Category: dance

The Old Woman, part of the Manchester International Festival, is the “most difficult and the most challenging” role of his career, the 65-year-old says.

“Greg Cameron arrived this week as executive director of the Joffrey Ballet armed with a wealth of contacts … and an irrepressible optimism. … Cameron, who resigned as chief operating officer of the parent company of television station WTTW and WFMT-FM to take his new job, isn’t fazed by the tough times still facing the arts.”

“Marguerite Donlon … has become something of a local celebrity since founding the Donlon Dance Company in 2001. After a dozen high-flying years, however, … the Saarland state theatre terminated her contract by mutual agreement– two years early. The news came as a bombshell in Saarbrücken and triggered an extraordinary outpouring of love for the diminutive 47-year-old.”

In 2011, “Hallberg became the first American principal dancer of the Bolshoi, the world’s largest ballet, with more than 200 dancers, an institution that’s remained at the center of Russian culture since its founding in 1776.”

“His dancing style, today known as the Madiba dance, is still popular on the streets of Johannesburg.” [AUDIO]

“Suddenly, the conductor Alan Gilbert, wearing a long, satiny coat, leapt from the podium and turned to the audience, taking the role of the magician who introduces the three puppets he controls.”

“The demonstrators, who had gathered on a square near the Bolshoi, held banners that attacked the theater’s management, claimed that the theater had lost its reputation and that Russian ballet was dead.”

Rachel Parker, formerly of Birmingham Royal Ballet: “My problems started after a tour to Taiwan. I got very ill and lost a lot of weight so when I came back to work I was expecting concern about my appearance but instead I got praise on how amazing I looked. I felt I got more attention and I started getting more principal roles.”

“Angel, Cesar and Marcos Ramirez Castellano have already defied the odds by their very existence, as they are a rare set of identical triplets. But the three 13-year-olds are extraordinary in another way – they are all top young ballet dancers who made it into the elite feeder school for Cuba’s prestigious National Ballet.”

“The world premiere of the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s take on Shakespeare’s Tempest will open the American Ballet Theater’s first fall season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.”