Friday, June 7, 2019
Jez Butterworth’s hit play is so robust and chock full of incident that I could not assimilate all of it in my one visit. I reviewed it in October, 2018, when several of its principal�…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:23PMThursday, June 6, 2019
Terrence McNally is an acknowledged master whose home must house dozens of awards including several for a lifetime of achievement, four Tonys, an Emmy, and many more. In 1996 he was induct…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:03PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
As dancers chassé toward their senior year of school, they begin to decide where dance will take them. Where will they take that next step, or leap, to make their dance dreams a reality? Th…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 12:56AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Formal dance training includes much about patterns in the body: the sequential arcs of port de bras, common step sequences such as a pas de bourrée, the actions in the body that lead to a p…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:57AMA career in classical ballet can feel incredibly all-encompassing — from rehearsing to class to cross-training and maintenance, the work is constant. Yet Kathleen Breen Combes, to her cred…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:11AMMonday, June 3, 2019
We’re coming up on the end of the school year, and countless graduating dancers are coming into the industry. Whether they’re coming from conservatories, university BFA programs or studi…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:07AMBallerina, model and Só Dança ambassador Brittany Cavaco lives every dancer’s dream and confronts every dancer’s nightmare in the new dance film, Until Midnight, directed by Christophe…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:42AMSunday, June 2, 2019
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is set to bring the Genée International Ballet Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, back to Toronto for the first time si…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:08PMA tendu is a tendu, a jeté is a jeté, and a pirouette is a pirouette. When does movement go beyond that to become art? When does a dancer transcend the steps to truly be an artist? Darrell…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:35PMJust recently, prestigious dancewear brand Só Dança revealed its much anticipated new pointe shoe, the Elektra, a marriage of hundreds of years of tradition and groundbreaking, revamped te…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:29PM“I want more energy, lower injury risk and a healthy weight.” As a registered dietitian who has been working with elite level dancers for over 10 years, these are the most common concern…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:58PMEurotard Dancewear is proud to have a Brand Ambassador program where dancers who are training, pre-professional and professional represent its brand and all of its possibilities. Eurotard Br…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:44PMSaturday, June 1, 2019
Laurel Lawson, an Atlanta-based activist, disability arts leader, dancer and technologist recently received an inaugural Dance/USA Artist Fellowship. The select group includes 31 artists, an…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:32PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Hadestown is the musical I had unknowingly been waiting for all season. While the title might not ring a bell like those of more commercial shows such as Tootsie, The Cher Show and The Prom…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:35AMFriday, May 24, 2019
New York Live Arts, New York, NY. May 15, 2019. To make art and present it to an audience is taking a risk. It calls for courage. That’s often all the more the case when the work focuses…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:15PMThere’s a tension in the concert dance world at large — between the classic and the contemporary, the traditional and the modern. At the same time, there can be confluence and harmony th…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:37PMIs there actually such a thing as financial freedom, or is that a myth like the Tooth Fairy? Is financial freedom, or even financial stability, a lofty goal that only very few can attain? As…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 02:25AMThursday, May 23, 2019
Boch Center Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. April 5, 2019. Dance can be quite intellectual, and quite intellectually fascinating — through elements of structure, timing, concept, e…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:40PMThe Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 30, 2019. “I am a classicist,” wrote Benita Bike in her program letter. I did indeed see classicism in her work, but also evident were …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:22PMMonday, May 20, 2019
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. May 4, 2019. Telling an emotional, difficult story can demand a lot — emotional energy, clarity to help the listener understand, and courage in …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 07:42PMSunday, May 19, 2019
In life, how often do we slow down and think about why we do what we do? How much does the answer to that question influence how we actually go forward in the world? Michael Ian Cedar, presi…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:47PMFriday, May 10, 2019
We have witnessed it frequently as of late, Broadway audience members vocally complaining about actors, with their ire focused “missing” shows (aka, having prior engagements or attending…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 10:17AMThursday, May 9, 2019
★★★ Jerome Robbins’ 'Bathing Beauty Ballet' sparks the uneven Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn musical at Encores!
The post High Button Shoes: Silvers Turned to Tarnish in Keystone Kops Musical…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:30PMThe Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is one of the largest and most influential dance education and training organizations in the world. Established in the UK in 1920, the RAD encourages its tea…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:55AMFor artists across the United States, the struggle to find and keep funding, pay collaborators and bring passion projects to life can feel like an uphill battle. In a dog-eat-dog world, some…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:31AMSome stories — and thus, some dances — are simply timeless. At the same time, there may very well be creative choices within works from the past — even if they feel timeless — that d…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:27AMSummer is just around the corner, and you may already have plans for an exciting summer program, workshop or convention. And you’ll surely want to make a lasting first impression and treat…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:24AMBoston Ballet Principal John Lam has danced leading roles in some of the most sought-after ballets – Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the princi…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 01:22AMSaturday, May 4, 2019
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. April 7, 2019. Last Sunday morning, I packed up the whole family and headed to Washington, D.C. to pa…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:43PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Spring is in full swing, and the flowers in bloom and warmer weather has us jumping for joy! In fact, jumping is just that – joy in movement. There’s nothing more exciting than seeing a…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 05:45PMFriday, April 26, 2019
It was yet another Nutcracker season at New York City Ballet (NYCB), and the company was getting more and more letters questioning the offensive, stereotypical Chinese variation. NYCB solois…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 04:37AM 
