic Eight Jelly Rolls, describing her step inspirations—from “shame on […]
What Steven Spielberg Taught Dancer Kellie Drobnick on the Set of West Side Story
After graduating from The Juilliard School in 2016, Kellie Drobnick immediately set about conquering the worlds of concert dance, Hollywood and musical theater. She spent two months dancing with MOMIX, toured in the Dirty Dancing musical, joined Twyla Tharp Dance and is a Jet in the much-anticipated West Side Story remake, directed by Steven Spielberg […]
This Ballet Company Will Only Dance Works by Women in 2020. The Director Doesn't Think That Should Be News
It’s fitting that New Zealand, the first country to give women the right to vote, should also be the place where, for the first time, a major ballet company will present an entire 12-month dance season devoted to works by female choreographers. But according to Royal New Zealand Ballet’s artistic director, former Pacific Northwest Ballet […]
6 New Dance Books for Your "To Read" List, Penned by the Likes of Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp
There are a number of new dance titles hitting bookstores this fall, and there seems to be something for everyone. Practical advice from Twyla Tharp and Annie-b Parson? Check. Enticing biographical entries featuring writing by the likes of Jerome Robbins and Mark Morris? Check. Gorgeous coffee table books and distillations of academic research? Check and […]