Complexions Contemporary Ballet, an “incomparable American dance company” (Philadelphia Inquirer), debuts at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with three performances on April 14, 15 and 16, 2022, at 7:30 p.m., at the Bram Goldsmith Theatre. The New York-based company presents two works by co-founder/co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden, including the West Coast premiere […]
“It’s about identifying and cultivating talent,” says Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen. “We have made a concerted effort to provide access from the earliest stages…creating space for diverse voices and very different ways of approaching the art form of dance. It means an open mind to let the ballet go where it wants to […]
Daniel Simkinprincipal dancer with American Ballet Theater from 2012-2020, will return to ABT as a guest artist for select performances during the company’s tours and summer 2022 season at the Metropolitan Opera House, the artistic director Kevin McKenzie. Simkin will dance the role of Basilio in Don Quixote at the Metropolitan Opera House, opposite ABT’s […]
Last Friday, January 28, Dance Theater of Harlem returned to the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium for the first time in more than seven years. The 53-year-old dance company has long been a cultural and social fixture in the classical ballet community as one of the largest and most influential multi-ethnic cohorts of dancers and […]
Goldilocks and the Three Bears return in Festival Ballet Providence’s enchanting ChatterBOX theater series at the company’s black box theater, 825 Hope Street, on the East Side of Providence. Performances take place on consecutive weekends, February 5-20, 2022. This audience favourite, choreographed by international prima ballerina Nadia Yanowsky, is back by popular demand after sold-out […]
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announces ChoreograpHER, a female-led program celebrating innovative women in all creative fields, including choreography, music, design and visual arts. The program will include five world premieres from New York City Ballet principal dancer and choreographer Tiler Peck, choreographer Claudia Schreier, visual artist Shantell Martin, Boston Ballet principal dancer and […]
Members of Peninsula Dance Theater | Credit: Cory Weaver When he started teaching hip-hop dance at Peninsula Ballet Theater, Isaac “stuck” Sanders says he wanted to emphasize the joy of a different type of movement. “It was a really good change for ballet students to be open to hip-hop,” he said. “We were giving it […]
Renowned New York dance company Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns to the Staller Center on Saturday, February 5 in a spectacular evening featuring their two most recent full-length pieces performed on the same program for the very first time, in celebration of Black History Month. Under the artistic direction of dance icons Dwight Rhoden and Desmond […]
Start the New Year with tickets to the dazzling performances of Paris Ballet and Dance at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts! Tickets for upcoming Paris Ballet performances go on sale to the public on January 17, including a much-anticipated Cinderella 12th anniversary performance on the Kravis Center main stage in May. […]
CLINTON – After an absence of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gateway Contemporary Ballet is preparing to give its first recital in 2 years today. All dancers must audition to be a member of the Gateway Contemporary Ballet, and they sign a one-year commitment to dance with the company. This year’s member […]
DOWNTOWN – Contemporary Ballet Ekklesia, a local professional faith-based dance company, will present an original ballet, “Ahavah: The Story of Christmas,” this weekend at Middletown High School at 200 LaRosa Lane. The performances will take place on Saturday at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. “Ahavah” (love in Hebrew) is about […]
New York is experiencing a homecoming as theaters of all sizes fill with patrons eager to return to the unparalleled shared experience of live entertainment. Broadway (and Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway) is back, touring is resuming, and companies are planning and performing new repertoire offerings. In the dance world, the homecoming that I have been waiting […]
Throughout the long history of ballet, there have always been contemporary choreographers who have left their own imprint on the art form. “A contemporary ballet choreographer is one who honors and understands the history of ballet while finding ways to innovate and make relevant what is happening in the present,” said the Dean of the […]
Yaoqian Shang as Juliet and Tyrone Singleton as Romeo in R&J Reimagined. Photo: Bill Cooper Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta shows his commitment to exciting contemporary dance alongside the traditional ballet repertoire with his Carlos Curates programs. As they prepare for the festive Nutcracker favorite, the October reunion season at Birmingham Racecourse featured Sir […]
The Tbilisi Contemporary Ballet is working on the creation of its latest work, a “multimedia ballet” involving experimental media and the troupe’s dancers, in a newly redesigned Tbilisi venue from a detention center to a contemporary art space. In the courtyard of the Alternative Art Space No 12, formerly of the penitentiary No 12 in […]
the Cleveland Ballet will spend the summer in Vermilion, according to a new plan by the dance troupe and the Harbourtown Center for Fine Arts. The arts center, located in the historic city hall and performance hall of Vermilion at 736 Main Street, will host its first-ever professional ballet company in residence. HFAC president Jim […]
Two performances will be presented on October 9 at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Cuban Club, 2010 N. Avenida Republica de Cuba at 14th Street, Tampa. INTERSTICES – A Break in Continuity features over 25 dancers and musicians taken from “traditional” sets and introduced to audiences moving in and around the historic Cuban […]
