GEORGE BALANCHINE

CULTURE & ARTS
First Nighter: Travis Russ's "Gorey," Drew Droege's "Bright Colors and Bold Patterns," The Simon Green-David Shrubsole "Life is for Living: Conversations With Noel Coward"
By David Finkle, Contributor
Writer, Drama Critic
Full of references to pop culture (he's surprised that Mac doesn't recognize the name Nia Peebles), Gerry goes on to ramble
CULTURE & ARTS
Is Boston Ballet the Best Ballet Company in America?
By Michael Levin, Contributor
New York Times best selling author Michael Levin writes freque...
It's hard to rank dance companies. Different ensembles have different objectives, different audiences, different strengths
CULTURE & ARTS
Seen and Now Heard: ENB's 'She Said' Gives Women Choreographers a Voice
By Meghan Feeks, Contributor
New Yorker. Londoner. Writer. Lover of dance, travel and food.
Photo by Laurent Liotardo Dieuweke van Reij's scenography is visually stunning, combining elaborate costumes and makeup with
SAN FRANCISCO
A Conversation With Frances Chung, Principal Dancer at San Francisco Ballet
By Sean Martinfield, Contributor
Writer, Musician
Frances Chung has danced with San Francisco Ballet since 2001. She was promoted to soloist in 2005 and raised to principal dancer in 2009.
CULTURE & ARTS
Paris Opera Ballet Performs Balanchine, Robbins, Ratmansky, and Peck
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
And so the Paris Opera Ballet has beat us at our own game. Sometimes it only takes a fresh pair of eyes to see new folds
SAN FRANCISCO
A Profile of Vitor Luiz - Principal Dancer at San Francisco Ballet
By Sean Martinfield, Contributor
Writer, Musician
It's something in the way he moves. Vitor Luiz joined San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 2009. His gift is about
SAN FRANCISCO
Carlo Di Lanno on 'Swan Lake' -- Now at San Francisco Ballet
By Sean Martinfield, Contributor
Writer, Musician
Carlo sent a video to a number of companies showing his work in Swan Lake and Diamonds as well as a sample from Ratmansky's
CULTURE & ARTS
'Cabin in the Sky:' A Ring Shout of Well-Intentioned Condescension
By Barry Singer, Contributor
Writes about the Arts, Literature & Winston Churchill. He is t...
I am fond of the 1943 movie, but it does have its problems. The opportunity to finally see the show at City Center's Encores! series last week, ostensibly as it was originally performed in 1940 on Broadway, filled me with anticipation. And trepidation.
ENTERTAINMENT
Falling In Luft with Lorna - at Feinstein's 54 Below
By Mia Berman, Contributor
Mia Berman is a writer/performer with a humorous, satiric poin...
Talk about turning a mood around. Blending wit, wisdom and humor, Lorna has inherited the gift of comedy, commentary and
CULTURE & ARTS
'The Nutcracker' in New York City
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
For many, The Nutcracker is a holiday tradition, ushering in the season with growing trees, toy-sized battles, and sugarplum fairies tottering from one pointe shoe to the other.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Bolshoi Theater's Prodigy Ballerina Explains Her Journey
By Priscilla Frank
"This was not easy, it’s not easy now, it will never be easy. But I managed it, which means I was ready for it."
CULTURE & ARTS
The Bessie's: The Dance Community Awards Excellence Among Its Members
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
It's especially lovely when the dance community can gather together and applaud each other's efforts. Such is the environment at the Bessie's, dance's version of the Academy Awards or the Tony's. This year, the 31st-annual ceremony took place at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, with its iconic neon-red sign.
CULTURE & ARTS
New York City Ballet Fall Gala 2015: An Evening of Fashion and Dance
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
The New York City Ballet has returned with all its relevance, strong and modern. The dancers are not "stingy." They are not "holding back." They exist in the "now," "right now." Balanchine would be proud.
NEW YORK
The Faithful Shopper: A City for Divine Dancers
By Faith Hope Consolo, Contributor
The Queen of Retail - Creating Beautiful Retail Corridors Worl...
