I love watching great dancers perform pirouettes, with endless turns done effortlessly. However, I know how difficult pirouettes are as I struggled with them in may dancing days many years ago; no matter how much I watched Mikhail Baryshnikov video …
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ABT Met Season Casting Announced!…sort of
The Met Opera House website released casting for ABT’s Spring Season…but took the information down yesterday. This might have been a glitch as ABT usually releases casting in a press release posted in its website. Anyway, here are highlights: 1. David …
Mixed Rep-Oct. 19
Gomes to Receive Dance Magazine Award ABT’s Marcelo Gomes will be one of five dance luminaries to receive the 2015 Dance Magazine Award along with lamenco star Soledad Barrio, National Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain, dance historian, and archivist David …
Mixed Rep, Oct. 14
Paloma’s Final Performance The Buenos Aires Herald reports on Paloma Herrera’s final performance Sunday: Paloma’s performance: she was radiant, looked young, unbelievably supple, her technique honed to perfection. Indeed she proved that she is retiring in the fullness of her art. …
Sascha Radetsky at NYU
Congratulations to Sascha Radetsky, who received a fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts (CBA) at NYU. The center is the first international institute devoted to the creation and study of ballet. At CBA, Sascha will work on a novel …
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 …