Friday, May 30, 2014
This summer I will be weeping through “The Lion King,” for the third or fourth time. It’s not just the animal theme (but that helps). Or even the feline one. (I walked out of “Cats.�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
“Giselle” is a ballet about secrets and lies. The two lovers at its core know nothing about each other. Count Albrecht is full of deceptions, including the fact that he’s engaged to so…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:14PMMonday, May 19, 2014
Is it bad to be reminded of a great entertainer after his death? Well, no. Is it creepy to project a known perfectionist as a hologram, in a performance before millions, enshrined in Interne…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:41AMSunday, May 18, 2014
It takes heart, imagination and ambition to frame a painful past in hip-hop and sequins. Kyle Abraham pulls it off, in more ways than one, in his newest work, “Live! The Realest MC,” an …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:33AMSaturday, May 17, 2014
There were so many ways the musicians could have upstaged the dancers at Friday’s performance of Jessica Lang Dance and the National Symphony Orchestra. The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19PMFriday, May 16, 2014
NEW YORK — Sergei Filin, artistic director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, stands with his back to the mirror, chewing on his pinky finger. He leans forward to get a better look at the dance…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:34PMIt wasn’t that bad until she tied on the pointe shoes, and then the tomatoes began to fly: “This. is horrifying. Ballet dancers everywhere are cringing!!!!” That’s one of many comme…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:08AMFriday, May 2, 2014
In the Enlightenment, the human body was the new frontier. Lord Byron would become a fitness fanatic obsessed with fat. Surgeons cut into cadavers to discover what had lain concealed before …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:17PMIn some ways, Larry Keigwin is living out the themes of “If/Then,” the Broadway show that he choreographed, which had a tryout here last fall and recently opened in New York. The show s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:46PMSaturday, April 26, 2014
“A charming eccentricity becomes obnoxious,” proclaimed Yvonne Rainer as her dancers jogged around the stage in high-water pants during Rainer’s fitfully charming, deeply eccentric “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:23PMFriday, April 25, 2014
Just before the curtains opened in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater on the Washington Ballet’s “Tour-de-Force: Balanchine!” program Thursday night, Artistic Director Septime Webre…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:56PMFriday, April 18, 2014
In the 1960s, simple was radical. Performers who did nothing more than walk around onstage, or run around, were called revolutionary. Choreographer Yvonne Rainer called it dance. With the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:50AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Power is usually hidden in ballet. This video by PostTV uncovers it. What can pass in just a few musical beats during a performance — the corkscrew jumps, the ballerina who seems to fly ap…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Like any good dancer, Amy Purdy has a great pair of legs. But as with any good dancer, there is far more to her talent than what she does with them. Still, the legs grab your attention. Purd…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:46AMThursday, April 3, 2014
An outbreak of eccentricity swept through the New York City Ballet at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Wednesday, and oh, what grand delirium ensued. It began as touches of comedy in Christ…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:27PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
When George Balanchine unveiled his ballet “Jewels,” he suggested that his inspiration lay in the glass cases at Van Cleef & Arpels. What a good story for the magpies among us drawn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:43PMWhen George Balanchine unveiled his ballet “Jewels,” he suggested that his inspiration lay in the glass cases at Van Cleef & Arpels. What a good story for the magpies among us drawn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:12PMFriday, March 28, 2014
NEW YORK — If Cary Grant had ever made a screwball comedy about ballet, it might look like what was happening on a recent afternoon at the New York City Ballet, where a lighthearted, sligh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50AM[Note: publish Friday March 28] Justin Peck has lots of ideas. At 26, the soloist with New York City Ballet has a skyrocketing career as a choreographer. He’s made half a dozen works for …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:10AMMonday, March 24, 2014
If “Dancing With the Stars” ever needs a ringer to suit up in a sparkle tux, may it turn to Kevin Canevari. Canevari is the Mercer University senior basketball player who turned his team…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:38PMSunday, March 16, 2014
“The Tempest Replica,” a hybridized mime-dance-theater interpretation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” begins with an exquisite piece of storytelling. From the first moments of this…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:44PMThursday, March 13, 2014
Paul Taylor, founder of the world-famous Paul Taylor Dance Company, has always said he’s a lucky guy. When he got his start in New York in the 1950s, the modern art movement was young and …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:22PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
You’d have to ask Charles Darwin why ambition and risk-taking are such standard hooks for our interest, whether in a mate, a business leader or an artist. We may need to evolve past this t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMFriday, March 7, 2014
With its current series, the Washington Ballet pays tribute to the rock-romanticism the Beatles unleashed in their first American appearances 50 years ago. Although the program is titled “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:06PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Eyebrows, prepare for liftoff. The Washington Ballet has announced its 2014-2015 season, and among its offerings of short, punchy contemporary works is a great big anomaly called “Swan Lak…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:49PMSunday, February 23, 2014
“These ladies look like they could win all the gold in the Olympics,” said a man in the audience after Saturday’s performance at the American Dance Institute in Rockville. He was talki…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:15PMSaturday, February 8, 2014
How powerful art is when it shows us our spiritual self, the part that gazes beyond this tottering world for meaning. Dance, with its embodied emotion, is optimal for this. The best dance pi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:59PMFriday, January 31, 2014
The Bolshoi Ballet has made headlines over the past year for all the wrong reasons. A vicious attack on its artistic director, bribery allegations, the recent sentencing of one of its dancer…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:37PMWednesday, January 29, 2014
It’s as though both of Russia’s major ballet companies have been caught in the unyielding grip of a polar vortex. Bitter fissures have cracked through their elegant facades: Valery Gerg…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:14PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
The story is one of the best-known fairy tales, and it unfolds along the lines of one of the world’s most famous ballets. But things don’t happen as one might expect in Matthew Bourne’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:22PMThursday, November 7, 2013
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet has become enormously adept at successive approximations. What other ballet company routinely approaches this one’s ability to almost get it, to come quite close…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:53PM 
