Alexei Ratmansky

Don Quixote at Pacific Northwest Ballet

Steven Mesler | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Choreography, Dance, Pacific Northwest, Pnb, Alexei Ratmansky, Arts News
Steven Mesler

Finding an unflattering photo, film clip, or an awkward moment of Carla Körbes and Karel Cruz together is impossible. The two of them dance the leads in the American premiere of Don Quixote and they are not to be missed.

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A More Intimate 'Nutcracker'

AP | By JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Alexei Ratmansky Nutcracker, The Nutcracker, Ballet, Theater, The Nutcracker American Ballet Theater, Bam, Nutcracker, Alexei Ratmansky, Culture News

NEW YORK -- "Intimate" isn't a word you normally think of to describe "The Nutcracker," that classic holiday tale of a girl and her dreamlike adventur...

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Alexei Ratmansky's Disturbingly Revisionist The Bright Stream Delights Ballet World

Debra Levine | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: Joan Acocella, Dimitri Shostakovich, American Ballet Theatre, Alexei Ratmansky, The Bright Stream, American Ballet Theater, Stalin, George Chakiris, The Bright Stream Ballet, Ballet, Arts News
Debra Levine

Despite best efforts, California authorities (the people who brought you Ronald "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!" Reagan) could not put the kibosh on American Ballet Theatre's The Bright Stream.

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What Is Wrong With the Arts?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yo-Yo Ma, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Alexei Ratmansky, Arthur Rubinstein, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Arts Management, Vladimir Horowitz, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Arts, Richard Rodgers, Igor Stravinsky, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

The arts are in a parlous state, but contrary to popular belief, it isn't the fault of unions or the absence of arts education in our schools. The arts are in trouble because there is simply not enough excellent art being created.

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Culture Zohn: The Architecture of Dance Festival Begins at New York City Ballet

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sara Mearns, Jenifer Ringer, Architecture of Dance, Olga Picasso, Wendy Whelan, Jerome Robbins, Robert Fairchaild, Alexei Ratmansky, New York City Ballet, Nijinsky, Santiago Calatrava, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2010-05-03-outsidepull.jpg It's no wonder Alexei Ratmansky is in such great demand. He is the real deal, making his own dance architecture out of thin air.

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Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: Misha (That's Baryshnikov) Mixes It Up

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baryshniikov Arts Center, Philippe Petit, George Balanchine, Sex and the City, Hugh Jackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jerome Robbins, Wooster Group, Alexei Ratmansky, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Broad Stage, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2009-09-04-misha.jpg The U.S. leg of Misha Baryshnikov's sold out European tour alights at the multi-purpose, multi-praised Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

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Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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Bless This House

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leos Janacek, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tyler Angle, Ballet, Michelle Williams, Bruno Moretti, Alexei Ratmansky, Salzburg Festival, Brussels Opera House La Monnaie, The Rake?S Progress, W. H. Auden, Robert Wilson, Ashley Bouder, Paris Opera, Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Gérard Mortier, Opera, George Balanchine, Charles Wuorinen, Peter Martins, Film, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Gelb, Rudolph Bing, Goeran Gentele, The Markopulos Case, Pierre Boulez, Mauro Bigonzetti, Brokeback Mountain, Metropolitan Opera House, Pelléas Et Mélisande, Einstein on the Beach, Wendy Whelan, Death in Venice, Heath Ledger, Gesamtkunstwerk, Debussy, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera, is dark as it undergoes a year of renovation. It is a house of past and perhaps future artistic importance in two art forms.

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Is Ballet Dead? Never! New York City Ballet Presents an Enticing Evening of New Work

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: River of Light, Ballet, Rococo Variations, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Gonzalo Garcia, Mauro Bigonzetti, Maria Kowroski, Benjamin Millepied, Ashley Bouder, Contemporary Ballet, Wendy Whelan, Concerto DSCH, New York City Ballet, Joaquin De Luz, Oltremare, Dancers, Nycb, Ballerina, Dance, Theater Review, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

I had a wonderful night at New York City Ballet the other night. The program, titled "Here and Now", focused on some of the company's newest works, and was kind of a celebration of the future, of 21st Century ballet.

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