Southern California becomes a destination for world-class training. Southern California gets a bad rap. It may be a destination for commercial dance careers, but when it comes to classical and contemporary dance, it’s long been overlooked. Former New York City Ballet star Jenifer Ringer sums up the prevailing myth: “In New York City, there […]
The entire world was talking about Misty Copeland yesterday. As soon as it was announced that she’d been promoted to principal, The New York Times sent out a breaking news alert, and put her story on the front page of its website. Every outlet from CNN to Buzzfeed to CatChannel.com (seriously!) covered the news—there were […]
I guess my list is pretty long. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself; there were so many performances and artists that ranked high in my personal accounting. Best new choreography • Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming at Danspace: She broke not only the fourth wall but the floor too, making the audience part of […]
Batsheva Dance Company has reached a new level of acclaim, both for its dancers and its artistic director Ohad Naharin. The word spread from coast to coast about how amazing the touring Sadeh21 has been. Audiences left the theater feeling challenged, fulfilled and full of wonder. Social media carried messages from top ballet dancers like […]
He’s not David Hallberg, but he’s tall and thin, has beautiful feet and magnificent ballon, and is now in a Russian ballet company. Meet Mario Vitale Labrador, the 24-year-old from the Bay Area who graduated from the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow and then joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet. Last April he won some of the top […]
The Bolshoi Ballet is all about making a big splash. So it’s no surprise that just as bunheads everywhere have begun clearing their schedules on October 1 for the epic 20-hour World Ballet Day livestream, the Bolshoi’s stealing a bit of pre-game thunder. A new online video series, which launched today on the YouTube channel […]
We will be excited to see the Bolshoi no matter what rep they are doing. The dancers deliver on a big scale (the word “bolshoi” means big), the tradition of handing down the classics is unbroken, and for this tour they are traveling with the Bolshoi orchestra. Plus, our sympathy is at an all-time high […]
Where is the company headed after a tumultuous year of scandal? Dance Magazine asked noted dance critic Ismene Brown for her take. The Bolshoi’s historic theater. Photo by Thinkstock. The world-famous Bolshoi Ballet became world-infamous last year. In January 2013 its artistic director was attacked with sulphuric acid, maimed and part-blinded—due to a […]
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