Ikolo Griffin – formerly of SF Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, and Smuin Ballet – will be teaching an intensive Turns workshop starting Feb 11th at StageDor in Sausalito: the perfect way to find your best, most constant turning style and improve your turning mechanics. For four …
23 JANUARY 2013
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery racing to the finish line
If you were one of the many who were moved by The Women Choreographers last season – or if you’re kicking yourself because you missed it – get involved now! Amy Seiwert’s Imagery has a Jan 31st deadline to meet a challenge grant of $5,000. They’re nearly there but need …
Harvard B-School tackles the business of ballet in South Africa
Students from Harvard Business School are engaged in a field immersion project in Johannesburg, finding ways to shore up the precarious finances of the South African Mzansi Ballet, which has heroically managed to stay alive without public funding for the past 12 years. While the ballet company rehearses for …
Terrorism in the ballet world
Scandal and intrigue have plagued Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet for decades. Today the ballet world was stunned to learn that Artistic Director, Sergei Filin, was attacked by a hooded individual who accosted him on the street and threw acid in his face. Filin is now in hospital with third-degree burns, …
31 DECEMBER 2012
2012: The Year of the Aging Ballerina?
Looking back over this year’s ballet reviews, B2TP was struck by the number of references to dancers who are, as Luke Jennings gracefully puts it,”in the autumn of their careers.” One of “ballet’s great poignancies,” Jennings claims, is that “the essence and truth of performance … is so often …