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 …
Category: Ballet-General
Balletfocus 2018 Highlights
2018 has been an action packed year in the New York ballet scene. My highlights and lowlights: ABT Young Women Emerge American Ballet Theatre featured many great young women in 2018, particularly Christine Shevchenko, Devon Teuscher, Skylar Brandt, and Cassandra …
Story of the Nutcracker Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Top photo: Sabina Alvarez, Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Nutcracker, December 2015. One of my favorite YouTube channels is Polyphonic, which explores popular music. The videos by a Canadian music journalist are sometimes technical and always interesting. Examples include discussions of Freddie …
City Center Celebrates Balanchine Classics
New York City Center, as part of its 75th anniversary season, is presenting Balanchine: The City Center Years with works from eight leading companies, a sort of all-star production. New York City Ballet’s first performance was in 1948 at City …
ABT DVD Dry Spell Continues
Above photo: World Premier of Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, my suggestion for an ABT DVD. Two years ago, I wrote an article on the distribution of the product of dance. I examined major ballet companies on their efforts to expand audiences through …
Dance Theatre of Harlem at Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Photo: Stephanie Ray Williams and Da’Von Doane, Dialogues, April 2017. Lincoln Center Out of Doors will feature Dance Theatre of Harlem Saturday at 7:30 pm at the Damrosch Park Bandshell next to the Metropolitan Opera House. I’ve always enjoyed DTH …