Is print journalism dead? Where is dance writing headed? In twenty years from now, who will we honor for their words about dance? In an article entitled “A Step to the Left, a Jump to the Write” My Two Left Feet brainstorms about the future of dance criticism: Everyone seems to agree that dance writing [...]
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Check out some outtakes from our visit to The Tokyo Ballet via our collaborator Susanne Reffert’s own blog Chipango. With yet more rehearsal pictures, her feature is entitled Behind the Scenes: The Tokyo Ballet: The Tokyo Ballet is a big company which performs internationally. I was a bit surprised to see that the dancers were [...]
For Jonathan Still, if ever there was a choreographer who could make dance the new rock n’ roll, it’s Kristen McNally. We agree, having raved about her latest work for the Linbury Studio Theatre ourselves. McNally shows that modern ballet can still use narrative threads; that it needn’t be pure abstraction in order to break [...]
We’re loving Haglund’s post about ballet legend Alicia Alonso and her epic visit to ABT earlier this week where she made a diplomatic call for “devoting our time to celebrating the beauty and our love for dance instead of fighting with one another”: She’s mythical – Alicia Alonso, that is. Really, no human could have [...]
Our pick this week is Oberon’s Grove account of Ashley Bouder‘s revelatory performance in Donizetti Variations, followed by equally powerful dancing from four other NYCB principals in Stravinsky Violin Concerto: The audience were clearly bedazzled by Ashley’s prodigious pirouettes, flashing jumps and the fiorature of her footwork, calling the ballerina and her dashing cavalier Andrew [...]
