Alastair Macaulay’s editor must have asked him to think of SOMETHING that would boost readership of The New York Times’ increasingly staid Sunday Arts & Leisure section so he wrote about NAKED BALLET.
But even my Level 1 students could tell you the reason why we don’t dance naked is …
Our new adagio starts tonight at City Dance Studios 10 Colton St 7 pm. Music is a slow waltz for all those Metallica fans.
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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.…
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 …