Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Wheeldon’
Monday, September 21st, 2015
Two mid-size ballet companies in North America are in search of artistic directors. Gradimir Pankov is leaving his post at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens of Montreal after 15 years. John McFall is departing Atlanta Ballet after 20 years. In comparison to the majority of the 140-odd ballet troupes across the North American continent, which have minimal seasons and only a handful of dancers, Les Grands and Atlanta employ between 20 and 30 dancers and commission in-demand choreographers for their seasons and tours. So, what is required to helm a ballet company?
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Tags: American Ballet Theatre, Angel Corella, Atlanta Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Gradimir Pankov, Jerome Robbins, John Cranko, John McFall, José Manuel Carreño, Les Ballets Grands Canadiens, Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet, Morphoses, New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Rachel Straus, San Jose Cleveland Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Silicon Vallet Ballet
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Saturday, October 4th, 2014
The blogosphere is alive with news about the current forays of New York City ballet principal dancers Robert Fairchild, Megan Fairchild, and Tyler Peck into Broadway.
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Tags: An American in Paris, Andrew Veyette, Broadway, Christopher Wheeldon, Edgar Degas, Fancy Free, George Balanchine, Jack Cole, Jerome Robbins, kennedy center, Little Dance, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, marie van Goethem, Megan Fairchild, New York City Ballet, NY Export: Opus Jazz, On The Town, Rachel Straus, Robert Fairchild, Susan Stroman, Tyler Peck
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
The seventh annual Fall For Dance Festival came to a meaty close on October 13. Program five at New York’s City Center trafficked in high testosterone, thanks to China’s LPD-Laboratory Dance Project’s No Comment (2002) and Yaron Lifschitz’s Circa (2009), which is also the name of the Australian acrobatic troupe. In both works the body was treated like a battering ram.
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Tags: Blakeley White-Mcguire, Charles Wuorinen, Christopher Wheeldon, Chronicle, Circa, Craig Hall, Deseo Y Conciencia, Evel Knievel, Fall for Dance Festival, Fang Yi-Sheu, Five Movements Three Repeats, Fortune, LPD-Laboratory Dance Project, Maria Pages, Martha Graham, Max Richter, Memoryhouse, Merce Cunningham, No Comment, Otis Clyde, Pam Tamowitz, Stanford Makishi, The Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Daylight, The Juilliard School, Tyler Angle, Wendy Whelan, Yaron Lifschitz
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Another event that featured music as much as dance was the September 17 Alice Tully Hall performance of the Simón Bolivar National Youth Choir and the José Limón Dance Company. The highlight of the one-night only occasion, celebrating Venezuala’s El Sistema, was Missa Brevis.
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Tags: Alexei Ratmansky, Alice Tully, Apollon Musagète, Ashley Bouder, Chinese Zodiac, Christopher Wheeldon, Doris Humphrey, El Sistema, Ellen Bar, Enjoy Your Rabbit, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Gabriela Poler-Buzali, George Balanchine, Guggenheim Museum, Igor Stravinsky, Jose Limon, Justin Peck, Kathryn Alter, Limon Dance Company, Michael Atkinson, Missa Brevis, Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet, Peter B. Lewis Theater, Peters Martins, Simon Bolivar National Youth Choir, Sufjan Stevens, Tiler Peck, Work & Process, Year of the Rabbit, Zoltan Kodaly
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
New York City Ballet’s new staging of “The Seven Deadly Sins ,” which had its premiere at the company’s spring gala on May 11, puts Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s dark, sinister “ballet chanté” of 1933 into a new context: a tinsel-town soundstage, complete with unison hoofers in the grand finale. Choreographer Lynn Taylor-Corbett, whose credits include Broadway’s “Swing,” has essentially created a Cliff Notes version of this irony-laced yarn, dragging principal dancer Wendy Whelan and guest artist Patti Lapone through seven shallow scenes of human transgression and stripping the work of its brooding soul.
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Tags: After the Rain, Allegra Kent, Balanchine, Beowulf Boritt, Bertolt Brecht, Chester Kallman, Christopher Wheeldon, Clotilde Otranto, Deborah Jowitt, Elia Kazan, Jason Kantrowitz, John Martin, Karinska, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Lynn Taylor-Corbett, Marlon Brando, New York City Ballet, Patty Lapone, Peter Martins, Street Car Named Desire, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The Seven Deadly Sins, Tilly Losch, Vienna Waltzes, W.H. Auden, Wendy Whelan
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
By Rachel Straus May 1-2 Guggenheim Museum The popular Works + Process series presents “American Ballet Theatre on to Act II.” Current ABT dancers will perform excerpts from their upcoming Metropolitan Opera House season. ABT alumni will discuss the challenges dancers face in the second act of their careers. You can watch the event each […]
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Tags: 92nd St. Y, Alexei Ratmansky, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Andrew Nemr, Antony Tudor, Apollo Theater, BAC Flicks, Balanchine, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Benjamin Millepied, Bharata Natyam, Camille A. Brown, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Charles Atlas, Christopher Wheeldon, Dances Patrelle, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Gilbert & Sullivan, Guggenheim Museum, Gus Solomons, Joyce Theater, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Marshall Davis, Mats Ek, Mondays with Merce, Movement Research, Nancy Dalva, New York City Ballet, New York City Dance Parade, Odissi, Patti Lupone, Pedro Ruiz, Rafael Bonachela, Sakshi Productions, Sydney Dance Company, Trisha Brown, Wendy Whelan, “Giselle, “Lady of the Camellias, ” Dakshina Company, ” “Cinderella, ” “Coppelia, ” “Don Quixote, ” “Swan Lake, ” “The Sleeping Beauty
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