Category: dance

“No one was injured when a woman accidentally drove a sport utility vehicle into the front of Kansas Ballet Academy on Tuesday morning.”

In 1992, American Ballet Theater was reeling from a $6 million deficit and an ugly breakup with artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov. “McKenzie – a plain-speaking former working-class Irish Catholic altar boy turned ABT principal dancer – was brought in to try to save the company.”

Tiler Peck, for instance, bangs hers against a cinder-block wall. (It keeps them quiet.)

For Chicago dance aficionados it was among the best of times.

“The bodice of the principal dancer is adorned with a small oval cameo-style portrait of Balanchine. The women in the corps de ballet wear cameos of Lincoln Kirstein.”

A top five list and a worst five list.

The Debbie Allen Dance Academy’s show, “The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” that was mounted earlier this month in Los Angeles, beat out nearly 60 other productions of “The Nutcracker.” It’s Allen’s second time winning the award.

A former Alvin Ailey superstar and a current artificial-hip owner, Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, returns to the stage to perform “Revelations,” the company’s best-known work.

“The Orlando Ballet has chosen its third executive director in three years. Ron Legler, president of Florida Theatrical Association and owner of downtown nightclub The Abbey, will be the ballet’s interim leader.”

Students of the dance-drama from the Indian state of Kerala face a regimen that even ballet dancers might find daunting.