by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 21, 2024 | Higher Ed, Summer Study, Training
Last summer, Kirsten Smerud, then 20, had just finished a traineeship at BalletMet and was preparing to join Louisville Ballet’s Studio Company. She wanted to keep up with her training, but she found that she’d aged out of most summer intensives and would be older...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Sep 6, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Fifty years ago, Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Ballade was performed once, in Portugal, by The Royal Ballet’s New Group, a touring offshoot of the London-based company. It hasn’t been seen since, until now. Ballade is being staged for the first time since 1972 for the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 18, 2019 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News, Profiles
Yesterday, Kaatsbaan, the Tivoli, NY-based cultural park for dance, announced that Stella Abrera will join the organization as its new artistic director, effective January 1, 2020. This news come just weeks after we learned that Abrera will be taking her final bow...