The story of an ‘everyday ballerina’: Being a Ballerina by Gavin Larsen
Larsen doesn’t sprinkle her story with sugar or fairy dust. This is ballet as it is; as it really is. I’m not sure I’ve read another book about dance like it.
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Joy Womack: The White Swan
It’s a courageous film, one that presents a very honest, warts and all view of its subject: darkness as well as light, black swan as well as white swan
A Summer Celebration from ABT
Introduced by First Lady Jill Biden, and featuring digital premieres of works by Silas Farley, Helen Pickett, and James Whiteside
Threshold by Peridance Contemporary Dance Company
A classically-rooted work by Igal Perry about relationships, and a sharper but still very human one from Yin Yue
“A spirit unshakeable…unbreakable”: LaGuardia High School Graduation Dance Concert 2021
Not surprisingly, the pandemic never felt far away, but neither also was the energy and optimism of youth
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Season Encore and School Celebration
It has been “a season unlike any other,” says Artistic Director Peter Boal as the company bids a fond farewell to departing dancers
San Francisco Ballet School Virtual Festival
Behind the scenes film, followed by senior students in three works, including two world premieres
The Asian-American choreographic voice: 2021 CrossCurrent Contemporary Dance Virtual Festival
The mix of screendance and film of stage performances certainly evidence the increasing Asian-American choreographic voice
San Francisco Ballet in Swan Lake
OnlineMay 21, 2021 Charlotte Kasner What has been a hugely pleasurable digital season from San Francisco Ballet came to a close with Helgi Tomasson’s 2009 production of Swan Lake, his second for the company. His robust re-telling is well suited to modern sentiments: after all we are all familiar with women suffering coercive control (if … Read more
Neo by Alexei Ratmansky
A new duet for Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside intersperses frenetic, sharp movement with languid ports de bras
