Thanks for tuning in this past year and hope you enjoyed the ballet coverage as much as I had fun reporting and reviewing performances. Thanks also to those that provided their thoughts in interviews: ABT’s Gillian Murphy on pirouettes; NYCB’s Emily …
Category: Ballet-General
Dance Photography
Above photo: Da’ Von Doane, Dance Theatre of Harlem-Over the past year, I’ve been fortunate to photograph seven ballet events in New York. I’ve captured dancers during curtain calls for the past 10 years, but never during live performances; this …
The Walk-A Must See Movie
With all the ballets I attend, I don’t see many movies. Fortunately, I made an exception last weekend, seeing The Walk with my family. The movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Flight) stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, …
Balletfocus Video Dictionary
Check out my ballet video dictionary on YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/KentGBecker. The channel features 39 common ballet steps from world’s greatest dancers in live performances: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gillian Murphy, Leonid Sarafanov, Svetlana Zakharova, José Manual Carreño, Alina Cojocaru, Roberto Bolle, and many more. …
Flesh and Bone Premiers Nov. 8
Flesh and Bone, a limited series from Starz that is set in the cutthroat world of ballet, will premier November 8. The drama’s choreographer is former ABT Principal Dancer Ethan Stiefel with cast members Irina Dvorovenko and Sascha Radetsky, former …
National Dance Institute on PBS
PBS News Hour had an interesting segment earlier in the week on Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institure. d’Amboise founded NDI in 1976, which works with New York City school children through weekly classes, short-term residencies, and public performances. NDI currently partners …