Monday, December 16, 2024
The Trocks were never interested in making a political statement, their artistic director said. “We are men doing performances of ballet in drag for comedic purposes.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:44AMGuillaume Diop has reached the highest level in the Paris Opera Ballet. He has also become a fashion-world darling and a symbol of a more diverse France.
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Once-in-a-generation ballerinas, topical works that transcended politics and a voguing “Cats” were highlights of the year.
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“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to it nearly 50 years later.
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The Australian Ballet’s premiere of “Oscar,” based on the life of Oscar Wilde, explores the love relationship between two men.
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Throughout her career and on “Downton Abbey,” she perfected the role of the commanding Englishwoman with an arrow-sharp wit.
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Original cast members look back at George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s staging of the 19th-century ballet. “Everyone knows when something is good,” one said.
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Atri Banerjee has channeled his own experiences into a new production of John Osborne’s groundbreaking 1956 work “Look Back in Anger.”
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The plucky London City Ballet collapsed in 1996. Now it’s getting a second life with a new mission: to stage little-known, small-scale works.
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Jean-Paul Montanari’s career as the head of Montpellier Danse has been entwined with the rise of contemporary dance as a force in France.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The festival, the final one for its longtime director, started with a bravura work by Wayne McGregor that was at once otherworldly and deeply human.
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Many remarkable performances fueled the Royal’s mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company’s founding choreographer.
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Benjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée — a daylong event in Paris and its environs — wants “to tell the invisible stories of the city.”
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Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly’s evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris.
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The summer’s Vail Dance Festival features Mearns, the New York City Ballet star, and the choreographer Roberts.
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At 42, Cojocaru has no desire to stop dancing. Instead, she commissioned and is producing a ballet, “La Strada,” in which she will dance.
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At La Scala, Ratmansky’s original choreography makes details and nuances of the story pop, as if a carapace of formulaic interpretation has been cracked open.
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The stage designer and artist Es Devlin brings decades of work to life in an experiential monograph and exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.
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The company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back?
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Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school.
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The fall dance calendar began with English National Ballet under new leadership. Then came Royal Ballet’s “Don Quixote” and “Black Sabbath: The Ballet.”
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A huge new performance space in Manchester, England, opened with a show that trumpets the building’s possibilities, but doesn’t push any boundaries.
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Christian Spuck, a choreographer of narrative ballets, has taken the helm at the Staatsballett Berlin after years of strife for the troupe. Can he turn it around?
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The Empire State Building honors New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary by lighting up in blue, favored by George Balanchine as a backdrop.
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It’s been cathartic to “create art from places of torment,” the singer-actor said ahead of the opening of “Sunset Boulevard” in London.
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The Lyon Dance Biennial, now under new leadership, is doubling down on its efforts to attract in a wide public.
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
Original cast members talk about their experiences making the three-part plotless ballet, which opens New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary season.
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Charmatz’s first new work for the company founded by Pina Bausch was a messy, meandering grab-bag of ideas and inspirations.
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As Waltz’s Berlin troupe commemorates its anniversary, its founder looks back on the lessons of those years, and forward to what comes next.
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