New York City Ballet will be three male principals short this season. Due to “inappropriate communications,” Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro have been suspended without pay until 2019, and Chase Finlay has resigned, effective immediately, according to The New York Times. (Finlay’s name has already disappeared from the company roster on nycballet.com.) A statement from […]
“Jerry, throughout his life, wanted a world where races, cultures and people came together without conflict and hate and anger, but lovingly, to make a community.” These words were spoken earlier this week by Jacques d’Amboise at an event titled Upper West Side Story: A Celebration of Jerome Robbins, hosted by National Dance Institute, which […]
Earlier this week, the Broadway revival of Roger and Hammerstein’s Carousel, choreographed by Justin Peck and featuring New York City Ballet dancers Amar Ramasar and Brittany Pollack, was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Choreography. Today, we’re throwing it back to the 1956 film version, which features an earlier NYCB star: longtime principal Jacques […]
In the fall of 2016, Miami City Ballet corps dancer Rebecca King Ferraro and former MCB corps member Michael Sean Breeden started Conversations on Dance, a podcast dedicated to giving listeners an inside look into the world of professional ballet by interviewing “some of the ballet world’s best and brightest.” Their episodes cover training, history […]
Actress Jennifer Garner just proved she might be ballet’s biggest celeb fan yet with her new “Tutu Tuesday” posts on Instagram. Putting her “instastalking knowledge” to work as she calls it, Garner decided to highlight NYCB’s Tiler Peck as her first “Tutu Tuesday” feature, sharing a clip of her and Amar Ramasar dancing in Justin […]
By now, we’ve come to expect the usual celebrity set like Sarah Jessica Parker and Katie Holmes at big nights in ballet like the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre galas. But actress Jennifer Garner just proved she might be ballet’s biggest celeb fan yet with her new “Tutu Tuesday” posts on Instagram. […]
Fall is in full swing; as the weather grows cooler, all we want to do is curl up with an autumnal treat (try these four pumpkin recipes) and a good movie. Luckily, Netflix has some of our favorite dance documentaries available for streaming. So next time you’re settling down for a night in, look no […]
New York City Ballet principal dancer Rebecca Krohn will take her final bow with the company this Saturday night. Krohn joined NYCB as an apprentice in the fall of 1998 and slowly rose through the ranks, becoming a principal in 2012. Though Krohn is best known for her flawless execution of classic Balanchine leotard ballets, […]