There's no shortage of supplies, services or opportunities for every one of the city's delightful dancers and extraordinary dance companies.
CULTURE & ARTS
After 17 Years of Devotion, Ella Baff Exits Jacob's Pillow
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
But while Baff's physical imprint on the property has been huge, it's her realized vision of Jacob's Pillow as a breeding ground for art that has made the largest impact on dance.
CULTURE & ARTS
The Ashley Bouder Project Disappoints at the Joyce's Ballet Festival
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
Of course, The Ashley Bouder Project was the most popular show of the run, and people begged for seats regardless of price. Somehow, "bravos" echoed despite a banal bill filled with the kind of choreography that is pushing ballet into its grave.
CULTURE & ARTS
Fifty Shades of Bland: Chamber Dance Project at the Joyce
By Christopher Atamian, Contributor
Chris Atamian is a New York based Writer, Filmmaker and Multi-...
Attired in drab jeans and shirts, the boyishly charming Jacob Bush and the sophisticated Davit Hovhannisyan did a credible job of executing movements both standing and on the ground, but they seemed uncomfortable and tenuous at times. Were they lovers quarrelling or quarrellers loving?
CULTURE & ARTS
Women on Top: On the Town, New York City Ballet Classic I and American Ballet Theatre's Giselle
By Carla Escoda, Contributor
Dance, theatre, and arts critic, based in San Francisco.
Ivy Smith, however, is just another stock character - an ingénue-with-a-secret. There's another one of them in American in
CULTURE & ARTS
Composer Elliot Goldenthal: American Ballet Theater's Othello and Grounded at the Public Theater
By Regina Weinreich, Contributor
Author, 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics'
This week's opening of the American Ballet Theater's Othello at the Metropolitan Opera House, a version of Shakespeare's tragedy about the warrior king who succumbs to the manipulations of an ensign, and murders the love of his life, marks ABT's commitment to newer works.
CULTURE & ARTS
Luscious New Dance Film Toasts 75 Years of American Ballet Theatre
By Carla Escoda, Contributor
Dance, theatre, and arts critic, based in San Francisco.
Nearly a decade in the works, American Masters - American Ballet Theatre: A History feels more like an eccentric personal meditation, or a love letter to the art form, than a historical trek through the company's 75 storied years.
ARTS
CultureZohn: Dance in Los Angeles Adds Luster With Colburn School Dance Academy
By Patricia Zohn, Contributor
Culture Columnist, CultureZohn,
Benjamin Millepied, Jenifer Ringer and James Fayette mark the first year of the dynamic Colburn Dance Academy. As George Balanchine once famously said you need to promote professional ballet, "First, a school."
ENTERTAINMENT
First Nighter: Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon Sparks the Gershwins' 'An American in Paris'
By David Finkle, Contributor
Writer, Drama Critic
Christopher Wheeldon's choreography for An American in Paris, at the Palace, is so spectacular that you have to forgive anything else wrong with the production--and believe you me, there's plenty to forgive--and I mean plenty.
SAN FRANCISCO
A Profile of Hansuke Yamamoto, Soloist With San Francisco Ballet
By Sean Martinfield, Contributor
Writer, Musician
I first saw Hansuke Yamamoto as the Bluebird in San Francisco Ballet's 2006 presentation of Sleeping Beauty. He leaped out from stage right and at such height that it sparked an audible gasp throughout the War Memorial Opera House.
CULTURE & ARTS
Peter Walker: A New Voice on the Dance Scene
By Alexandra Villarreal, Contributor
Student, Writer
For a 22-year-old, Walker is refreshingly cognizant of one of dance's most perturbing problems: the need for a choreographer to somehow establish himself as novel when so much has already been produced for the stage.
CULTURE & ARTS
Paul Taylor's Legacy Plan Champions Modern Dance
By Phil Chan, Contributor
Arts and Culture Director
What is the life of a painting? In an artist's hands, a previously anonymous canvas and a random assortment of paint suddenly becomes not only an expression of an idea, but a commodity that often lives beyond the artist himself.
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