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 dancers b…
It 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 commenters …
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 …
In 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 stars…
"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 "Assisted…
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 had a…
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 …
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 apar…
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…
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…
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 to …
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 to …
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, slightl…
[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 Ci…
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's C…
"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 productio…
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 li…
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 thi…
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 "Br…
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 Lake.…
"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 talking abo…
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…
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…
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 Gergiev,…
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's spec…