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Rise, Featuring Marion Barbeau and Hofesh Shechter

Rise, a French feature-length film starring Paris Opéra Ballet dancer Marion Barbeau and Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter, follows 26-year-old ballet dancer Elise Gautier, who suffers a devastating fall onstage during La Bayadère after witnessing her boyfriend kissing another dancer in the wings. Gautier, played by Barbeau, takes time off to recover while working at […]

The Self-Care Secrets This Hofesh Shechter Dancer Swears By On Tour

Rachel Fallon’s first year with the Hofesh Shechter Company has been spent largely on the road. The company performs frequently, and almost always on tour. “Because we are constantly out of our home setting, I like to have some sort of routine that I can count on,” says Fallon. She shares how she stays centered […]

Sneak Peek Video: Hofesh Shechter's New Work at The Royal

The Royal Ballet is always willing to shake things up in the studio. That’s just what they’re doing with Hofesh Shechter, the wonderfully chaotic choreographer, who is currently creating his first work for The Royal, to premiere March 27. From the video here, it’s evident that this won’t be a polished tutus-and-pointe-shoes ballet. But that’s clearly not what we’d […]

Hofesh Shechter

Hofesh Shechter Sadler’s Wells Theatre London, U.K. July 14–17, 2010 Reviewed by Barbara Newman   Photo by Gabriele Zukka, Courtesy Shechter.   “Where there is pressure, there is…” what? Like everything about Hofesh Shechter’s enthralling Political Mother, those words, appearing in dots of light on a black backdrop, compelled the viewer to think about the […]

Under Hofesh's Roof

Hofesh Shechter marries the old and new in the Fiddler on the Roof revival. Photo by Kyle Froman Even if you didn’t know that a hot new choreographer has taken the reins at the latest Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof—the fifth in as many decades—the show’s movement-heavy marketing materials would tip you off. […]

Shechter's Storm

Although Uprising, Hofesh Shechter’s smoky, shadowy study in male camaraderie on the verge of violence, premiered in 2006, it was eerily relevant when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed it at the opening of its recent winter season. That same day, a grand jury had failed to indict a police officer in the death of […]