Career Transition For Dancers’ 25th Anniversary Career Transition For Dancers’ annual gala is always a star-studded affair, and this year’s November 8 performance, honoring Twyla Tharp, is no exception. But the 2010 edition has extra sparkle: It’s the nonprofit group’s 25th anniversary. Over that quarter century, CTFD has helped thousands of dancers in 47 states […]
Go Ask Alice Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland arrives at The Royal. In Lewis Carroll’s classic books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the eternally curious Alice is no shrinking violet—and she won’t be in Christopher Wheeldon’s new Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, either. “Alice is a strong-minded girl in […]
This morning, there was a very interesting article in the New York Times’ Style section about Benjamin Millepied. It’s quite long, and pretty thought-provoking. As we all know, Millepied is engaged to Hollywood star Natalie Portman (of Black Swan), and the couple is also expecting a baby. The article explores his rise to fame, and […]
Cuban Panache Comes To DC Ballet Nacional de Cuba returns to the Kennedy Center. By Abi Stafford This May, Ballet Nacional de Cuba will perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, for the first time in 10 years. New York City Ballet principal Abi Stafford, who danced in Havana at the […]
Senior editor Jenny Stahl recently called New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht “Superman,” and I can’t think of a better way to describe the phenomenally talented dancer and teacher, who seems to be everywhere at once these days. (We recently posted a poll asking who your favorite dancer-teacher was, and Ulbricht cleaned up.) Now […]
Millepied Premieres L.A. Dance Project The former NYCB principal takes his next step. Black Swan choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied will raise the profile of Los Angeles dance this September, when his L.A. Dance Project debuts at the city’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. The program, commissioned by L.A.’s Music Center, […]
What makes Los Angeles such an elusive place for ballet? The city is a cultural capital when you look at it in terms of music, theater and visual art, not to mention film. But for some reason, concert dance has never been able to set down roots with any permanence or prestige. Even Los Angeles […]
Los Angeles is getting all the best dance news lately. Just weeks after the premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project, University of Southern California announced that it will launch its own dance department in 2015, in a brand new building that will be called the Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center. The program will have […]