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Susan Jaffe Will Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater

Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theater ballerinaWhen Kevin McKenzie steps down at the end of 2022 after a 30-year tenure, he will become the company’s artistic director, the company announced Monday. Jaffe, 59, has been artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater since July 2020, and will become the seventh director to lead the …

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Susan Jaffe Will Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater

Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theater ballerinaWhen Kevin McKenzie steps down at the end of 2022 after a 30-year tenure, he will become the company’s artistic director, the company announced Monday. Jaffe, 59, has been artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater since July 2020, and will become the seventh director to lead the …

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Review: Ghosts Crawls Over A New Collaboration In City Ballet

It’s hard to digest the latest premiere of New York City Ballet without knowing the story behind it. Indirectly, it’s a story ballet, but not the kind where a princess falls asleep after a needle prick. “Architects of the Time”, a collaboration between choreographer Silas Farley and composer David K. Israel, a back story ballet. …

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New York Ballet Celebrates Stravinsky

Jean-Pierre Frohlich, ballet at unity “I was enchanted,” said Frohlich, who was a 17-year-old company apprentice during the festival. “I’ve never experienced anything like this energy, this creativity and this much work.” Running between studios, learning multiple ballet pieces, “because they needed bodies,” she realized that Robbins was choreographing in the hallway because there weren’t …

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Review: Bending the Rituals and Codes of Form in City Ballet

Strange tensions build as more dancers arrive, including the gorgeous Miriam Miller, who takes on some sort of conductor or trainer role. Attractive costumes for Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung’s 10-person cast in Easter egg colors evoke spring, joy; The music is more mixed, disturbing, heightened by the excellent lighting by Brandon Stirling Baker. Sometimes, …

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Russia’s Story Ballet Among the Lost in the War

Mr Hallberg said Ms. Smirnova was “very brave” to leave the Bolshoi because she was leaving not just a company but an institution “which is in her DNA”. Miss Smirnova isn’t the only high-profile artist to leave Russia. On the day the war began, Alexei Ratmansky, the ballet’s leading choreographer and former Bolshoi artistic director, …

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William G. Hamilton, Doctor of New York’s Ballet Dancers, Dies at 90

For more than 40 years as an orthopedic surgeon for the New York City Ballet, he has treated bony spurs, tendonitis, bursitis, torn ligaments, and “Nutcracker Crumbs”died at his home in Croton-on-Hudson, NY on March 29. He was 90 years old. His wife, Linda Hamilton, said the cause was congestive heart failure. Ballet dancers may …

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Consent to Ballet, One-Time Intimacy Workshop

GLASGOW — The intensity of the choreography left visible marks on Bethany Kingsley-Garner’s body. He was passing through a harrowing scene in the movie recently, an afternoon spent at Scottish Ballet’s Glasgow studios. Kenneth MacMillan’s 1978 ballet “MayerlingHer character, Stephanie, is violently attacked by her husband, Crown Prince Rudolf, on their wedding night. As he …

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