At the Paris Olympics, breaking entered as arguably the most exciting new event in decades: an art form sprung from the hip-hop culture of the Bronx, set to take the …
As Mick Jagger’s partner of 10 years — with the promise ring to prove it — former prima ballerina Melanie Hamrick choreographed the rock ballet “Porte Rouge” that was inspired …
LET’S DANCE: Some designers can’t resist stiff fabrics. Albert Kriemler can, adamant that people must be able to move freely in clothes — ballet dancers included. The Akris designer has …
The ballet Romeo and Juliet (composed in 1935 and first performed in 1938), one of the seminal works of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, sets Shakespeare’s story of doomed lovers from …
Ironically, the first staging, in Moscow in 1877, was a failure, and it was not until Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov created a new version in St Petersburg in 1895 …
FASHION IN MOVEMENT: Dior Men’s artistic director Kim Jones has designed the costume for a new dance commission premiering at the Charleston Festival on May 21. The performance, which brings …
Onstage during Arielle Smith’s fabulous new, female-first vision of the classic “Carmen,” which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Ballet Thursday night, the titular character wields a fiery …
Being thin is more a consequence of training, she says. Ballet is a competitive sport in an artistic guise. A dancer of the Bavarian State Ballet stretches during a rehearsal. …
“Most of these questions came at the end of the night after a raucous post-performance party,” says McAllister via video call from his home city, Perth, where he’s filling the …
“Every beginning starts with an idea,” Alonzo King told me when we talked through our screens from across the country. “It’s like Athena appearing out of Zeus’s head. That metaphor …