Tag: agon

Miriam Miller's New York City Ballet Fairy Tale

Glamorous Titania in George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The imperious principal woman in Balanchine’s Agon. These are the types of juicy, career-making roles veteran dancers aspire to—but a 19-year-old in New York City Ballet’s corps has already put her distinctive stamp on both of them. Meet Miriam Miller. Though the luxuriously leggy, quietly magnetic […]

Ballet All Day

Happy National Dance Day, fellow dancers! We asked you the other day how you’d be celebrating our favorite holiday, and while it seems like a lot of you will be taking classes, performing and dancing anywhere and everywhere you can, we’re here to suggest an alternative: Ballet binge-watching marathon, anyone? Nothing’s more frustrating than searching […]

Pretty Pretty PNB

Pacific Northwest Ballet is performing in NYC this week, and I could. not. be. happier. Though I’ve loved this company (especially the amazingly amazing Carla Körbes) for ages, it’s so rare that I actually get a chance to see them dance live. But not this week. This week I get to see them twice. The […]