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The cover of the August 1951 issue of Dance Magazine featured Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in an image from the feature film An American in Paris, which premiered in London that month. In an essay penned for the issue, Kelly described their approach to making the film’s 18-minute central ballet with the cinema in […]

Alvin Ailey’s Revelations is the most widely-seen piece of modern dance ever. And it’s about to reach even more people. As much as we love seeing live performance, the recent trend of showing dance on TV (and at the movies and through livestreams!) is widening accessibility in a big way. Just in the next few […]

The Fred & Adele Astaire Awards gala last night was a blast for dance lovers. Celebrating dance on Broadway, the program was both entertaining and edifying. It started with a burst of exuberance from On the Town’s opening number with Tony Yazbeck, Clyde Alves and Jay Armstrong Johnson. But equally entertaining, throughout the evening, was […]

Imagine yourself as a hard-boiled Broadway producer. Someone comes to you with a new pitch: How about turning the beloved 1951 Gene Kelly film An American in Paris into a Broadway musical? There’s just one catch—the director has never directed before; he’s a choreographer. Oh, and he’s really a ballet choreographer. And he’s determined to […]

What a great idea for Paris Opéra Ballet to put works by William Forsythe and Trisha Brown side by side in one program! All four pieces that I saw yesterday at the Palais Garnier —three by him and one by her—had been commissioned by POB in the past.    These two giants of contemporary dance […]

Imagine leaving home and taking up residence in a foreign land—not as a migrant seeking refuge, but as an expatriate, voluntarily opting to start a new life in a different language and culture. That’s the “What if?” that many American dance artists dare to risk by relocating to Europe. African American dancers are a large part of this picture.

“The more I danced here, the more I really got into the style, the classes and the magic of the opera house,” she says. “Everyone was adjusting to so much change with the pandemic that it empowered me to go for it.”

Ballet companies in Toronto, New York City and San Francisco are experiencing a shift as Hope Muir, Susan Jaffe and Tamara Rojo take the reins at National Ballet of Canada, American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet.