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Collage Dance Collective Presents Diverse Works for New Audiences in Memphis

Collage Dance Collective Presents Diverse Works for New Audiences in Memphis

by Shaté L. Hayes | Jul 15, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram

With scores from Tchaikovsky to Aretha Franklin and dancers from French Guiana to Brazil, Collage Dance Collective is as rich in variety and culture as its local community. Establishing roots in Memphis, Tennessee, known for its blues and civil rights history, was an...
Alabama Ballet’s Repertoire Offers Dancers Chances to Perform Works by Some of Ballet’s Biggest Names

Alabama Ballet’s Repertoire Offers Dancers Chances to Perform Works by Some of Ballet’s Biggest Names

by Rachel Hellwig | May 21, 2020 | Career, Company Life

Flocks of swans, waltzing flowers, bourréeing phantoms and leaping princes are all regular sights in rehearsals at Alabama Ballet’s downtown Birmingham studios. Throughout its season, the company produces classical story ballets as well as works by major names...
From Pick-Up to Premieres: How BalletX Has Grown Into a Coveted Company Prioritizing New Work

From Pick-Up to Premieres: How BalletX Has Grown Into a Coveted Company Prioritizing New Work

by Ellen Dunkel | Feb 5, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram

When Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan were forming BalletX in 2005, they had big dreams: Still dancers with Pennsylvania Ballet, they aspired for their contemporary ballet company to perform at Jacob’s Pillow and Vail Dance Festival. They liked the idea of...
American Contemporary Ballet Director Lincoln Jones is Making Ballet Relevant in Los Angeles

American Contemporary Ballet Director Lincoln Jones is Making Ballet Relevant in Los Angeles

by Joseph Carman | Nov 14, 2019 | Career, Instagram

Lincoln Jones felt there was a pertinence missing from ballet when he decided to form American Contemporary Ballet. “People looking at a film today can pick apart screenwriting versus art direction and editing,” says Jones. “They are really...
Ballet Prodigy Li Cunxin Was a Stockbroker Before He Became Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director

Ballet Prodigy Li Cunxin Was a Stockbroker Before He Became Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director

by Laura Cappelle | Sep 18, 2019 | Career, Profiles

An artistic director’s position was far from Li Cunxin’s mind when the Brisbane-based Queensland Ballet came calling in 2012. Since his retirement from the stage in 1999, the Chinese-Australian dancer had embarked on a highly successful career at the helm...
How Hong Kong Ballet’s Visibility Has Swiftly Increased Under Septime Webre

How Hong Kong Ballet’s Visibility Has Swiftly Increased Under Septime Webre

by Barry Kerollis | Jun 21, 2019 | Career, Company Life

“Opportunities always come when you least expect them,” says Septime Webre. In 2016, he’d left The Washington Ballet, after 17 years as artistic director, to focus on his choreography career. Halfway around the world in East Asia, Hong Kong Ballet...
How Boutique Troupe Avant Chamber Ballet Blossomed in Dallas

How Boutique Troupe Avant Chamber Ballet Blossomed in Dallas

by Nancy Wozny | May 5, 2019 | Career, Company Life

Katie Cooper knows an opportunity when she sees one. When the Dallas-area Metropolitan Classical Ballet—where she’d danced for six years—shuttered its doors, she saw an opening for a new company: her own. “There were ballet dancers who needed...
Creation is King at the Dual-City Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Creation is King at the Dual-City Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

by Gavin Larsen | Mar 14, 2019 | Career, Company Life, Director's Notes

In 1996, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet artistic director Tom Mossbrucker was a veteran Joffrey Ballet dancer with no aspirations to direct a company. But while visiting a Colorado music festival with his partner, Jean-Philippe Malaty, also a dancer, a chance encounter changed...
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