Ballet San Jose Stays Alive SF Gate reports that Ballet San Jose, headed by former ABT Principal Dancer José Manuel Carreño, raised $640,000 in the last 10 days to stave off financial collapse. The company needed to raise $500,000 to …
Category: Other Ballet Companies
Olivia Cowley Debuts New
Ballet and Fashion Website
Olivia Cowley, Soloist at The Royal Ballet, has a new website. balletstyle.co.uk explores two of her passions, ballet and fashion. The site gives readers a behind the scenes look into the ballet world and a sense of her fashion tastes after …
Twyla Tharp Anniversary Tour
Twyla Tharp will take 12 dancers on the road to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her choreographic debut according to The New York Times. The tour will open in Dallas on September 18 and will include performances in 15 cities total …
Royal Ballet at Lincoln Center
Baryshnikov Turns 67
The Royal Ballet at Lincoln Center Even though snow is on the ground and it’s freezing in New York, it’s not too soon to think about summer entertainment. Tickets are on sale for The Royal Ballet at Koch Theater, Lincoln Center …
Mariinsky Chopin Review
Sat Jan 24
After two classic full-length ballets (Swan Lake and Cinderella), Mariinsky Ballet presented a great mixed rep bill, Chopin: Dances for Piano Saturday evening. The music consisted of a single pianist for three diverse works: Michel Fokine’s 1908 Chopiniana; Benjamin Millepied’s Without (2011); and …
Mariinsky Chopin Photos
Sat Jan 24
I posted curtain call photos from Mariinsky Ballet’s Chopin: Dances for Piano program Saturday on my photography website, notmydayjobphotography.com. Click any of the photos to go to the site. I thought it was a wonderful evening with interesting works. Look …