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Beginning next September, Atlanta Ballet's 90th-anniversary season promises impressive variety, with nods to the company's rich history and a turn toward diversity and inclusion. The company…
Some experiences in the theater resonate so deeply that it's best to leave writing about them to the poets. Such was the experience Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor wrought last Saturday during t…
In Danielle Agami's Next Door, Christian Clark and Rachel Van Buskirk, performers with Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, appeared dressed in black on a stark stage setting. They moved across a…
It’s been a year since The Lucky Penny opened the Work Room. The dance studio was born of choreographer Blake Beckham's determination to fill a practical need she had for nearly 15 yea…
In his new work, Moat, choreographer George Staib delves into memories from a conflicted time in his childhood — when his Armenian-American family relocated from Iran to the United Sta…
The influence of the great 20th-century dance masters pops up in surprising places. Take, for example, a Coca-Cola commercial where a man dances in silhouette against a red-lit vending machi…
It's been nearly five years since Robert Battle succeeded Judith Jamison as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As with many changes
(Editor's note: As East Point's Ballethnic Dance Company celebrates its 25th year and prepares for its annual production of the Urban Nutcracker November 19-22, Cynthia
The instant an airborne dancer triumphs over gravity, or arcs her body into a fall, can reveal a lifetime of work and artistry. It is
From the sacred ring shout to tap, reinvented through funk and hip-hop; from the fiery Cuban Rumba to concert modern dance; from the South African
Last weekend, Atlanta Ballet capped its 2014-15 season with MAYhem, a program that reflected the company's versatility as part of a varied vision: Angel's Share,
It will be five years in August since Atlanta Ballet unveiled plans to create a more contemporary artistic profile. The following spring, the company announced
"God bless all con men and hustlers and pitch-men who hawk their hearts on the street…." In Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, the gypsy girl Esmeralda
In classical ballet, the term renversé has been defined as "the bending of the body in a turn, in which the normal balance is upset,
Sometimes a memory seems to rise up out of nowhere. It seizes the consciousness and jerks the psyche around, wrapping it in images, sensations and
Illusion and dream are at the essence of ballet, and Atlanta Ballet's Nutcracker holds plenty. In John McFall's version, which opened last Thursday at the Fox