Review by Jocelyn Delifer. MOVETHECOMPANY, led by Joshua Beamish, premiered his full-length work The Masque of the Red Death, inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story at the Joyce Theater last Thursday and Friday. Beamish carries the audience into a …
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Ellison Ballet Spring Performance
Above photo: Madison Yeung, Michael Paradiso, Mitchell Tobin. The Ellison Ballet Spring Showcase featured many great young dancers last weekend and I posted photos on my photography website notmydayjobphotography.com. Ellison Ballet is a training school in New York run by Edward Ellison, …
David Hallberg on CBS This Morning
CBS This Morning ran a piece on David Hallberg, documenting his struggle with injuries and his return to the stage. Obviously, I liked 6:16, which showed a photo I took of David in his emotional ABT return performance on May …
Book Alert: Celestial Bodies by Laura Jacobs
Ballet lovers (and potential ballet fans) will want to pick up Laura Jacobs’ engaging book to be released May 8, Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet, a fascinating collection of essays on dance. Jacobs is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair …
Marcelo Gomes Leaving ABT Amid Allegation
Shocking and sad news as ABT Principal Dancer Marcelo Gomes is leaving the company after a sexual misconduct allegation. According to The New York Times, ABT was made aware of a “highly concerning allegation of sexual misconduct” by Marcelo that …
Big Apple Circus is Back!
Happy to report that the Big Apple Circus is back at Lincoln Center and better than ever. The 2017 rendition is a thrill a minute, two-hour delight filled with top-notch high-flying trapeze artists, tight rope walkers, jugglers, and acrobats. Big …