Nacho Duato’s baffling and beautiful Por Vos Muero, little known in the United States, kicked off Oregon Ballet Theatre’s first season under its new artistic director, Kevin Irving. Por Vos Muero (translated, I Would Die for Thee) draws us into a kooky, time-bending world, and Ballet …
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Ballet to the People has been humming bits of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring ever since she first encountered it in her impressionable teens. It stuck in her head, along with the Led Zeppelin anthems. So when the lights went up on Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart’s economically titled A …
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Classical ballet has always been an art of belief. It does not fare well in cynical times. – Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels (2010)
In 2010, Jennifer Homans wrote a searing eulogy for ballet, in the final chapter of Apollo’s Angels, her brilliant, meticulous history of the art form. …
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The inimitable Daria is heading into the studio to record her next album The Off White Album – Songs by the Beatles composed of her unique spins on Beatles’ classics that blend Jazz, Brazilian and World rhythms.
Check out a brilliant sample here
Her earlier recordings of covers and original …
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Ballet to the People brought an honest-to-God Texas cowboy to meet Dear Miss Cline at Smuin Ballet, and he was smitten. Not just with the sassy country girls and their affable boyfriends in Amy Seiwert’s lighthearted but sophisticated romp, but also with the angst-filled work by Jiří Kylián and Michael …
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