by Martha Anne Toll | Oct 4, 2023 | News, The Latest
Globetrotting choreographer Alexei Ratmansky is a peculiarly 21st-century figure. Having served as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, and then artist in residence first at American Ballet Theatre and now New York City Ballet, he embodies geopolitics in a...
by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 14, 2022 | News, The Latest
We breathe, eat and sleep dance. Why not read it, too? This has been a banner year for dance books—we’ve already shared news about the release of Toni Bentley’s Serenade, Jennifer Homans’ Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century and more. And the list is...
by Sophie Bress | Aug 24, 2022 | News, The Latest
As summer draws to a close, you might be finishing off your summer reading list and looking for a few new books to dive into for fall. This season, it seems authors have been particularly inspired by the world of ballet, and former and current dancers alike are...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 17, 2021 | News, The Latest
There’s no fighting it—winter is coming. And whether you’re looking for the perfect holiday gift for your favorite dancer or for a good excuse to curl up on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate, we have the book for you. Five new ballet biographies and...
by April Deocariza | Nov 9, 2021 | News, The Latest
For American Ballet Theatre principal Thomas Forster, his career has provided not only a good paycheck, but the opportunity to travel the world. Despite this, when he tells people he is a professional ballet dancer, he still finds himself fielding questions like “But...
by Lydia Murray | Aug 11, 2021 | News, Profiles, The Latest
American Ballet Theatre principal James Whiteside is not one to stand still. His creative repertoire includes dance, choreography, photography, music and drag, performing the latter two through the alter egos of JbDubs and Ühu Betch. Recently, Whiteside took on a new...
by April Deocariza | Jul 20, 2021 | The Latest
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...
by April Deocariza | Jun 30, 2021 | The Latest
In 2017, journalist Chloe Angyal was working on a story about the astronomically high rates of bullying among boys who do ballet. Angyal, who has an undergraduate degree in sociology, found the pages of her story kept ballooning as she began to explain to readers the...