The ballet company MorDance began its second season at the Sheen Center, and rose above a space that was less than ideal. ...
Satellite Collective’s program at BAM Fisher on Friday featured two multimedia dance works, a stop-motion film, musical performances and a dramatic poetry reading. ...
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet’s “The Sleeping Beauty,” at the Schimmel Center, and Ballet Academy East’s varied program at John Jay College offered a study in contrasts. ...
St Lukes and Sefton physie clubs joined forces for a day of physie fun and learning at their 2014 workshop. The day was a huge success with over 70 girls attending and being inspired by a visit from Grand Champion girl Phoebe Collins. ...
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev's new project is further proof that the ballet world is increasingly relying on contemporary choreographers It started off as a novelty and now it's becoming a trend, as Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev have joined the list of top-flight ballet dancers who are opting to expand their performing (and earning) potential by presenting their own independent projects. In...
Linbury Studio, London Whitley's creativity is seen best in his piece for dancers of the Royal Ballet, where the focus remains taut Alexander Whitley is the second choreographer to appear at the Linbury this season with a double bill created partly for his own company and partly for dancers from the Royal Ballet. And as with his predecessor Mayuri Boonham , it's the work Whitley has made for the Royal...
Los Angeles based Celebrity Choreographer MICHAEL SCHWANDT recently completed his 10th Australian National Workshop tour and can’t speak highly enough of the talent we are breeding here in the land ‘downunder’. Michael is a firm supporter of Australian dancers and… ...
Margaret Willis has been busy: in St. Petersburg at the Dance Open Festival Gala and 2 days later in Moscow at the Soul of Dance Ballet Gala. And important awards were given at both......
In Emmanuelle Huynh’s “A Vida Enorme/épisode 1,” disembodied voices, male and female, converse in Portuguese and French; the couple appears later, shirtless, in a restive dance. ...
City Ballet’s season is studded with debuts and revelations from younger dancers. ...
The idea behind the National Symphony Orchestra’s “NEW MOVES: symphony dance” festival was ingenious and simple: to promote American contemporary music and to attract new audiences ......
Royal Opera House, London Joy is hard to sustain when fate is fickle and Jack the Ripper is waiting in the wings in the Royal Ballet's triple bill Serenade was first performed in 1934 at White Plains , New York by students of the fledgling School of American Ballet . It was George Balanchine's first work with American dancers, and as well as being one of the best loved of his ballets, is a work of...
But this is a really enterprising and unusual use of the Linbury space that leaves you with an intense curiosity to see what Whitley does next....
Pierre Rigal’s “Micro” is being performed at the Joyce Theater as part of the French-American Danse festival. ...
Works by SuperGroup and Laurie Berg dealing with generational change close the Joyce Unleashed series in Brooklyn. ...
Alban Lendorf, a star of the Royal Danish Ballet, danced the part of Basilio on Wednesday in the American Ballet Theater production of “Don Quixote.” ...
When you see a flash of red at physie comps it means you’ve spotted a teacher. She’s always there in the background making the competitions happen, organising heats, walking a hundred miles, putting on lippy, pinning on numbers, playing the music, putting down markers, taking them up, giving hugs, giving encouragement, holding her breath, pinning […]...
Featuring The Royal Ballet and Alexander Whitley Dance Company. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou......
The latest round of Danspace Project’s Platform series, which explores dance through the lens of a particular idea or theme, is dedicated to the work of the choreographer DD Dorvillier. ...
Abdel R. Salaam of the Forces of Nature company will run the DanceAfrica festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when Chuck Davis steps down in 2016. ...