Category: dance

“If other people like our dancing then that’s nice, but the real impetus to keep dancing has to be internal and be motivated from within.”

“Brooklyn’s loss, though, will be California’s gain: The production will go west in 2015 to begin an annual run at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif., where snowflakes — of both the onstage and offstage variety — are considerably rarer.”

Lloyd Mayor: “The work was really talking about shame and empathy and vulnerability, and they are not to be romanticized.”

“‘I prefer to think I’m going to live forever,’ said Mr. Taylor, 83 years old. ‘At some point, they’re going to not let me make dances anymore, so I have to think ahead.'”

“It’s not a rereading of Swan Lake, it’s another thing, which is why I’ve called it Lac,” says choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot of his rereading of Swan Lake more primal take on the Tchaikovsky score, which he created for his company, the reborn Ballets de Monte Carlo.

She’ll have to miss seeing her choreography in Friday night’s opening of the new musical The Fortress of Solitude – because she’ll be dancing with her own company in their Boston debut. (She doesn’t mind so much.)

The Mikhailovsky Ballet, the well-funded St. Petersburg company that famously lured Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev away from the Bolshoi, was going to appear in New York in 2012 – until ABT, which also engaged the couple, invoked a non-compete clause. But they’re coming stateside at last.

Ivan Vasiliev is sort of inspired by his kingship; Roberto Bolle is more amused.

English National Ballet artistic director Tamara Rojo and her three choreographers – Liam Scarlett, Russell Maliphant and Akram Khan – talk about creating their upcoming mixed bill, titled Lest We Forget.