Through Frozen Frantz Jhere is an exciting new program in town called The Greenwich Conservatory of Classical Ballet that will meet the growing needs of our young dance enthusiasts. We asked Mimi Citeralla, founder and director of the program, to tell us about her program. The conservatory, she wrote, was created out of a deep […]
DTLA – The elevator opens to the 32nd floor of The Bloc office tower complex on Seventh Street, revealing what looks like empty and decaying office space. Cracks and pockmarks run along the rough concrete floor; overhead are exposed pipes and worn insulation, resembling a mutated mess of popcorn. [Get DTLA stories in our daily […]
The studios reflect a traditional Russian ballet academy, with senior instructors who received their Vaganova ballet training at top professional institutions and danced in professional ballet companies. “I want to show the beauty of ballet, and my goal is to have my students create visual art for the public,” says Nikolai Morschakov, Artistic Director and […]
The School of Classical Ballet’s annual student performance, “Moved to Dance,” will be staged at the Alberta Bair Theater on Saturday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 21 at 2 p.m. Directors Betty Loos and Julia Marble will share their students’ achievements in a program with dance styles ranging from ballet to hip-hop. […]
LONDON — As an African-American soloist with the UK’s Royal Ballet, Eric Underwood says he’s often asked why the ballet world isn’t very diverse. It’s complicated, says Underwood. Race, income, social hierarchies, and other factors often conspire to create a situation that excludes people of color from the serious pursuit of dance. “I think because […]
Thanks to the composer Tchaikovsky and the choreographer Marius Petipa, the preparation for the heroine’s entrance in “La Belle au bois dormant” is the most powerful of all ballets. Act I is Princess Aurora’s 20th birthday. (Many productions change it to his 16th.) The scene begins with the king punishing, then forgiving, some harmless knitters […]
The Festival Ballet Theater will open its 28th season this week with a production that combines dance, multimedia stage projections, an original musical score and a well-known children’s novel from 1911. “The Secret Garden”, choreographed by Josie Walsh, invites the public to see Movement of the 21st century interpreted by dancers who study an art […]
Back-to-school season is in full swing and as many young dancers across the country prepare for another big season of dance training, Miami has started its school year without one of its oldest dance schools. and the most prestigious. Ballet Concerto School founders Martha del Pino and Sonia Diaz announced to their student body in […]
Daniel Levins, a dancer sometimes known professionally as Daniel Levans, who rose to prominence as a teenager in Eliot Feld’s famous American Ballet Company and as a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater in the 1970, died September 15 in Brooklyn. He was 61 years old. Her husband, Eugene Gabriel-Thomas Walsh, said the cause […]
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The Blue Train proved to be the perfect personality piece for Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet, bringing out the playful side of the company as the dancers frolic and tease in their expansive portrayal of wealthy French vacationers. The obscure 1924 ballet uses the favorite sports of the wealthy – tennis, swimming and golf – to parody […]
Eight young women, including three with ties to Clackamas County, have qualified to compete and compete in the Youth America Grand Prix Finals April 10-15 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Calling the event the “Ballet Olympics,” Sarah Rigles, principal of the Classical Ballet Academy on Southeast Milwaukie Avenue in Portland, where all the […]
In 2007, Misty Copeland became one of classical ballet’s most recognizable figures when she secured a spot as the first black soloist in two decades to perform with American Ballet Theatre. Five years later, she continued to make history by becoming the first African-American woman to take on the title role in Igor Stravinsky’s iconic […]
When New York City Ballet’s “city.ballet” debuts Nov. 4 on AOL On, the ballet and AOL are hoping for mutual gains: New York City Ballet reaches a larger audience than it could hold for an entire his 21-week season. at Lincoln Center, and AOL is adding a nerd program to its lineup of web series. […]