Andrea Miller Premieres a New Take on a 100-Year-Old Nijinska Ballet at English National Ballet
Choreographer Andrea Miller is known for works that stretch the body to extremes and portray a community on the edge.
Choreographer Andrea Miller is known for works that stretch the body to extremes and portray a community on the edge.
Winners of the Dance Magazine Awards, from 1954 to the present
As a student, Maria Caruso was told that her body might be better suited to modern dance than ballet. “But I didn’t want to give up my pointe shoes,” she says. “So then I was told to get a breast reduction. To change the way my body looks. And I just didn’t understand that. Why […]
The brilliant dance writer Sally Banes, who pioneered a new way to write about dance as a social phenomenon, died on June 14, 2020 of ovarian cancer. Banes visited New York in October 1973 with a standard assignment: to write a book on modern dance for Chicago Review Press. Because of her curiosity about choreography, […]
When Arthur Mitchell set out to prove that African Americans could excel in ballet, there were many skeptics. He not only created a world-class ballet company—Dance Theatre of Harlem—but he launched a discussion about race and ballet that we are still engaged in. Who was Arthur Mitchell and how did he get the chutzpah to […]
Throughout his remarkable career, the fiercely determined, intelligent and energetic Arthur Mitchell has become accustomed to being called a trailblazer. “Being a typical Aries, I like being the first,” he says, laughing. “That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.” This is true, especially when it comes to the discussion at the forefront of today’s […]
New Yorkers are getting revved to see this company, which hasn’t come to the U.S. in 16 years. We know they are elegant, refined, and highly technical. But isn’t that true of any ballet company? What, really, sets them apart? Most of the dancers come right out of the POB school, but what does that […]
At the end of the Dance Magazine Awards last night, editor at large Wendy Perron summed up the event perfectly: “I feel so nourished,” she said. Tiler Peck in Balanchine’s “Fascinatin’ Rhythm.” PC Christopher Duggan. It was an exceptionally moving evening filled with heartfelt dances and profoundly honest speeches. What a treat it was to […]