News of Note: What You Might Have Missed in January 2025
Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from January 2025.
How Do Choreographers Bring Something Fresh to Music We've Heard Over and Over?
In 2007, Oregon Ballet Theatre asked Nicolo Fonte to choreograph a ballet to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. “I said, ‘No way. I’m not going near it,’ ” recalls Fonte. “I don’t want to compete with the Béjart version, ice skaters or the movie 10. No, no, no!” But Fonte’s husband encouraged him to “just listen and […]