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There were leather and piles of silver, feathers and dreadlocks, tattoos and guy-liner. I've never felt like such a square; even before the performance began it had rendered my life meaningless.
Nick had also sent me a lovely adagio for the featured duet, and when I read that peacocks also represent fidelity and faithfulness, I thought it was another great match. It was exciting to see our once broad themes become more focused and inspired.
Ballet is perfect; dancers are not. And thank goodness! A blunder now and then is just enough to remind the audience that what looks easy is actually brutally difficult, and it reminds us that we are not the gods and goddesses we sometimes think we are.
Ivy Baldwin can make us feel. But Anna Schuleit's set design is the only part of Ambient Cowboy that really makes us think.
One of the greatest send-ups of ballet can be seen in Fantasia. With its chubby-chasing zeal, Disney's comic treatment of the Dance of the Hours never fails to elicit laughs.
Moscelyne Larkin was my ballet teacher, and the studio, her home. Although she toured the world with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, her home was Oklahoma. As I read her obituary recalled the last time I spent with her several years ago.
When the Joffrey Ballet performs Liang's Age of Innocence this month, their audience will see the return of a powerful and profound work, presented with richly-woven precision.
At midlife, the fight for fitness is a daily battle, my goal no loftier than to keep my butt from becoming the size and shape of my office chair.
Love, longing and sensuality are at the core of the Joffrey Ballet's "Spring Desire" program. Age of Innocence opens the evening with its tense, formal underpinnings -- expertly juxtaposed with moments of passion.
When I was a child, two things were most important to me: my girlfriends and creating a dance, a picture or a story to delight my soul. I don't know w...
With the exhibition CARBON, the Polyforum Siqueiros in Mexico City presents Tony Orrico's third solo exhibition. Orrico is a visual artist as well as ...
Have you ever wondered how we'll find the next Steve Jobs?
I twisted onto myside while still suspended, I wove my legs up and around the fabric, I arched my back, all the while imagining I was soaring above the gape-mouthed crowd at the 2013 Oscars.
In Last Touch First, Schumacher and Kylián present a slow-motion dance meant to reveal deep psychological truths. Slow motion is always weirdly fascinating, and seeing performers negotiate the physical challenges of near-stillness is doubly so.
