by Dance Magazine | Jan 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
On January 17, 1920, one of American ballet’s most celebrated dance actresses was born. Nora Kaye’s father was an actor who’d worked under Konstantin Stanislavski; her earliest ballet teacher was Ballets Russes choreographer Michel Fokine. (“He...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 8, 2018 | News
This weekend features two romantic ballets right on time for Valentine’s Day, a mixed repertory program by New York Theatre Ballet including a work by Gemma Bond and plenty of Olympic figure skating featuring our favorite former dancer, Nathan Chen. Ballet West...
by Joseph Carman | Jan 7, 2018 | Career
Ballet excels at defying gravity. Lightness, ethereality, wispiness, symmetry, lineal order, chivalry and blissful endings to well-worn tales bestow on ballet a reputation as an art form that embraces divine beauty and design. But themes of grief, trauma, death, war,...
by Hannah Foster | Mar 30, 2016 | Company Life
Have you ever spent a later summer evening, with the first hints of cooler weather swishing through trees, reflecting on the memories of a season come and gone? This is precisely the mood Antony Tudor evokes in his 1975 piece, The Leaves are Fading. In this clip,...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The steps carry the meaning in Antony Tudor’s Lilac Garden, as in all of his ballets. To dance the choreography is to embody the drama. An arabesque can signify distress or hope, while a pirouette can signal desperation. Bourrées turning in place detail a...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
When I daydream about Antony Tudor, I instantly picture his signature works: Leaves Are Fading, Dark Elegies and Jardin Aux Lilas. But with successful creation comes clear instruction; something I often forget when “cooing” over great choreography....