Don’t deny you have had this daydream in which you imagine yourself dashing up to the stage at the Kodak Theatre in your perilously high Christian Louboutins, nervously clutching a little slip of paper. Even without the cheat sheet, we all know that we must thank the director, the screenwriter, …
Desire, Death & Destruction (or just another day in the ballet studio) – by Joie Brown
Stunning artwork from one of our multi-talented ballet students: in this triptych, Desire, Death and Destruction are 3 sisters – Desire can’t go anywhere without Death and Destruction following her. Executed in watercolors and inks.
Joie is a 26 year old San Francisco-based illustrator who is studying for a graduate …
Jennifer Homans pronounces Ballet dead… Alexei Ratmansky performs CPR
Don’t miss the ballet event of the year: the West Coast premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s The Bright Stream at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles later this week (July 14-17). Ratmansky, artistic heir to both Petipa and Balanchine, former Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre and now Artist …
Don't say your dancing days are done…
Inspirational tidbit from this hilarious 1925 handbook: “Don’t say your dancing days are done. Your dancing days are never done until you are confined to a bath chair for exercise. If you can walk to the office in the morning and play a game of golf on Sundays, there …