The New York City Ballet principal walks us through his daily exercise and strength training regimen (and throws in a quick tribute to colleague and fiancée Tiler Peck).
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Is This The Choreographers’ App We Never Dared Hope For?
Meet Jeff Whiting, choreographer/director and creator of Stage Write, “an app which makes documenting stage blocking and choreography a fast, fluid, clinical and permanent affair.”
Toe Care Secrets Of The Royal Ballet
You might be appalled – or impressed – at the materials these dancers repurpose for use in their ballet slippers.
Meet The Man Who’s Remaking Ballet
Alexei Ratmansky’s “range is wide, from abstract creations to the restaging of classics. … He displays a remarkable ability to tell stories through dance.”
Joy Womack Tells More About The Bolshoi Ballet (And Why She Quit)
Back in Texas for a family visit, the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi’s ballet school fills in some details on the explosive allegations she made (e.g., that she was asked to pay a $10,000 bribe to get cast) and the responses she has received in Moscow since she went public.
Natalia Osipova On The Bolshoi’s Troubles
“My first five years [there] were amazing. … Then, slowly, difficulties started and I decided to leave. I didn’t want scandals: our profession is dancing, not politics. But the Bolshoi is still my home: I am from Moscow. For us, the Bolshoi was something holy. I just hope the theatre will find a way out of this.”
That Letter From Vaganova Ballet Academy To Putin – Was It A Fake?
Last month, after the Russian Ministry of Culture installed the fired Bolshoi star Nikolai Tsiskaridze as director of the historic St. Petersburg school, a sizeable group of faculty wrote an open appeal to President Vladimir Putin to overrule Tsiskaridze’s appointment. Now the Ministry has claimed that the letter is a forgery.
Glimpses Into Nureyev’s World At A French Museum
“Many of Rudolf Nureyev’s belongings are now on display at a costume museum in Moulins, France, offering a sense of that ballet dancer’s exuberant personality and passion for all that was rare and beautiful.”
Watch The Young Margot Fonteyn Dance
“YouTube does deliver – here with some rare shots of Margot Fonteyn. Could it be the earliest dance footage the BBC ever recorded?”
More Drama In Russian Ballet World, This Time In St. Petersburg
Altynai Asylmuratova, the former star ballerina and revered artistic director of the Vaganova Ballet Academy (one of the world’s most prestigious), has resigned – and she’s decamping to another company that has become something of a refuge for Russian dancers.