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Author: KentGBecker
Dance Theatre of Harlem 50th Anniversary Celebration
Dance Theatre of Harlem, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, held its New York season at City Center last week. Arthur Mitchell, the first African-American dancer at New York City Ballet, established DTH 50 years ago after the assassination of …
Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance with David Hallberg
Natalia Osipova is known for her great athletic prowess with high leaps and endless turns in her distinguished career with energetic portrayals of Kitri in Don Quixote and Giselle. This past week at City Center, Natalia demonstrated a different talent, …
Babe Ruth, James Dean, Misty Copeland?
There were two loud groans originating from Balletfocus.com world headquarters Tuesday night: New Jeep Commercial A new Jeep vehicle television commercial has a theme of “Legends aren’t born — they’re made” as video shows Jeep vehicles rampaging through deserts, fire, …
What is Gender-Fluid Dancing?
Above photo from chittagongit.com The New York Times has a new term to describe a dancer’s style: gender-fluid. As a former dancer, I would take the description as an insult, but the Times uses it approvingly these days. An example …
New Heads of NYCB Named;
Where are the Times’ Reviews?
New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet announced the appointment of Jonathan Stafford as Artistic Director and Wendy Whelan as its Associate Artistic Director of NYCB. Jonathan was the company’s interim director after Peter Martins resigned in January …
NYCB Sleeping Beauty Final Performance
Indiana Woodward and Anthony Huxley finished New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty run Sunday with a solid performance but, like the other NYCB performances I’ve seen over the past two weeks, with a few rough spots. Indiana portrayed Aurora with …