by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 14, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In the summer of 2018, American Ballet Theatre corps member Jose Sebastian was walking in upper Manhattan with his mother, Pat, after his final performance in the company’s Metropolitan Opera House season. When he found himself reminiscing on summers he spent in the...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 19, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In February 2015, Justin Peck premiered his Bessie Award–winning Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, a ballet set to a symphonic arrangement of Aaron Copland’s iconic Rodeo score. Now in his ninth year as New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer, Peck takes a full dive...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jul 26, 2020 | News, The Latest
Updated 8/13/2020 Picture this: Tiler Peck, Isabella Boylston and Roman Mejia performing in your living room. From July 31 to August 7, tune in as the Vail Dance Festival premieres its new digital edition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time, the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 19, 2020 | News, The Latest, Training
The opening night of a New York City Ballet season is always exciting: Audience members mill about Lincoln Center’s plaza, buzzing with energy, anticipating seeing their favorite ballets and dancers back onstage. The company’s spring season, scheduled to...
by Marina Harss For Dance Magazine | Oct 17, 2019 | Career, Profiles
For decades the name Alicia Alonso has been virtually synonymous with Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the company she co-founded in Havana in 1948. Alonso died on October 17, just shy of what would have been her 99th birthday. In recent years, she had stepped back from...
by Rachel Hellwig | Jul 2, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
You might be on layoff or have a break from your summer intensive today, but ballet is probably still on your brain. That’s okay—kick back, relax and enjoy these American-themed ballet videos. Justin Peck’s “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes”...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 10, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. PNB’s Director’s Choice Program Features Two World Premieres Pacific Northwest Ballet’s second mixed bill of the season, running March 15-24, features...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 28, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet? We’ve rounded up some highlights. NYCB Presents a World Premiere by Justin Peck to a Commissioned Score by Sufjan Stevens January 31 marks an exciting night in New York City Ballet’s winter season with a triple...