Dance often helps us explore our emotions and internal life, but sometimes, it inspires us to explore the outside world too. The GLANCE Project takes on that challenge through a collaboration among many different artists: dancers Cyril Choukroun, Hugo Vigliotti and Matthieu Botto of the Paris Opéra Ballet; music producer Jonathan Amic; and film gurus Adi […]
There are wonderful old stories about great choreographers and their muses: Michel Fokine and Vaslav Nijinsky, Frederick Ashton and Margot Fonteyn, George Balanchine and Maria Tallchief…and Tanaquil Le Clercq…and Suzanne Farrell. But what does a modern muse look like? What does does it mean to be a muse in the 21st century? Makeup company Estée […]
ABT’s Veronika Part and Marcelo Gomes in “Swan Lake,” part of the gala program. (photo Siggul/Visual Arts Masters) Nobody puts on a ballet gala quite like Youth America Grand Prix. Their must-see performances routinely feature bold-faced names from all over the world. Watching all those ballet superstars sharing a single stage is one of those […]
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 […]
New York City Ballet has been on a serious fashion kick recently. First there were Gilles Mendel’s costumes for Melissa Barak’s Call Me Ben a couple of years ago. Then there were Stella McCartney’s designs for Ocean’s Kingdom, with music and story by her dad Sir Paul. Most recently, there were the Rodarte and Mendel […]
Ah, the French. They really do have a flair for drama. In most ballet companies, even the biggest promotions happen quietly, offstage. At Paris Opéra Ballet, when someone is made an étoile (“star” in French—the equivalent of principal), the announcement happens onstage, usually following a breakthrough performance by the dancer in question. The audience gets […]
Fashion and ballet have always played well together. On the heels of the announcement that Rodarte and Gilles Mendel will design costumes for New York City Ballet’s spring gala comes this news: Christian Lacroix’s costumes for Paris Opéra Ballet’s La Source (which premiered last fall) will have their own exhibit at The National Costume Museum […]