How many companies can brag that most of their dancers are choreographers, too? That’s one of the reasons we’re obsessed with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet: a significant percentage of its artists have experimented with choreography. (Some of them—like Billy Bell, one of our February cover stars—even have choreographic side projects of their own.) It makes […]
When we met up with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet “new kids” Ida Saki, Billy Bell and Navarra Novy-Williams for our February cover shoot, the company was in a state of limbo. Artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer had resigned in May 2013, and both the dancers and long-time ballet master and rehearsal director Alexandra Damiani were anxiously […]
Here’s what you already know about Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet: It’s a company of unique, thoughtful, brilliant dancers. It has a beautiful home in NYC, but it also tours all over the world. Its repertoire, which has a European flair, is as stimulating intellectually as it is physically. Thanks to all that, Cedar Lake has […]
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If you’re a Billy Bell fan (and if you’re not, we’re not friends anymore), you know that Billy recently joined the very prestigious Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. If you’re a Cedar Lake fan (and if not, again, we just don’t get you), you know that the company tours all over the place on a regular […]
The annual Destiny Rising gala benefits the awesome New York City Dance Alliance Foundation, which is dedicated to helping young dancers fund their college educations. So how fitting is it that at last night’s Destiny Rising performance, it was a college dance company that stole the show? That would be the Conservatory Dance Company of […]
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is undoubtedly one of the coolest companies around right now. Dancers are dying to get their pretty little feet into Cedar Lake’s (so gorgeous) doors, and we totally get it. The company is young, fresh, cool and edgy—but it’s also legit. The dancers are goooooood (and they’re Dance Spirit cover veterans, […]
Joe Wright’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina hits select theaters today. While you’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about its stars—particularly Keira Knightly’s powerful performance in the title role—you may not have heard that it also has some serious dance cred. The story of a 19th-century Russian adultress who commits suicide by […]