George Balanchine

Dancers: and the short shall be tall

There’s a new star on the New York City Ballet horizon: Daniel Ulbricht. The fact that I’d never even heard of him (or most of the current dancers in the company) until I read this article reminds me how long it’s been...

PNB will premiere two works in a thoroughly Tharp program

By R.M. CAMPBELL P-I DANCE CRITIC Twyla Tharp, a seminal figure in dance, may be petite but she is not wispy. PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET PROGRAM: Opening gala: works of Balanchine, Tharp and Wheeldon WHEN/WHERE: Saturday at...

Ballet Arizona kicks up its heels at park performances for free

Ballet, as an art form, will always have to deal with a fair number of negative stereotypes. "It's boring." "It's girly." "It's for far stuffier folks than myself." Get Set, Go! Your complete upcoming arts season list...

Jiří and Otto Bubeníček

Sep 12, 2008

These twin brothers are the stars of the world-renowned Hamburg Ballet. Jiří Bubeníček This dancer and choreographer graduated from the dance conservatory in Prague in 1993. He played the title roles in the ballets of...

Dance professor travels the world

TODAY For many, traveling the world may seem like a life dream. For Sacramento State dance studies professor Nolan T'sani, traveling the world was simply a perk that came along with his gifted talent: dancing ballet. Soon...

Dance calendar

Ballet Austin brings 'The Nutcracker' to the new Long Center, while Austin indie dance thrives Wednesday, September 03, 2008 So you think Austin can dance? It can. And this arts season it will do so in a cornucopia of...

New York City Center: 2008–2009 Preview

New York City Center's history lives on in this season's dance attractions, starting with the Fall for Dance Festival which begins Sept. 17. Having begun life in 1943 as a people's theater, a place where New Yorkers could...

Dancers and musicians in step at SummerFest finale

Dancers and musicians taking bows together, hand-in-hand, is not something you usually see at the San Diego debut of a New York modern dance company. But it happened on Friday at “Dancing at SummerFest: Rioult” at the...

Joffrey Ballet: Home at Last

The Joffrey Ballet puts down roots with a new, state of the art facility in the Loop. Ashley Wheater, a British dancer and former assistant to the artistic director of San Francisco Ballet, took the reins as artistic director...

Sousa the Storyteller

Aug 16, 2008

The March King also knew his way around a typewriter Everybody knows that John Philip Sousa wrote "Stars and Stripes Forever." For that matter, just about everybody who played in a high-school marching band knows that Sousa was...