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All posts tagged "contemporary ballet"
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454ReviewsMaking the best of constraints and challenges: Newport Dance Festival 2021
The lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 20-25, 2021. As was the case with most dance events last year,...
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384ReviewsRevealing the people behind the artists: ALMA NYC’s ‘PLACES: A Look Behind the Curtain’
July 27, 2021.Streaming on YouTube. Sirens blaring, the streets eerily empty, the smell of hand sanitizer and disinfectant in the air, the...
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547Feature ArticlesSheep Meadow Dance Theatre presents ‘SEASON III: Sleeping Beauty’
After the success of its second season, NYC-based Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre (SMDT) will present another original full-length evening of dance, SEASON III:...
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862Top StoriesIsland Moving Company announces silent auction
Island Moving Company (IMC), Newport, Rhode Island’s resident contemporary ballet company, announced the addition of a silent auction as part of its...
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2.1KReviewsConcert dance living on, online with Island Moving Company’s ‘Great Dance in Great Places’
Newport, Rhode Island’s premier contemporary ballet company, Island Moving Company (IMC), has always been inventive and resourceful; without a consistent “home-base” theater;...
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1.6KReviewsBallet Nepantla melds Mexican history with outstanding artistry in ‘Valentina’
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.March 13, 2020. Ballet Nepantla Artistic Director Andrea Guajardo describes Valentina as telling “the untold history of the Adelitas,...
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2.3KInterviewsComplexions’ Candy Tong: Dancer, model, entrepreneur
Complexions is one of the premier contemporary ballet companies in the world. Founded by Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden in 1994, Complexions...
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4.6KFeature ArticlesMovement Headquarters Ballet Company aims to #BringBalletBack
Movement Headquarters Ballet Company, based in New York, is making its debut on February 16, at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater. Artistic Director Barry Kerollis has focused the company’s first year...
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2.0KFeature ArticlesComplexions Contemporary Ballet celebrates 25 years
Complexions Contemporary Ballet celebrated its 25th anniversary during its recent Joyce Theater run, which culminated last month. The company, led by Dwight Rhoden and...
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2.7KFeature ArticlesChoreographing on big ideas with Diana Movius of Moveius Contemporary Ballet
There are some things out there in the world that affect us all – the wider economy, climate and weather, large-scale shifts...
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4.0KFeature ArticlesBallet BC at work: Dancing through collaboration and conversation
Emily Molnar, artistic director of Ballet BC, has had a vision for the Canadian company since she took over its leadership in...
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7.3KFeature ArticlesArch Contemporary Ballet: Turning Tradition Topsy-Turvy
In the dance world, every so often there’s a company that truly breaks the mold – but isn’t out for the fame...
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5.1KReviewsArch Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Château’: Intriguing Unions
Davenport Theatre, New York City. Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Western concert dance has long lived in a tension between two poles. On...
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6.7KInterviewsComplexions Contemporary Ballet chooses Atlanta
Update on the Company’s move ahead of 21st anniversary In July, Complexions Contemporary Ballet announced that it would be moving 870 miles...
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22.9K3InterviewsWhat I’ve learned from Formula 1 Racers: Ballerina Dusty Button
By Allison Gupton of Dance Informa. She’s not just her multiple pirouettes. She’s not just her gorgeous lines. Dusty Button, principal dancer...
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8.1K1Feature ArticlesTen years later, Helen Pickett on Choreographic Process
By Chelsea Thomas of Dance Informa. This year ushers in an exciting anniversary for one of the hottest and most influential female...
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4.8KFeature ArticlesBudding, Not Yet Blooming: The People Movers
By Tara Sheena of Dance Informa. Kate Ladenheim is an eager redhead with some big views on dance. She started her company,...
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4.3KInterviewsSYTYCD: Behind the Scenes with Jourdan Epstein
By Laura Di Orio of Dance Informa Thousands of dancers around the country audition for one of America’s hottest television shows, So...
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8.7KFeature ArticlesDwight Rhoden – looking back and leaping forward
By Chelsea Thomas. At 17 years old, Ohio native Dwight Rhoden was playing the clarinet, flute and drums in his high school’s...
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5.7KReviews - USAAtlanta Ballet – Carmina Burana
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta GA April 12, 2013 By Deborah Searle. In their second to last program of the season,...
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3.8KReviews - USALight/The Holocaust & Humanity Project
Colorado Ballet Brings Stephen Mills’s Story of Survival to Denver University of Denver, Denver, CO March 29 2013 By Jane Elliot. On...
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4.3KReviews - USAAtlanta Ballet – New Choreographic Voices
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta, GA Saturday, March 23 2013 By Deborah Searle. Atlanta Ballet’s New Choreographic Voices was a showcase...
