“American Ballet Theater tours and performs at New York City Center in the fall. A major part of its season takes place in June and early July at the Metropolitan Opera House across the Lincoln Center Plaza from the Koch Theater, where City Ballet performs at roughly the same time.”
Category: dance
The Joy Of Fact-Checking With Fred, Ginger, Adele, And YouTube
“Here is the best time an editor might ever have fact-checking: picking through a 3,700-word essay on the song-and-dance partnership of Fred and Adele Astaire.”
Bill T. Jones To Create New Rite Of Spring
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s upcoming season, which will also include reconstructions of some of the group’s early works, will feature a new version of the Stravinsky ballet co-created with Anne Bogart’s theater company, SITI.
Bollywood Dance – Watching The Sausage Get Made
“Ace Kathak-inspired choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi explains to Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell how the worlds of classic and modern Indian dance collide in Wah! Wah! Girls, a Bollywood musical set in London’s vibrant East End.”
Why Make A Reality TV Series About A Ballet Company?
“‘I had a couple of real obsessions with worlds I wanted to explore dramatically,’ Jane Tranter, the head of BBC Worldwide Productions, which is producing the show [titled Breaking Pointe], said recently. ‘One was ballet, the other was a convent.’ Each, Ms. Tranter said, offered ‘a world which is a hidden world: there’s what the public sees, and what happens underneath’.”
Staging An Ant Ballet (Yes, With Real Ants)
“[Ollie] Palmer’s project, Ant Ballet, is an augmentation of ant societal behavior. By appealing to their most base instincts – hacking the pheromone signals that ants rely upon for communication – Palmer is able to manipulate ants, to choreograph their movements.”
Two Decades Of The Major Ballet Prize Most Americans Have Never Heard Of
“One of the most prestigious prizes in the world of ballet, Benois de la Danse, celebrated its 20th anniversary last week at the Main Stage of the Bolshoi Theater.” Among the top winners: Alina Cojocaru and Lar Lubovitch.
Judging Tony Nominees By Their Dance Numbers
“What criteria are involved? In ballet and modern dance, choreography is the shaping factor, the ingredient that brings music, subject matter and performance together into a whole; in a musical, that’s seldom so. But the great choreographers are great directors too: inventors of their own genres of theater.”
French Ballet Is Different – And Here’s How
“Showy individualism is typically rejected in favor of tradition. Almost every dancer studies at the Paris Opera Ballet School, leading to consistent training that must be maintained throughout a career.”
Polina Semionova Joins American Ballet Theater
The 27-year-old Muscovite, who has been a principal at the Berlin State Ballet for the past decade and first danced with ABT as a guest only last year, will become a full-time principal with the company this fall.