Beau Campbell finishes her season with Ballet Arizona in late spring. Then the company takes a two-month summer break, but Campbell, 26, doesn’t. After a short vacation (two weeks in Europe last year), she gets into her Toyota and drives from Phoenix to her native California. Robert Dekkers’ Post:Ballet gets going in San Francisco in […]
David Hallberg is everywhere right now—from the Bolshoi and ABT to fashion magazines to TV. Today, NOWNESS.com, a luxury lifestyle website, premiered a new short dance film called “Hallberg at Work” featuring the ballet star in the ABT studios, performing a solo created for him by Marcelo Gomes. It’s an intense, up-close five-minute clip that […]
Yesterday, Ballet San Jose named former American Ballet Theatre principal Jose Manuel Carreño its new artistic director, effective September 3, 2013. As one of the most admired dancers of the past two decades, Carreño brings plenty of experience to the job, and strengthens the growing relationship between BSJ and ABT. BSJ has changed direction […]
There’s only one thing better than a ballet nerd fully embracing his white tights stereotypes: A ballet nerd doing so while being directed and filmed by contemporary cool kid Alexander Ekman. Take a look at this cheeky film of ABT’s adorably dorky Daniil Simkin dancing and bowing his way through New York City to Lincoln […]
David Hallberg has reached unprecedented heights as an American dancer. His switch from jazz to ballet as a teenager, his promotion to principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre at the age of 23, his status as the first American star at the Bolshoi Ballet—these milestones were the focus of an hour-long interview with Kennedy Center […]
Project Plié American Ballet Theatre’s new diversity initiative Diversity remains one of ballet’s biggest issues, and American Ballet Theatre hopes to be a leader in finding a solution. “We need to be relevant to broader communities,” says chief executive officer Rachel Moore. “The demographics of this country are radically changing. If ballet companies don’t embrace […]
American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School has come a long way in the short decade since it was founded. So far, in fact, that it’s part of a select group of schools invited to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as part of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s celebration of its 240th anniversary. Last […]
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 […]