This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on February 29, 2008. Nina Ananiashvili and Vasil Akhmeteli perform in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Bizet Variations” at a dress rehearsal at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Howard Gilman Opera House in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 26, 2008. Performances by the […]
In New Vishneva Ballets, Lovers Beat the Heck Out of Each Other
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on February 23, 2008. Desmond Richardson, left, and Diana Vishneva rehearse for “Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion” in New York on Feb. 13, 2008. Performances will be held at the Manhattan City Center through Feb. 24. Source: Helene Davis PR via Bloomberg News Feb. […]
Inimitable Tudor
New York Theatre Ballet / Florence Gould Hall, NYC / February 8-9, 2008 Members of the New York Theatre Ballet in Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas. Photo by Richard Termine. Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas reveals the vagaries of the human heart through impassioned rushes through the space (as if it were an invisible maze […]
Wheeldon Leaves NYC Ballet With Intimate ‘Rococo’ Quartet
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on February 8, 2008. Ballet dancers, from left, Sterling Hyltin, Giovanni Villalobos, Sara Mearns, and Adrian Danchig-Waring perforn in the New York City Ballet production of “Rococo Variations” in New York. Photographer: Paul Kolnik/NYCB via Bloomberg News Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — “Rococo Variations,” set […]
Bolshoi’s Ratmansky Would Bring Stardom, Heart to City Ballet
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on February 7, 2008. Alexei Ratmansky, artistic director of the Moscow-based Bolshoi Ballet, performs in this undated handout image. Photographer: Vyacheslav Podorozhy/NYCBallet via Bloomberg News Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — Alexei Ratmansky, artistic director of the Moscow-based Bolshoi Ballet, is scheduled to meet this weekend […]
Armitage Dancers in Sex Battle; Bigonzetti’s `Sea’
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on January 24, 2008. Frances Chiaverini and Matthew Branham perform in “Connoisseurs of Chaos” on Jan 21, 2008. Photographer: Julieta Cervantes/Joyce Theatre via Bloomberg News Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — In the hourlong “Connoisseurs of Chaos,” the final installment of choreographer Karole Armitage’s “Dream Trilogy,” […]
Wal-Mart Heiress Funds First-Rate Dancers in Trendy Ballets
This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on January 15, 2008. Cedar Lake dancers Acacia Schachte, Oscar Ramos, back, and Jon Bond perform on Dec. 21, 2007. Photographer: Paul B. Goode/GRW Advertising via Bloomberg News Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Four men and five women are dressed unisex-style, eyes heavily outlined in […]
The Dress: Personal Indulgences No. 6
It happened in Copenhagen. Hans Christian Andersen tells us that magic and imagination flourish on Danish soil, and the tourism industry builds on that proposal at every turn. My own frequent visits to Wonderful Copenhagen and its environs–for work and play–make me suspect there’s some truth in the idea. One Friday, many summers ago, the […]
Jock Soto: Sightings
Dancer Jock Soto. Photo by Paul Kolnik. On Water Flowing Together, Gwendolen Cates’s film biography of Jock Soto: “There’s an honesty about it that is both innocent and powerful. Like Dan Geller and Dana Goldfine’s 2005 Ballet Russes, this film is fueled by simple truths about what it is to be human.” On Soto’s partnering […]
Guardian Angel
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater / Masazumi Chaya 35th Anniversary Celebration / New York City Center, NYC / December 18, 2007 Masazumi Chaya, Associate Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Photo by Andrew Eccles. I recall him vividly as a dancer. He was a powerhouse, but a deeply self-contained one, such as one […]