It’s fashion week in NYC! One of the things I love about this city is that all the glamorous fall runway shows, now held at Lincoln Center, overlap New York City Ballet’s winter season at the Koch Theater. Two of my favorite things in one beautiful plaza? Yes please! But as we’ve discussed before, there’s […]
It seems like the ballet world always has one or two James Dean-y bad boys, super-talented men who buck convention—not always the easiest thing to do in ballet—and do things their own way. Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carlos Acosta, Rasta Thomas (who founded, fittingly, the Bad Boys of Dance): They’re all amazing performers who, thanks […]
For most New Yorkers, the arrival of spring means long afternoons in Central Park, deciding to walk to the subway stop that’s a few blocks farther away, eating brunch alfresco. But for some lucky bunheads, spring means something else entirely: It’s ballet gala season! For a few glorious weeks in April and May, dance editors […]