by April Deocariza | Mar 24, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Christopher Wheeldon is no stranger to translating complex and imaginative narratives into full-length ballets, with classics like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter’s Tale. He returns this month to American Ballet Theatre with the U.S. premiere of Like...
by Claudia Bauer | Apr 28, 2020 | Career, Profiles, The Latest
In a whirlwind 36 hours in mid-March, Royal Ballet principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson performed Aurora in the Mariinsky Ballet’s production of The Sleeping Beauty, then returned to England and went into coronavirus lockdown in a house outside London. She told...
by Toba Singer | Feb 13, 2020 | Career, News, Profiles
Six-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer Natasha Katz has lit such Broadway musical hits as Frozen, Hello Dolly! and A Chorus Line. She is also one of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s biggest collaborators, designing the lighting for works such as...
by Rachel Caldwell For Dance Magazine | Dec 4, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, News
Marie and Franz have a new guest at their Christmas Eve party this year. Emma Lookatch and Larke Johnson, both dancers in the Adaptive Dance Program at Joffrey Academy of Dance: Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, are alternating in the new role of Worker Girl. It...
by Rachel Hellwig | Jul 2, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
You might be on layoff or have a break from your summer intensive today, but ballet is probably still on your brain. That’s okay—kick back, relax and enjoy these American-themed ballet videos. Justin Peck’s “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes”...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 5, 2019 | Profiles
When Christopher Wheeldon’s celebrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland returns to National Ballet of Canada’s stage this week, there will be one big change. First soloist Chelsy Meiss will dance the role of the quirky, tapping Mad Hatter, the first...
by Claudia Bauer | Dec 25, 2018 | Profiles
If a dancer is very lucky, and very prepared, one performance can transform their career. Lonnie Weeks was that dancer on the opening night of San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival in April. Chosen by Christopher Wheeldon for the emotionally wrenching final...
by Courtney Escoyne | Oct 25, 2018 | Just for fun
When American Ballet Theatre announced yesterday that it would be adding Jane Eyre to its stable of narrative full-lengths, the English nerds in the DM offices (read: most of us) got pretty excited. Cathy Marston’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic...