Ballet to the People sits in on a rehearsal of The Women Choreographers for the Huffington Post…
Dancing with robots
Watch excerpts from Monica Mason’s riveting farewell commission for the Royal Ballet, an inspired collaboration by leading-edge artists, musicians and choreographers including Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor, Kim Brandstrup, Nico Muhly, Alistair Marriott, Mark Anthony Turnage, Liam Scarlett, Jonathan Dove, William Tuckett, Jonathan Watkins, Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross, Mark Wallinger.…
Is the future of ballet permanently in the red?
The painful saga of Edward Villella’s firing from Miami City Ballet seems to suggest that ballet companies are fundamentally uneconomic propositions: to build a strong company with great artistic vision, as Villella has done, costs so much that ticket sales, ballet school revenues, public grants, and other traditional sources of …
Children at the Ballet? God forbid…
My Twitter exchange with a grumpy James Wolcott after the 4th of July matinée of ABT’s magnificent ‘Le Corsaire’:…