Ballet to the People’s bow to the Mariinsky Ballet’s Swan Lake at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley (our Huffington Post review).…
'Year of the Rabbit' takes New York by storm
George Balanchine was barely 30 years old, and a new immigrant to America, when he premiered the piece that would become the signature work of New York City Ballet (here danced beautifully by Pacific Northwest Ballet). Serenade broke new ground in many ways, especially in its highlighting of the …
Stepping on the gas!
A reader challenged me yesterday to work harder to raise money for the new film about Jacques D’Amboise’s National Dance Institute, I Can Dance! As incentive (I suspect he thinks I spend my days lying around on a couch) he is offering to match-fund up to $1,000 donated by Ballet …
29 SEPTEMBER 2012
I Can Dance! Make It Happen.
Scary but true:
For the first time in history, children today are projected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. – Designedtomove.org
Be part of the solution! Contribute to the making of a new film that spotlights the National Dance Institute (NDI) – the brainchild of New York …
Why Are There So Few Black Ballerinas?
This growing firestorm on social media zigs and zags, but at the heart of the diversity issue is the question: “who are the dominant taste-makers in the ballet world today” and do they have the foresight, the will, and the $$, to fix the problem? (Check out Ballet …