Wonder what life is like these days for David Hallberg? The Chicago Sun Times’ Hedy Weiss checks in with the Bolshoi and ABT star one year after he became the first American to join Moscow’s beloved ballet company. He perform Giselle on Saturday night with ABT at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. His partner for the performance […]
Hamlet at National Ballet of Canada Kevin O’Day’s Hamlet, made in 2008 for the Stuttgart Ballet, is a haunting, emotional take on Shakespeare’s tragedy. The National Ballet of Canada will give the work its North American premiere this June. The Australian Ballet in NYC After a 13-year absence, The Australian Ballet returns to New York […]
An earthquake in Portland this week sent rumbles throughout the national dance scene. It was centered at the studios of Oregon Ballet Theatre on Wednesday, when artistic director Christopher Stowell announced to the dancers and staff that he was resigning. It’s no secret that OBT, like so many American ballet companies, has been struggling financially. […]
BRITTANY STONE Boston Ballet Everything about Brittany Stone says “ballerina”: Her fluid port de bras, her lithe frame, her long legs. But until seven years ago she was a bona fide comp kid, performing jazz and tap and having, she insists, “no real ballet technique at all.” When Stone was 13, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis […]
The Clive Barnes Awards—given by the Clive Barnes Foundation in honor of the late New York Times, New York Post and Dance Magazine critic—have a history of recognizing talented dancers on the cusp of a career milestone. In 2010, New York City Ballet’s Chase Finlay took home the prize; a year later, he was promoted […]
An integral portion of Le Corsaire’s first act is the Odalisque pas de trois—a dance by three slave girls whom the audience knows little about. Choreographed to a grandiose score, the Odalisque variations act as an interlude in the ballet’s larger plot. Their precise and petite steps cater to the meekness and femininity of the role. This recording […]
As if Daniel Ulbricht didn’t already have enough on his plate. In addition to dazzling audiences at New York City Ballet and serving as artistic advisor for Manhattan Youth Ballet, he’s co-producing Dance Against Cancer: An Evening to Benefit the American Cancer Society. Held tonight at the AXA Equitable Theater in NYC, the event features […]
Mayeux in the studio. Photo by Ani Collier, Courtesy Sin Gogolak. For the last two decades, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has shown an exciting and edgy side of ballet. This continues into their 20th-anniversary season (running now through Nov. 30 at The Joyce in NYC) with a program including a mix of company classics, as well as two world premieres […]