by Laura Cappelle | Jun 2, 2014 | Company Life
At Stuttgart Ballet, Reid Anderson embraces the traditional and the avant-garde. Name the most prominent choreographers and directors in continental Europe, and the list reads like a who’s who of Stuttgart Ballet alumni. John Neumeier, Jirí Kylián and William Forsythe...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Mar 27, 2014 | Company Life
Iain Webb is bringing international recognition to Sarasota Ballet. Iain Webb describes himself as “a total bunhead.” To prove it, he takes out his iPhone and brings up a photo of Michel Fokine’s death mask, explaining that it’s part of his personal ballet library in...
by Joseph Carman | Jan 26, 2014 | Company Life
Julio Bocca injects his experience and flair into Uruguay’s Ballet Nacional Sodre. Julio Bocca’s performances during his 20 years at American Ballet Theatre had the tangible feel of verismo. Whatever character he danced—Romeo, Albrecht, Onegin—grabbed you from the...
by Laura Cappelle | Nov 21, 2013 | Company Life
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo is Jean-Christophe Maillot’s personal playground. B ox-office pressure doesn’t seem to be part of the vocabulary at Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. For the past two decades, this maverick company devoted to the sleek neoclassical...
by Christopher Blank | Sep 24, 2013 | Company Life
Nashville Ballet’s Paul Vasterling puts narrative and music at the forefront of the company’s focus. T he dancers are fighting again, but Paul Vasterling is unfazed. He’s watching it unfold at the front of the stage, fingers to his chin like a man...
by Joseph Carman | Jul 22, 2013 | Company Life
Ethan Stiefel takes on his biggest role yet as artistic director of Royal New Zealand Ballet. I nternational ballet stars labeled “Made in America” are an endangered species. But former American Ballet Theatre principal Ethan Stiefel is one of the rare...
by Michael Crabb | May 28, 2013 | Company Life
Emily Molnar has given Ballet BC fresh life. W atching the exuberant dancing of today’s Ballet BC, you’d hardly guess that the troupe was on the brink of collapse a little more than four years ago. In 2008, dwindling audiences had compounded the...
by Christopher Blank | Mar 19, 2013 | Company Life
John McFall has made Atlanta Ballet an incubator for innovative choreography. I n John McFall’s teenage mind, nothing equaled the enchantment of ballet. He remembers being cast as a swashbuckling supernumerary in Scheherazade when Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...