…In years past, there were many large companies willing to invest in the development of young artists with talent, but those are fast disappearing… The incubators for developing artists may be largely gone, but so are the gatekeepers, which means that anyone can create their own opportunities if they’re clever
Trashdance Triumph is the sordid yet strangely exhilarating tale of a Russian émigré to America – a former star of the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, who commandeers a ballet school in a New England backwater and struggles to adapt to peculiar American ways.…
These days, a powerful woman scorned by an equally powerful man has several options to consider, including the release of an hour-long accusatory music video in which she races through the streets smashing things with a baseball bat.…
The CubaCaribe dance festival hit Oakland on Apr. 22, 2016, a year into the Big Cuban Thaw, and barely one month after Barack Obama’s historic visit to Havana – in the aftermath of which Fidel Castro groused, “We do not need the empire to give us anything.”…
