by Catja Christensen | Dec 8, 2022 | Profiles
The 21st century has ushered in a wave of choreographic reimaginings of 18th- and 19th-century classical ballet stories. These new works reinterpret well-known narratives by infusing contemporary themes and choreographic styles while updating stories for today’s...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 20, 2020 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Opens With Two All-Balanchine Programs After a quick post-Nutcracker break, New York City Ballet is back. The company’s winter...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 14, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. ABT’s West Cost Premiere of “Harlequinade” American Ballet Theatre heads to California this week for the West Coast premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 8, 2018 | News, Profiles
Imagine The Oscars, but for dance. Sound too good to be true? The New York Dance & Performance Awards, commonly known as The Bessies, are about as close as the dance world gets to award show glamour. October 8 marked the 2018 Bessies, the one night of the year...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Oct 11, 2017 | Profiles, TBT
Black Swan wasn’t the film industry’s first ballet-themed psychological drama. In The Red Shoes (1948), theater and life conflate, with tragic results for the dancer caught in the middle. Unlike Black Swan, however, The Red Shoes starred a real life...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 11, 2017 | News, Viral Videos
This fall, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures presents the U.S. premiere of a fresh take on an old classic. The Red Shoes, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and an Academy Award–winning film, tells the story of Victoria Page, a dancer obsessed...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
You have to wonder how much experience Petipa actually had with swans. They’re elegant and graceful, yes–but they’re also mean, hissy, scary even. The male swans of Matthew Bourne’s wildly popular Swan Lake hit much closer to the mark, in that...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Matthew Bourne has made a choreographic career out of reimagining classic ballets and giving them dark, contemporary twists. His Sleeping Beauty, described as a “gothic romance” complete with vampires and fairies, is no exception. You can see for yourself...