December 13, 2024
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Friday, December 13, 2024
Founder of Ballet With Isabella, on Finding Her Purpose
Isabella McGuire Mayes
BWI in the press. View this press release by Pointe magazine, talking about how Isabella found her purpose through dance. Read more!
BBC Strictly final: Friend reveals Chris McCausland's biggest hurdle to winning
bbc.com
Chris turned down appearing on the series multiple times before becoming this year's fan-favourite.
The Royal Ballet promotes Melissa Hamilton to Principal Dancer
@gramilano
Melissa Hamilton has been promoted to Principal Dancer, the highest rank in The Royal Ballet, taking effect from 1 January 2025.
At Atlanta Ballet, Students Get a Leg Up Professionally by Working With Company Répétiteurs
Sponsored by Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education
By the time Rachel Zinman finished her first year with Atlanta Ballet 2 (AB2), the highest level of the company’s Centre for Dance Education, she already had multiple professional performances to her name. “I very much love it here,” says Zinman, who moved from Canada to join the school’s program. This December, Zinman—now in her second year at AB2—will take on four roles in the company’s Nutcracker, as well as dance in Atlanta Ballet’s Christmas performance at the city’s Lenox ...
American Ballet Theatre Celebrates 85 Years During Six Week Summer Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, June 10 – July 19, 2025
Susie
Summer Season to Feature American Ballet Theatre’s New York Premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale Swan Lake to Enjoy Two Performance Weeks in Honor Of 25th Anniversary Reece Clarke and Olga Smirnova Join ABT as Guest Artists For 2025 Summer Season Subscriptions On Sale Monday, December 16 at 12:00 P.M.
Releasing and Reconditioning With New Jersey Ballet’s SeHyun Jin
Kyra Laubacher
When SeHyun Jin joined New Jersey Ballet in 2018, she noticed a pain in her back during the company’s Nutcracker run. It turned out to be a herniated disc, and she traveled home to South Korea for surgery. “I didn’t really do any physical therapy there,” says Jin. “I just wanted to come back to America and get back to work. But because of that, I lost so much muscle.” Back in New Jersey postsurgery, Jin started to pursue options for rehabilitation. She found Soo K. Jung, a local master ...
Top 10 dance in Chicago of 2024
Joffrey Ballet
IMPRESSIONS: A Very SWING OUT Holiday at Joyce Theater
The Dance Enthusiast
"The curtain rises to reveal festivities already in full swing and the owners of those feet Lindy-Hopping alone and in pairs. The show, created by dancers Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh, Caleb Teicher and bandmaster Eyal Vilner, is more jubilee than standard performance, and its boisterous energy is infectious." - Cecly Placenti, New York
IMPRESSIONS: ISMAËL MOUARAKI's "Le sacre de Lila" at New York Live Arts
The Dance Enthusiast
"The dancers explore trance by drawing inspiration from the Lila (“night” in Arabic) ceremonies of North Africa traditionally practiced among Maghreb communities" Kristen Hedberg, New York
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST ASKS: Guest Writer Pia Catton Introduces Us to a Remarkable Dance Artist, Lili Tewes
The Dance Enthusiast
" When I was 10, a Hawai’ian dance company came to Hamburg to perform, and I joined one of their workshops. My feet just knew where they were going! At one point, my now kumu hula (master teacher) said, “Are you sure you are not Hawai’ian?” Lili Tewes, New York
Ballets cancelled at the Paris Opera due to dancers' strike action
@gramilano
Five performances Paquita and Alexander Ekman’s long sold-out Play at the Paris Opera have been cancelled due to the dancers' strike.
Review: Tanz Luzern in Beyond – The Human Attributes
@GWDanceWriter
Graham Watts sees Tanz Luzern in Beyond, a double bill with The Human Attributes and SEREMOS – a small company punching well above its weight.
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