It was Super Bowl week in San Francisco. Amid the hoopla preceding Sunday’s faceoff between godlike quarterbacks Cam Newton and Peyton Manning, George Balanchine’s Apollo appeared on the stage of Walnut Creek’s Del Valle Theatre to trace the making of a supreme athlete.…
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Before New York City Ballet sprang five world premières on its discriminating public this season – four of them by young male choreographers – it lured us into lush, familiar spaces with Peter Martins’ full-length Swan Lake and a double bill pairing Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3…
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Ballet to the People leads a vagabond life these days, living out of a suitcase, at the mercy of incompetent airlines and humourless customs officials. Few cities do a worse job of welcoming visitors than New York: from landing at JFK to the ride in to Manhattan, the experience is …
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The twin allure of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden and Pina Bausch at Sadler’s Wells was irresistible. So Ballet to the People ordered some fine spring weather and hopped across the pond.…
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Installed at the Kennedy Center right when the cherry blossoms were at their cockiest, New York City Ballet bowed to its glorious past and flaunted its protean present in two dazzling programs.…
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