by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 30, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Amy Hall Garner was in Chicago choreographing the musical Dream Girls when she got a phone call from New York City Ballet associate artistic director Wendy Whelan. It was the summer of 2022, and the call came as a surprise. Whelan, Garner explains, had seen her work...
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 9, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Choreographers line up to update Swan Lake or The Rite of Spring, but Apollo and other Balanchine classics haven’t inspired nearly as many reinventions—until now. In France, the country where Apollo premiered in 1928, 31-year-old Brett Fukuda uses a female perspective...
by Sarah McKenna Barry | Dec 14, 2023 | Everything "Nutcracker", The Latest
As we inch closer to the holidays, ballet schools and companies around the world are gearing up for performances of Nutcracker. For many young dancers, this is their entry point into live performance. And, for a number of children in elite ballet schools, the next few...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 10, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
On October 11, 1948, the curtain at the City Center for Music and Drama opened on New York City Ballet for the first time. The then-fledgling company performed three George Balanchine ballets: Concerto Barocco, Orpheus, and Symphony in C. Balanchine and his...
by Martha Anne Toll | Feb 27, 2023 | News, The Latest
Alice Robb’s Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Mariner Books, $29.99) opens a window into ballet’s behind-the-scenes mysteries. Part memoir, part reportage, the book explores George Balanchine’s artistic legacy, as well as the physical and technical...
by Leigh Witchel | Apr 19, 2022 | Company Life
One of the trickiest moves in Balanchine’s Serenade isn’t a dance step, and it wasn’t even part of the ballet until it was well past 40. It’s the moment where the Waltz Girl undoes her hair onstage before the final movement. It can go beautifully or badly, including...
by Martha Anne Toll | Apr 12, 2022 | News, The Latest
Toni Bentley reached ballet’s heights as part of the last group of New York City Ballet dancers to work with George Balanchine. Even before a hip injury forced her into early retirement, she had penned Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal, a beautiful take on daily life...
by Maria Kowroski As Told To Gavin Larsen | Nov 26, 2020 | Dream Role, Profiles
The first time I was called to learn Mozartiana, I didn’t think I would actually get to do it. It’s a coveted ballerina role in the company, and I was still early in my career. But I got to dance it once or twice, and then not again for many years. The...