by Abi Stafford | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
New York City Ballet principal Abi Stafford recently performed in Cuba as part of the Havana International Dance Festival. Read her follow-up post here. DAY 1 Seven of my NYCB colleagues and I are heading to Havana, Cuba for the Festival, joining other prestigious...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
With its mix of gangsters, vaudeville and ballet, On Your Toes was the first major Broadway musical to incorporate classical dance—courtesy of George Balanchine. One of the 1936 show’s numbers is the much-beloved Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, often performed by...
by Madeline Schrock | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Fishnets, gangsters, vaudeville and. . . Balanchine? One of these things may not seem like the others, but dancers know it’s a killer combination. The 1936 Broadway musical Rodgers & Hart’s On Your Toes combines all this, plus song-and-dance tap numbers, and...