A Conversation with Gloria Fokine September 1, 2004 Printed in Ballet Review, Spring 2007 (WP) Wendy Perron, editor in chief, Dance Magazine (FOKINE) Gloria Fokine, born Gloria González Negreira in Havana in 1925 WP:  What are your earliest memories of seeing dance? FOKINE:  In Cuba there was an organization called Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical, which was […]

Sadler’s Wells Theatre and the Barbican London, England June 6–July 9, 2012 Seven weeks before the 2012 Olympics opened in London, the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch began a marathon of its own. Dividing its time between Sadler’s Wells and the Barbican, the company presented a spectacular series of 10 evening-long works under the umbrella title […]

Onstage or off, Madison Keesler has riveting eyes. A bewitching intensity shines from their depths, which are set in a pretty, delicate face. At 21, Keesler, a San Francisco Ballet corps member, has already drawn notice in soloist roles. In Helgi Tomasson’s Giselle, her engaging glances lent a girlish appeal to her strong  technique in […]

A native of Anchorage, Alaska, John Heginbotham graduated from the Juilliard School in 1993 and joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1998. He has also danced with Susan Marshall, Pilobolus (as a guest artist), John Jasperse, and Ben Munisteri. Having taught many master classes on tour with MMDG, he now teaches for the Brooklyn […]