When you hear names like Maria Kochetkova, Sutton Foster and Robbie Fairchild, you immediately picture flashes of them as the fully-formed, phenomenal performers they are today. But even when they were kids, they had a glimmer of their future star power, giving a glimpse of what was to come. Thankfully for Instagram, we’ve got the […]
So, I haven’t been pirouetting much for a few years now. But when I was dancing, I used to have this amazing recurring dream, which still haunts me: I go to do a pirouette. It becomes clear that I am exactly, perfectly on balance. I have a realization that as long as I keep spotting, […]
Once every four years, some of the ballet world’s best and brightest gather in Jackson, MS, to face off in the super-prestigious USA International Ballet Competition. The event’s list of alums is kind of ridiculous: Boston Ballet’s Misa Kuranaga and Jeffrey Cirio, The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb, American Ballet Theatre’s Daniil Simkin and Sarah Lane, […]
Story ballets are wonderful when you take them on their own terms. But what if real people acted the way dancers do in story ballets? That’s the question posed—and answered, hilariously—by American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin and choreographer Alexander Ekman in the video “Simkin and the City.” Ekman filmed the ABT star on the […]
World-class ballet dancers. An elegant, light-drenched setting. Black-and-white cinematography. A serene orchestral score. It never fails, guys: Give us these ingredients, and we’ll watch your video on loop, forever. Ken Browar and Deborah Ory of NYC Dance Project show their mastery of that beautiful formula in a new video, “The Art of Movement,” created to […]
So, remember when New York City Ballet honored designer Valentino at a big gala that was attended by a gazillion movie stars, and it was awesome? Well, American Ballet Theatre just announced the details of its Metropolitan Opera House gala this May, and it sounds like it’s going to be equally glittery. Yay! Providing the […]