American Ballet Theatre just wrapped up its 2015 spring season, but that doesn’t mean newly promoted principal Misty Copeland is slowing down any. Yesterday, The New York Times announced that from August 25–September 5, Copeland will be dancing—and singing—as Ivy Smith in the Broadway musical On the Town. (New York City Ballet principal Megan Fairchild […]
New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin will step into the role of Ivy Smith, aka Miss Turnstiles, from August 11–23 in the Broadway musical On the Town. She’ll be filling in for New York City Ballet principal Megan Fairchild who will take her last Broadway bow (for now!) on August 9. Pazcoguin will be […]
The worlds of ballet and musical theater are set to collide this year as work gets underway on two stagings with very different source materials. Earlier this month, Broadway producer Kevin McCollum, film director Darren Aronofsky, and the American Repertory Theater held a workshop for a musical adaptation of Aronofsky’s 2010 film Black Swan. Sonya […]
On a chilly day last October, Jasmine Jimison arrived at the San Francisco Ballet studios to start her third week of understudying Giselle. As a second-year soloist, she was content to rehearse at the back of the room and eager to learn the role. Little did she foresee that it would soon elevate her from […]
2021 is quickly becoming the year of ballet-book releases, and New York City Ballet fans have double the reason to be excited. Two of the company’s leading women have chronicled their respective journeys in publications hitting shelves this year. Soloist Georgina Pazcoguin is launching her memoir, Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Henry […]
Sono Osato, a trailblazing ballet and musical theater dancer, passed away last Wednesday at her home in New York City. Best known for originating the role of Miss Turnstiles in Jerome Robbins’ hit On the Town—one of Broadway’s first non-segregated musicals—Osato got her start at 14 as the youngest member of the Ballets Russes de […]
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Houston Ballet Brings a World Premiere to Jacob’s Pillow August 15-18 , for the first time in almost four decades, Houston Ballet is appearing at Jacob’s Pillow, the famous summer dance festival in Becket, MA. Headlining the program is Just, a world […]
One of the titans among choreographers of the 20th century, Jerome Robbins will be celebrated by a number of ballet companies worldwide in 2018 for the centennial of his birth. He died in 1998 at age 79 after a prolific career. His rare talent enabled him to direct and choreograph Broadway hits (West Side Story, […]