by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2020 | News, The Latest
Here’s something new to add to your quarantine watch list: Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet, a new documentary by Icarus Films. Directed by Denis Sneguirev, the doc (which will be available for streaming and on DVD starting May 12) explores the...
by Marina Harss | Feb 20, 2020 | News, The Latest
This spring, American Ballet Theatre unveils Of Love and Rage, a new evening-length work based on an unlikely source: a tale of love and adventure written in the first century AD. We’re all aware of Greek mythology, of the tragedies and of the Greek...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 9, 2020 | News
Bolshoi fans, listen up: On Sunday, January 26, the company will broadcast Alexei Ratmansky’s new production of Giselle—captured from a live performance in Moscow earlier that day—to over 450 North American movie theaters as part of its Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema...
by Marina Harss For Dance Magazine | Oct 17, 2019 | Career, Profiles
For decades the name Alicia Alonso has been virtually synonymous with Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the company she co-founded in Havana in 1948. Alonso died on October 17, just shy of what would have been her 99th birthday. In recent years, she had stepped back from...
by Marina Harss For Dance Magazine | Jul 28, 2019 | Profiles
Roman Mejia is only 19, and he has the energy to prove it; in the studio and onstage at New York City Ballet, this standout corps member bursts with a kind of uncontainable ebullience. Like his idol, Edward Villella, he specializes in extroverted, allegro roles: Puck...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 19, 2019 | News
This year marks Alexei Ratmansky’s 10th anniversary as artist in residence of American Ballet Theatre. American Ballet Theatre on Instagram: “BY FAR one of Alexei’s most challenging and spectacular creations on us yet! ‘THE SEASONS’ makes its WORLD PREMIERE...
by Marina Harss | Mar 31, 2019 | News, Profiles
In recent years, Royal Ballet principal and international touring artist Natalia Osipova has curated her own evenings of new works, collaborating with a slew of contemporary choreographers. The newest of these is Pure Dance, which premiered last September at...
by Emma Sandall For Dance Magazine | Jan 6, 2019 | Training
Just before retiring in 2015, Sylvie Guillem appeared on “HARDtalk with Zeinab Badawi,” the BBC’s hard-hitting interview program. Badawi told Guillem, “Clement Crisp of the Financial Times, 14 years ago, described your dancing as vulgar.”...