by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 16, 2018 | News, Profiles
A telegram from Lincoln Kirstein to Arthur Mitchell inviting him to join New York City Ballet; an Al Hirschfeld drawing of Suzanne Farrell and Mitchell in Balanchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; a sparkly red and purple Firebird costume and headpiece from Dance...
by Avichai Scher | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Body
When Erin Arbuckle takes ballet class wearing her New York City Marathon shirt, teachers often ask her, “You didn’t actually run that, did you?” She did, twice, and she’s running again this year on November 5. Arbuckle, 28, a graduate of School...
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...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Lauren Post and Luis Ribagorda in ABT’s 2010 Innovation Initiative performance. (Photo by Gene Schiavone) American Ballet Theatre’s Innovation Initiative is a two-week choreographic workshop that supports emerging choreographers within...