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When Tiler Peck was 3, her mother, a dance teacher in Bakersfield, California, taught her two two-minute dance routines which the toddler zipped through with flair. At 9 she started on pointe and a few months later danced Clara (on pointe) in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in California. By 12 she had danced the […]

What’s changing at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard   Eulalia Ayguade Farro of Akram Khan Company, teaching a workshop at Yale. Photo: Michael Marsland, Courtesy YDT   A low drumbeat pulses as 13 intensely focused students, arranged in two lines, try to keep up with its rhythm. Arms lash out; hands sculpt the air; legs drop […]

Shaping Sound—the company created by Travis Wall, Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance, and Kyle Robinson (see “Who Needs the Drama” in your July issue)—brought its loud and darkly-lit That’s Where I’ll Be Waiting production to the Beacon Theater in Manhattan last night. (One reviewer’s opinion, here.) In a house full of screaming teens and their moms, […]

American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House New York, NY May 31–June 3, 2013   At right: Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomes in Ratmansky’s Symphony #9. Photo by Marty Sohl, Courtesy ABT.     Alexei Ratmansky’s “Shostakovich Trilogy,” the most anticipated ballet premiere of the New York season, met lofty expectations. The choreographer, artist in residence […]

Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy turned out to be that rare thing: a new full-evening ballet not tied to a story, but with enough emotional weight for the audience to feel stimulated and satisfied. It’s a thought-provoking work of art, and it was great to see the audience at the premiere respond to it as warmly as […]

Tonight at the Met Opera House, American Ballet Theatre’s spellbinding Hee Seo—who graces the cover of our May issue—will reprise her role as Tatiana, the passion-wrenched heroine of Cranko’s Onegin. As Evan McKie wrote in “Turning into Tatiana” (Aug.), “It is not easy to strike the right balance of dancing and acting abilities or to […]

Seo as Tatiana in Cranko’s  Onegin at ABT. Photo by Nathan Sayers.     At the American Ballet Theatre studios in downtown Manhattan, Hee Seo explodes through the air in a jeté, eyes flashing, energy shooting through her luxuriously arched feet. Rippling her arms from her lithe back, her Odile gleefully seduces soloist Alexandre Hammoudi’s Prince Siegfried, […]

DVDs on The Royal Ballet, Zakharova and Hallberg in Sleeping Beauty, Savion Glover; Contemporary Dance in Cuba book; Alexander Ekman’s short film 40 M Under     Sleeping Beauty, on the Evening with The Royal Ballet DVD. Photo © Bill Cooper, Courtesy Naxos. DVDs   An Evening with The Royal Ballet Opus Arte. 90 minutes. […]