by Laura Cappelle | Sep 11, 2011 | Company Life
Ted Brandsen has made the Dutch National Ballet more national…and international. Onstage, Dutch National Ballet dancers have a no-nonsense energy and an intoxicating confidence—and for good reason: The company has been on the rise since Ted Brandsen took...
by Laura Jacobs | Jul 11, 2011 | Company Life
Suzanne Farrell has always done things her own way. In the 1960s and ’70s, when she rose to stardom as George Balanchine’s preeminent muse at New York City Ballet, she set the standard for dancing that was committed, mercurial and marvelously alive to the...
by Allan Ulrich | May 15, 2011 | Company Life
It’s not easy to catch artistic director Helgi Tomasson for a chat mid-season at San Francisco Ballet. The company must squeeze eight programs into little more than three months a year at the War Memorial Opera House (the San Francisco Opera is the other principal...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Feb 27, 2011 | Company Life
When it was announced last summer that Nacho Duato would become artistic director of St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet, the most common reaction was: Huh? How could the choreographer who transformed Spain’s Compañia Nacional de Danza into a contemporary...
by Pointe Magazine | Jan 18, 2011 | Company Life
Gil Boggs’ easy manner with his Colorado Ballet dancers sometimes makes him seem more like a colleague than a director. When principals Chandra Kuykendell and Igor Vassine bobble a step while rehearsing the Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux, Boggs, wearing a faded black...
by Laura Cappelle | Dec 8, 2010 | Company Life
New director Yuri Burlaka is leading the historic institution into the 21st century. Even on a Friday morning in the midst of a three-week tour to London, the atmosphere in a Bolshoi company class is reverential. There’s no chatting or laughing at the barre. The...
by Steve Wilson | Jul 29, 2010 | Company Life
Ballet Austin’s Stephen Mills stretches his dancers and his audiences. On the brink of insanity, Hamlet struggles with three alter-egos in a sequence that blends balletic precision with modern dance elasticity. By fusing the timeless with the contemporary, ...
by Michael Crabb | Jun 1, 2010 | Company Life
Louis Robitaille has put BJM Danse Montréal at theforefront of all that’s edgy and cool in contemporary ballet. Athletic, versatile and physically beautiful, the dancers of BJM Danse Montréal, formerly Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, have dazzled audiences worldwide for...