Unity Phelan “City.ballet.” is back! And the Season 2 premiere is plenty tantalizing. They promised us more up-close input from dancers, and we’ve already got two very interesting characters to follow. We meet two corps members, starting with 19-year-old Unity Phelan, who is beginning her first season with New York City Ballet. I really don’t […]
One of our favorite web series is almost back! On Tuesday, November 4, AOL Originals’ “city.ballet.” returns with 12 new episodes about life in the one and only New York City Ballet. After last season, which covered broad topics like what it means to be in the corps and how it feels to get a […]
Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall in After the Rain Yesssss After the Rain. There can never be enough of that heart-wrenching Christopher Wheeldon ballet. And for those of you lucky enough to be in New York City this weekend, you’ll have a chance to see it live, for free, performed by none other than the soon-to-retire Wendy Whelan, […]
Lil Buck is basically unstoppable. The street dancer guested last week with New York City Ballet in the premiere of visual artist JR’s Les Bosquets and is featured in the May issue of VOGUE. The magazine released this artsy, single-angle video of Buck doing what he does best: mesmerizing, physics-defying Memphis jookin. He looks like he’s on an ice […]
We dancers are lucky the rest of the population has become so interested in our craft. It means there are more outlets for films like Ballet 422, which will be featured in the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (April 16–April 27). Originally backed through crowd-funding site Hatchfund, Ballet 422 documents the creation of Justin Peck’s latest work for New York […]
I think I speak for most former dancers when I say it’s easy to feel jealous of professional ballerinas. The lives they lead! What if that was me? What if I’d auditioned for companies instead of going to college? Would I be Ashley Bouder now? Setting aside the fact that the odds of joining New York City […]
“Now the work begins,” warns Peter Martins, as newly hired corps members celebrate their contracts. The third installment of New York City Ballet’s “city.ballet.” webseries introduces viewers to life in the corps of one of the nation’s top companies. The corps is, put simply by narrator and executive producer Sarah Jessica Parker, “the large group […]
AOL released its new web series “city.ballet” today. Following the growing trend of straight-to-Netflix series, all 12 episodes about the inner workings of New York City Ballet are now available online, each about six to eight minutes long. But that’s no reason we can’t appreciate them one week at a time, like a good old-fashioned […]
Presenting a young Peter Martins, Twyla Tharp and ’70s NFL icon Lynn Swann in Tharp’s Dance is a Man’s Sport, Too. (And thanks to our sister publication Dance Magazine for sharing it!) Swann is known for taking ballet classes to improve his vertical jump and agility on the field. In this clip, he shows off […]
This morning, New York City Ballet released “New Beginnings,” a video featuring Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour dancing on a roof in the shadow of One World Trade Center. The pair performed the pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain, a ballet whose music alone is enough to stir emotion. Filmed at […]