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There must be snow lightly dusting the shoulders. Mirlitons spin spritely and a striped, delectable flute. There must be magic and awe, in all its guises, and the reassurance that though the King Rat is nearby, crown askew, all is right in the world.
Continue ReadingSince 2013, the American Ballet Theatre has moved into the David H. Koch Theater for a Fall Season as soon as the New York City Ballet has moved out.
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“City Lights,” choreographed by Alastair Marriott for the National Ballet of Japan under artistic director Miyako Yoshida, made its world premiere this month in Tokyo, spinning the iconic 1931 Charles Chaplin movie of the same name to pure balletic gold.
FREE ARTICLEMusubi, the interconnectedness of all things across space and time, is a central concept in Japan’s ancient spiritual worldview, Shintoism.
Continue ReadingTalk about intensity! The American premiere of “Mirlitons” last weekend at the Nimoy as part of CAP UCLA’s season and presented by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, proved a powerful showcase for two multi-talented bodies: dancer, singer and performance artist François Chaignaud; and Aymeric Hainaux, visual artist, beatboxer,...
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There must be snow lightly dusting the shoulders. Mirlitons spin spritely and a striped, delectable flute. There must be magic and awe, in all its guises, and the reassurance that though the King Rat is nearby, crown askew, all is right in the world.
Continue Reading
Since 2013, the American Ballet Theatre has moved into the David H. Koch Theater for a Fall Season as soon as the New York City Ballet has moved out.
Continue Reading
“City Lights,” choreographed by Alastair Marriott for the National Ballet of Japan under artistic director Miyako Yoshida, made its world premiere this month in Tokyo, spinning the iconic 1931 Charles Chaplin movie of the same name to pure balletic gold.
FREE ARTICLE
Musubi, the interconnectedness of all things across space and time, is a central concept in Japan’s ancient spiritual worldview, Shintoism.
Continue Reading
Talk about intensity! The American premiere of “Mirlitons” last weekend at the Nimoy as part of CAP UCLA’s season and presented by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, proved...
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Sacramento Ballet is a 72-year-old company in the capital city of California with 25 dancers, a strong history of dancing the works of George Balanchine, and a growing school and second company. As of six weeks ago, Sacramento Ballet also has a new artistic director: Tiit Helimets.
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With just two weeks penciled in at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theatre, American Ballet Theatre’s fall season is a bright but brief standout in the fall dance calendar.
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Back in Hollywood’s “silent era”—that is, when there was actual sound accompanying the movies, just sound produced, as at a ballet, by musical instruments rather than live speech—the legal entity now known to lawyers and stickler cineastes as “Warner Bros.”
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Of all the places Juliet and Romeo could have fled to after Friar Laurence’s plan succeeded, they chose Paris. At least, this is how Ben Duke and Solène Weinachter imagined their fate in “Juliet and Romeo” (2018), now performed by Emily Terndrup and John Kendall in the title roles.
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London City Ballet, the erstwhile resident company of Sadler’s Wells, has just launched its third season since Christopher Marney resurrected the outfit in 2024, fashioning it into a small-scale touring...
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Well, ring-a-ding-ding! With a show which feels far more cohesive than last year, those Strictly guys are back in the Fair City to pay homage to all things Sin City.
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While the world of ballet is considered a rarefied one, what happens when a dancer who trained at the prestigious Paris Opéra Ballet School abandons the art form—or rather integrates said terpsichorean skills—into a solo sans pointe shoes or ballet slippers, sporting, instead, sneakers? The answer can be found in Dimitri Chamblas’ stunning and thought-provoking work, “Ulysse Marion.”
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There is something uncanny about the timing of the Paris Opera’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s “L’Histoire de Manon” at the Palais Garnier in October 2026, as turmoil unfolds in the streets of Paris.
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The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble returned to the Joyce Theater this October with a generous evening of new and old works under the umbrella title “Khaṅkhaṇā—the sound of dancing feet.”
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I’ve always wondered what it was like to be in the audience of a Balanchine premiere, and on October 8th, when the New York City Ballet revived “Pithoprakta” for the...
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Destruction is a loaded word, so blunt and final, it's hard to imagine a way to move forward from it. But if there was ever a choreographer who knew how to work from destruction it would be Omar Rajeh, and if there was ever a city that knew distraction too well it would be Beirut.
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As the first evening that Gonzalo Garcia has programmed as Miami City Ballet artistic director, “American Rhythms” provides a glimpse into the future of one of America’s most prominent “Balanchine” companies.
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The curtain rises on a fairy-tale and the theatre around me all but disappears. There is the sensation that I am turning the pages of Charles Perrault’s 1697 telling of Sleeping Beauty.
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It’s important for young dance artists to have the space, time, and resources to create. With its mission of giving autonomy to dancers, Pangea Dance Collective, founded in 2022, is working to offer just that.
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Early in its 2026–27 season, the Paris Opera Ballet presents “Paysages intérieurs (Inner Landscapes),” and once again we are faced with the much-debated question of just how many contemporary mixed...
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