What do the late Muhammad Ali and Misty Copeland have in common? They are both in the National Museum of Dance’s new exhibition, The Dancing Athlete, in Saratoga Springs, New York. The exhibit explores the connections between dance and sports through photography, video footage, costume/attire, sculpture and other memorabilia. Featured artists and athletes include Jacob’s […]
Original Diamonds cavalier Jacques d’Amboise shows PNB soloist Jerome Tisserand how to properly woo a lady onstage. To polish Pacific Northwest Ballet’s staging of Balanchine’s timeless Jewels (1967), artistic director Peter Boal called in the experts. He invited the very first interpreters of lead roles in the ballet to offer their guidance to his cast. Once stars […]
The generosity of arts supporters allows dreamed-up ideas to come to fruition. Thanks to the gifts of two such unnamed donors, Rider University in New Jersey is now accepting submissions for its first-ever Emerging Choreographers Competition. Any dancemaker 18 or older is invited to send in a video, the only stipulation being that he or […]
Edward Villella on DT’s January 2013 coverThis afternoon, Miami City Ballet founding director Edward Villella joined the ranks of George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Arthur Mitchell and Suzanne Farrell (not to mention city planner Robert Moses and folk music legend Pete Seeger) when he accepted the Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts from the American […]
Reflected in the mirrors of Miami City Ballet’s large, airy studio on Miami Beach, Edward Villella’s teaching persona is deceptively understated. Standing before his dancers, the dance icon and founder of MCB waves his hand in an incomplete gesture and mumbles a few almost inaudible words. However, as soon as the first piano chord is […]