by Kyra Laubacher | May 19, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Fairies, jumbled romance, trickery, and a dashing donkey: Bay Area–based Diablo Ballet is closing out its 2022–23 season with a brand-new A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Premiering May 26 and 27 as part of a triple bill at Walnut Creek, California’s Lesher Center for the...
by Courtney Escoyne | Dec 28, 2018 | Profiles
During Alexander Ekman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, a singer croons: “By morning the dancers/Will start to wonder/Had it all been a dream?/Had it all been a blunder?” While The Joffrey Ballet’s performances of Ekman’s 2015 full-length...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 23, 2018 | News, Viral Videos
This spring, The Joffrey Ballet will present the North American premiere of Alexander Ekman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Swedish choreographer is best known for his absurdist and cutting-edge productions. “This is not Shakespeare’s...
by Julia Rosica | Sep 13, 2017 | Profiles, TBT
This video from Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Dream will transport you to a warm, enchanted summer evening. In this clip from an American Ballet Theater performance from 2004, Alessandra Ferri and Ethan Stiefel play Titania and Oberon, rulers of the woodland fairy...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Mar 28, 2016 | Company Life
When we first reported on Miami City Ballet’s redesign of George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we were, to be totally honest, mostly interested in seeing the costume for the character Bottom. Why? In the MCB production, which places Oberon...