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 Guiheen | Sep 13, 2017 | Profiles, TBT
Summertime may be slipping away, but this clip 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...
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...