Tag: george balanchine

Dancer Love

What a busy, happy weekend it was at New York City Ballet! Yesterday I told you about Rebecca Krohn and Ana Sophia Scheller, who were both made principals on Saturday afternoon. Today I found out that principal Sebastien Marcovici proposed to fellow principal Janie Taylor on Friday night, after the pair performed in Balanchine’s oh-so-romantic […]

Words That Inspire

Describing dance is one of the hardest things in the world to do. But in the right hands, dance’s poetry has a singular power to inspire beautiful, memorable words. Here are a few of my favorite dance quotes. They’re the sayings I look to on bad days, when I’m feeling depressed or stuck or unmotivated. […]

Dinner, Balanchine Style

I’ve always been intrigued by dancers’ fascination with cooking. For all the talk about the dance world’s eating-disorder plague (a lot of it, unfortunately, merited), many dancers seem to find cooking (and eating) to be a great way to unwind after a stressful day at the studio. Gotta refuel after all that rehearsal, right? Along […]

Advice from the Fantastic Allegra Kent

This afternoon, New York City Ballet legend Allegra Kent, one of my idols, stopped by the DanceMedia offices. Once I’d finished hyperventilating with excitement—seriously, this is the ballerina who fascinated George Balanchine throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and inspired some of his greatest masterpieces!—we chatted about her adorable new children’s book, Ballerina Swan, which […]