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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Anna Halprin, teacher and choreographer who embraced improvisational style, dies by Sarah Halzack

She brought an audaciously improvisational style to a dance tradition she thought had become stale.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:54PM
Monday, May 3, 2021

Jacques d’Amboise, exuberant star of the New York City Ballet, dies at 86 by Sarah Halzack

He inspired George Balanchine to create roles for him and created the National Dance Institute to mold generations of new dancers.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:03PM
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Dance: New York City Ballet at the Kennedy Center by Sarah Halzack

If there’s a common thread in George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?” and Jerome Robbins’s “West Side Story Suite,” it’s the unmistakably hopeful tone that permeates both classic da…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:21PM