Comings & Goings Stuttgart Ballet’s Evan McKie will join The National Ballet of Canada as a principal. â– Paris Opéra Ballet’s Nicolas Le Riche retires this month. â– Three American Ballet Theatre soloists give farewells in July: Yuriko Kajiya and Jared Matthews (who join Houston Ballet as first soloists) and Sascha Radetsky. â– Aspen Institute […]
A peek at the new season The Suzanne Farrell Ballet Kennedy Center, Nov. 7–11 The company known for celebrating Balanchine reaches outside that circle of masterworks with Paul Mejia’s Romeo and Juliet. But rest assured, also on the agenda will be Balanchine’s astringent Agon, complex Episodes, and serene Mozartiana. Jennifer Fournier in Mozartiana. […]
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” —Voltaire Yesterday was a traumatic one for Boston, and the rest of the nation. Dance Magazine is based in NYC but several of our staffers are either from Boston or attended college there. Today when we […]
CityDance paves the way for students and pros to collaborate. CityDance students and members of Hubbard Street 2 warm up for a dress rehearsal. Photo: Theo Kossenas/Media 4 Artists, Courtesy CityDance. “Pronounciate your feet,” Taryn Kaschock Russell declared to 28 of CityDance’s ballet students last fall during a master class in the airy […]
Last night we saw girl power at the Golden Globes, with those daredevils Tina Fey and Amy Poehler playing cock (I mean hens) of the roost in Hollywood. It was noted that their humor was funnier—and kinder—than their predecessor’s. Well, the dance world has its own girl power on the way. In two weeks, Gotham […]
Performing for a huge opera house is one thing, but performing for a few presenters in a small space, without full production values, can be even more nerve-wracking. But that’s what hundreds of dancers will do this coming weekend in NYC for the APAP conference, organized by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. The people […]
Earth Dancing Every year the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers hold a rousing powwow on the Lower East Side. A New York troupe founded in 1963 by a group of Native Americans, the Thunderbird dancers represent a variety of nations descended from Mohawk, Hopi, Winnebago, and San Blas peoples. They are not professional, but they’ve handed […]
Inside off-Broadway’s smash hit Sleep No More Leslie Kraus and Paul Zivkovich, Photo: Christopher Duggan A site-specific evening of blockbuster proportions, Sleep No More has been off-Broadway’s hottest ticket for two years, and is still going strong. Its themed nights, including the upcoming New Year’s Eve banquet and after-party, keep both […]
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