Yes, dance artists are turning up more and more frequently in the pages of mainstream publications (and YAY for that trend!). But it’s pretty rare for the renowned New York Times to feature a teenage dancer. Then again, it’s pretty rare for anyone to be as all-around fabulous as Larsen Thompson. This weekend, the Times […]
Um. So. The New York Times just kicked off a new section, “Men’s Style.” Which you wouldn’t really care much about except that we mean “kicked off” literally. One of the section’s first stories, about suits that are more relaxed than buttoned-up, featured accompanying photos and video of two verrrrrrry pretty models: Zachary Catazaro and […]
It’s fascinating when you get a glimpse of a dancer’s offstage life, and it’s completely the opposite of what you’d expect based on her onstage presence. In a way it’s even better, though, when you find out that an artist’s non-dancer persona is exactly in tune with her dancer persona. There’s the sense that this […]
Driving in NYC is the. absolute. worst. It’s always traffic-y, and everyone is perpetually in a bad mood because, you know, bad moods are what New Yorkers do best. But all that changes at one Upper East Side intersection—the one manned by 61-year-old traffic enforcement agent Mentoria Hutchinson. Because Ms. Hutchinson has made that intersection […]
As you probably guessed immediately after hearing his amazing last name, Benjamin Millepied (seriously—could there be a better name for a dancer?) is a Frenchman, born in Bordeaux. But since he’s spent most of his career in the States, dancing at New York City Ballet and choreographing all over, it was a shock to the […]
First things first: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater‘s Alicia Graf Mack is extraordinary. I initially watched this New York Times video without sound, and that was just fine: Mack’s endless limbs and serene focus were enough to keep me glued to the screen. (There’s some nice footage of AAADT performing Ailey’s Revelations and Rennie Harris’ […]