The West Hartford-based Ballet Theater Company will audition potential members on August 27. Submitted After 22 years of providing high-quality artistic experiences to the Greater Hartford community, the Ballet Theater Company (BTC), located in West Hartford, is thrilled to announce the inauguration of a company of resident dancers for its 23rd season. of representation. Since […]
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | OVERVIEW | EVENTS originally published: 06/29/2021 (HOLMDEL, NJ) – Dance fans will have to wait until fall to travel to Manhattan and see the return of many of the country’s top companies. In the meantime, the New York dance world is coming to the Garden State. Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater (AXCBT), […]
Producer, Tom Cummings, former Matthew Bourne dancer Swan Lake, used Unreal Engine to create an award-winning new contemporary ballet feature film. Aberthol, took five years to write, choreograph, film and produce. His company, Renaissance dance theater, received a MegaGrant from Epic Games. “Unreal Engine is more than just a game engine,” Cummings noted. “It is […]
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COVID-19 has killed over 2 million people, but it didn’t kill Helbert Pimenta’s creativity. “For dancers, life is almost like a novel,” explains the Brazilian dancer and choreographer. “We go through a lot, a lot of adversity, a lot of times of struggle – and we adapt, we change and we grow. So COVID is […]
A program of ballet miniatures and the premiere of a work based on music by the late composer Giya Kancheli will open Tbilisi Contemporary Ballet’s new season this month, as the troupe sets out to incorporate experiences of lockdown into their new creations. The season will open with an impromptu stage in the inner courtyard […]
Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater (AXCBT), part of the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal Park, New Jersey, fulfills a desired community need by offering a free, multi-faceted virtual dance and theater program. workshops in response to the national “Stay at Home” order starting in March. Since then, AXCBT has enjoyed impressive attendance and garnered rave […]
Homepage // Promotions and Contests Calling all budding dancers, professionals and retirees! Learn ballet, hip hop and more with world-class performers and instructors through May 3. April 14, 2020Updated: April 14, 2020 1:51 p.m. As Shelter-in-Place continues, Smuin Contemporary Ballet offers aspiring, retired and professional dancers the chance of a lifetime to dance with the […]
People often ask me: why did you create a ballet on climate change? I wanted to communicate what climate change looks like. Art can have an impact on climate change because it affects our perceptions and arouses gut feelings about the issue. The immediacy of the live performance connects us on a visceral and emotional […]
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS By Brent Johnson, JerseyArts.com originally published: 08/14/2019 It started, of course, as a 19th-century whimsical children’s book. In the 1950s, it was made into a Disney cartoon. And 60 years later, Tim Burton has turned it into a piece of modern cinema. Now “Alice in Wonderland” is reimagined […]
Marc Simpson Photography The unknown dancers Alexandra Tiso and Alan Obuzor Alexander Graham Bell’s adage “When one door closes, another door opens” came true for Alexandra Tiso of Texture Contemporary Ballet. to earn a place in the professional company. When that door closed, Alan Obuzor, one of her instructors at PBT, opened the door to […]
Award-winning ballerina, choreographer and artistic director Shoko Tamai returns with her company of five dancers and martial artists for the 2018 season of NINJA BALLET at The Secret Theater, 4402 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY. The company will present five performances, from Thursday June 28 to Sunday July 1. The company’s new work, “MA”, […]
It’s that time again like music hall again presents one of America’s most influential and innovative dance companies, Complexions Contemporary Ballet-Sunday June 17 at 4 p.m. on the main stage, which will close the celebration of Detroit Music Weekend. Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company under Founder Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden has become one of the […]
There’s something remarkably charming about the mix of the traditional and the contemporary – as if two completely different cultures and eras were merged into one. “Jangala” by the Oakland Ballet Company is an example. The production is the brainchild of Graham Lustig, Artistic Director of the Oakland Ballet Company, who wanted to bring the […]
Drip Technicolor Heidi Duckler Dance Theater performs this new site-specific work as part of Culver City’s Centennial “1988” series. Platform, 8850 Washington Blvd., Culver City. Sun., 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. www.heididuckler.org. Fate in Italy Fairies from Tchaikovsky’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ dance to music from Rossini’s ‘William Tell’ in this new mash-up from choreographer Lincoln Jones; […]
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. […]
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is known for tackling current social issues through music and movement, and the New York-based company’s next three nights in Los Angeles are no exception, especially a piece inspired by Maya Angelou . The Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center series is set to host Complexions when it returns to […]
There’s a building on Biscayne Boulevard near downtown Miami that looks like a giant stained glass window. It is home to the National YoungArts Foundation, and the organization, which helps foster the careers of promising young artists, invites artists to enter the space and create. Complexions Contemporary Ballet is the first dance company in residence […]
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 […]
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 […]