by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2024 | Pointe+, Technique, Training
There is nothing quite as beautiful as a smooth and perfectly cantilevered penché. “I love the idea of what penché represents,” says Alicia Graf Mack, dean and director of the dance division at The Juilliard School. “It is one of the largest iterations of a simple...
by Jennifer Stahl For Dance Magazine | Apr 30, 2020 | Career, The Latest
One of the most difficult parts of this pandemic is coming to terms with the fact that, not only are almost all artists out of work right now, for some, the work won’t be there any more when the world opens back up: not all dance companies and businesses will...
by Julia Guiheen | Feb 14, 2018 | Profiles, Viral Videos
Alicia Graf Mack has consistently defied just about every limitation and expectation throughout her dance career. She was a leading performer with three incredible companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, from which she retired in 2016, Dance Theatre of Harlem...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 4, 2017 | Profiles
When American Ballet Theatre soloist Calvin Royal III and New York City Ballet soloist Unity Phelan burst into the opening diagonal of George Balanchine’s Agon on Monday, they had reason to be nervous. Sitting in the downstage corner of Columbia...