Last year, we brought you the first ever Great Nutcracker Roundup, a listing of 71 of our nation’s professional Nutcrackers, organized by state. Now we’re back, and this year we’ve included 99 productions in 40 states. So as you get ready to sit down to your turkey (or tofurkey) dinner this week, take a look […]
Last week, Variety reported that Sergei Polunin would reunite with the team behind Dancer for another documentary. “Where ‘Dancer’ looked at his whole life, family and influences,” director Steven Cantor said, ” ‘Satori’ will focus more squarely on his creative process as performer and, for the first time ever, choreographer.” The title references a poorly […]
This week, 62 of the world’s top young dancers trained in the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus gathered in Toronto for the annual Genée International Ballet Competition. Each year, the Genée is hosted by a different country; this was its first turn in Canada since 2008. After a week of intensive coaching and competition, the […]
New York City Ballet soloist Claire Kretzschmar has had the chance to perform just about everywhere: New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, you name it. But one of her most inspiring performance opportunities came a little less than a month ago, dancing with her friends on the wooden floor of a repurposed exercise room in […]
We all know dance careers are temporary. But this season, it feels like we’re saying goodbye to more stars than usual. Many have turned to social media to share their last curtain calls, thoughts on what it feels like to say farewell to performing, and insights into the ways that dancing has made them who […]
Say you’re perpetually impeccable designer Thom Browne. Say you’re planning your Spring 2020 Paris menswear show along a “Versailles country club” theme. Say you want a world-class danseur to open the show with some kind of appropriately fabulous choreography. Who do you call? James Whiteside, of course. On Saturday, the American Ballet Theatre principal—wearing pointe […]
Story ballets that debut during American Ballet Theatre’s spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House are always the subject of much curiosity—and, sometimes, much debate. Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre was no different. The ballet follows the eponymous heroine of Charlotte Brönte’s novel as she grows from a willful orphan to a self-possessed governess, charting her […]
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. ABT Presents Cathy Marston’s “Jane Eyre” American Ballet Theatre is known as a home for classical story ballets, but this summer the company adds a more modern take to its repertoire. Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre will have its U.S. premiere June 4–10 […]