Trey McIntyre and Matthew Neenan will coach dancers at the 2014 USA IBC.   2010 USA IBC contemporary competitors. Photo by Richard Finkelstein, Courtesy USA IBC. In the contemporary round at ballet competitions, dancers often perform wildly varying styles—it’s not uncommon to see neoclassical pointework followed by barefooted modern dance. But the USA International Ballet […]

After a decade with TMP, Trey McIntyre goes freelance.   McIntyre rehearsing his Mercury Half-Life. Photo by Kyle Morck, Courtesy TMP. Following the troupe’s performances at Jacob’s Pillow next month, Trey McIntyre Project’s dancers will disband to allow artistic director Trey McIntyre to focus on freelance choreography, photography and film under the TMP name. “I’ve […]

Something Fresh in Edinburgh The Edinburgh International Festival brings a handful of dance front-runners to Scotland this year. Brazil-based Deborah Colker Dance Company has taken Onegin (see “Turning Into Tatiana,” p. 30) and transported it onto a huge geometric tree in Colker’s European premiere of her Tatyana. The Mariinsky Ballet also jumps on the “updated […]