16 FEBRUARY 2016
1 FEBRUARY 2016
How Not to Behave at the Ballet
An irate balletomane wrote in to complain. Will the ill-mannered Kennedy Center patrons in question have the grace to apologize to her?
Last Friday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, American Ballet Theater’s Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful affair. Only a week before, a snow storm of historic …
16 JANUARY 2016
The utmost beauty of Wayne McGregor’s Atomos
San Franciscans are partial to art that advertises itself as high-tech, and Wayne McGregor’s Atomos certainly fits that bill – with film clips designed to be viewed with 3D glasses, and costumes (referred to as “interventions”) designed from masses of parametric data produced by sensors stuck to the dancers’ bodies.…
12 JANUARY 2016
Indian Summer in Manhattan
With just a few days to make the most of Indian summer in New York City, Ballet to the People was tempted to spend every sunshiny day sizing up the buskers in Central Park, remodeling Olafur Eliasson’s white Lego installation on the High Line, and cheering on the Mets …
21 DECEMBER 2015
Can We Kiss those Fouettés Goodbye?
Last week, in The New York Times survey of “the best of dance” in 2015, Gia Kourlas saluted Misty Copeland, dubbing her “ballet’s new Billy Elliot,” but called her out on her fouetté turns, saying “she needs to fix them.”…