Category: dance

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed at New York City Center since 1971, but the arrangement has not been formalized until now: Both parties will announce Tuesday that the troupe will become the venue’s Principal Dance Company.”

“Six years [after its debut,] the construct of Dancing With the Stars is being turned on its head. In some ways those pros – ‘Cheryl! Maks! Derek!’ – have now become the headliners. The increasingly C-list celebrities lined up to participate have found they are no longer alone in the spotlight.”

“I am shaking in my boots, but you know, I do feel an amount of pressure, not only with that first performance, but also with doing this justice. I mean, I think it’s really important for an American to go to a company as storied as this, as historical as this.”

“Dance duo the Ballet Boyz have been commissioned to make 20 short films as part of Channel 4’s new arts strand Random Acts.”

“Edward Villella, the founder and director of Miami City Ballet, will be leaving the company he has built into one of South Florida’s leading artistic institutions and one of the nation’s top dance companies at the end of the 2012-2013 season.”

“Merce Cunningham’s artistic heirs plan to offer classes in his technique after his dance company ceases operations at the end of the year.”

Ethan Stiefel, the new artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and his wife, American Ballet Theater star Gillian Murphy, talk about easing into their new roles with the company – and into Wellington.

“One day Edward Watson awoke to find that he had been transformed into a giant insect. The Royal Ballet star is at the centre of a new dance version of The Metamorphosis, a commission for ROH2 that brings Kafka’s famous novella to life.”

“David Hallberg, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, is becoming the first American star to enlist permanently with the fabled Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow.”

“Indeed, the marriage between science and dance would seem about as likely as that between Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. But opposites attract, as the physicists know, and it is perhaps not so odd that scientific thought should intrigue the contemporary choreographer.”