Benjamin Millepied has been named as the next director of dance at the Paris Opéra Ballet. He will succeed current director Brigitte Lefèvre starting in October 2014. Although most of Millepied’s career—as both a dancer with New York City Ballet and a freelance choreographer, notably for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan—has so far been based in […]
Last week, New York City Ballet announced that four beloved principals—Jenifer Ringer, Jonathan Stafford, Janie Taylor and Sébastien Marcovici—will retire during the company’s winter and spring seasons. All four have planned their next steps. Ringer is about to release a memoir (more on that in our February/March issue); Stafford will become a ballet master with […]
We had a hunch that when Jenifer Ringer retired earlier this month, she wasn’t saying “goodbye” to dance at large. The former New York City Ballet principal (and author of Dancing Through It) will be moving to California to direct Colburn Dance Academy, a new pre-professional dance program formed by The Colburn School, a performing […]
As if Wendy Whelan’s imminent retirement wasn’t a hard enough pill to swallow, news that Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Carla Körbes will retire in June 2015 makes this an even sadder year for ballet. Körbes started her career at New York City Ballet, before being hired as a soloist at PNB in 2005. In 2006 she […]
The endless love affair between dance and fashion will never get old. Especially when photographic geniuses like Annie Leibovitz compose moments like this one: Leibovitz’s photographs for Vogue are usually whimsical, romantic and downright inspired. In these, she’s succeeded again, capturing the magic of the Palais Garnier—home of the Paris Opera Ballet. Hamish Bowles wrote the magazine’s […]
Fresh off the heels of Aurélie Dupont’s appointment as artistic director at the Paris Opéra Ballet, and Julie Kent’s appointment to the same position at The Washington Ballet, further changes are hitting the ballet world. This morning Johan Kobborg, international star and director of the National Ballet of Romania, tweeted that his name had been […]