Former New York City Ballet principal Robert Fairchild has made it to the top of both the ballet and the Broadway worlds—and his career just keeps getting more exciting. Though Fairchild grew up studying jazz and tap in his home state of Utah, he danced with NYCB for nine years before taking his first professional […]
Couldn’t make it to the Tony Award–winning Broadway revival of An American in Paris? Or DID make it to the show, but now miss it like ca-razy? Either way, we have fabulous news: Both today and Sunday, September 23, movie theaters across America are screening the gorgeous musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. The […]
It made us so, so happy just to type those three very bold-faced names into a single title. So you can imagine how excited we are to share this clip from the performance that group of legends put together for the Fire Island Dance Festival this weekend. Travis Wall (choreographer extraordinaire, “So You Think You […]
As far as musical theater news is concerned, this week has been liiiiiiiiit. On Tuesday, we reported that Carousel is coming back to Broadway next year in a production featuring several New York City Ballet favorites. Now there’s word that two more of our ballet/Broadway baes are at the helm of a new City Center […]
If you lived for Megan Fairchild in On the Town and Robbie Fairchild as An American in Paris, get stoked. Next March 23, a revival of Carousel is opening on Broadway, featuring the talents of no fewer than three New York City Ballet stars. As reported by The New York Times, Justin Peck will choreograph […]
The New York Dance and Performance Awards—known fondly as the Bessies—are back! They’re the dance world’s Academy Awards, if you will. Named after dance pioneer Bessie Schonberg, the Bessies are more and more impressive each year. 2015’s nominees are no exception. The list is huge and sparkling. There’s all the ballet that made headlines this year, from […]
New York City Ballet’s awesome media department strikes again! The company just posted a series of “screen test” videos to its YouTube channel, featuring interviews with eight of the company’s most charismatic dancers. What do they talk about? Well, everything, from their pre-show rituals to their adventures in scuba diving. It’s pretty fun to see […]
Dancers (including director Damian Woetzel, right) rocking out at the Vail International Dance Festival. Photo by Caitie Kakigi. National Dance Day is this Saturday, July 27—and the town of Vail, Colorado, home of the awesome Vail International Dance Festival, is celebrating in style with a three-hour dance-a-thon fundraiser. (It’ll benefit four dance-y organizations, including the […]