Friday, August 12, 2016
How Diana Movius turned a smelly, dusty former theater into D.C.’s Dance Loft on 14.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
One step at a time, in solemn synchrony, the casket team carried the coffin up the grassy hill on Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery. Harry Ostro, the beloved Brooklyn high school footba…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:24PMFriday, August 21, 2015
“Everything has been pleasant for me. So I’m thankful. And hopeful.” With those words, and a big, toothy smile, former President Jimmy Carter, 90, ended his press conference Thursday. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:24PMFriday, August 7, 2015
“I paint flowers so they will not die,” wrote Frida Kahlo. She painted them for other reasons, too, as you can see in a show at the New York Botanical Garden: “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:44PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Beauty vloggers, PewDiePie: Make room. Supermodel Karlie Kloss is now a YouTuber, and if her 2.9 million Instagram followers are any indication, Klossy—as her channel is called—could lau…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
What does Michaela DePrince have left to conquer? As a 4-year-old orphan in Sierra Leone, the thought of being adopted made her physically sick, but she overcame her fear to enjoy a loving f…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:34PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Beauty is a strength and a weakness in “The Peony Pavilion,” an ode to the delirium of love, danced by the National Ballet of China at Wolf Trap on Tuesday night. The two-hour production…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:44PMFriday, July 10, 2015
Misty Copeland is having a Beyoncé kind of moment. But does the media attention she has whipped up have anything to do with her art?Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
It has a musical ring to it: Misty makes history. Indeed, with bad news pressing in on so many fronts, the just-announced promotion of Misty Copeland to principal status at American Ballet T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:05PMFriday, June 26, 2015
“This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace,” said President Obama today, just before he broke into song at the funeral for South Carolina State Sen. Clementa Pinckney…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:18PMThe pleasures of improv proved the saving grace of Chamber Dance Project, a plucky pickup group in performance through the weekend at the Lansburgh Theatre. While the dancers hail from vario…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:00PMThursday, June 25, 2015
A bird thought the empty orchestra pit at Wolf Trap would be a nice place to rest on Wednesday night, but it was mistaken. As soon as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago stomped out the vigorous op…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:07PMWednesday, June 24, 2015
The surreal, yellow post-storm sky over the Kennedy Center Tuesday night, glimpsed at intermission, felt like an extension of the ballet atmosphere in the Eisenhower Theater. There, the Poli…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:58PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
The New York City Ballet is reeling from the untimely death of one of its stars: Albert Evans, 46, a retired principal dancer and a current ballet master. Evans, tall and dignified with a pl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:45PMFriday, June 19, 2015
The Polish National Ballet is making its Washington debut this week, but its neoclassical style may look familiar to longtime dancegoers. Its artistic director, Krzysztof Pastor, was a resid…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:52PMThursday, June 18, 2015
“All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love,” wrote Isadora Duncan. The revolutionary’s romanticism was on view in “Body/Soul,” a program by Word…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMSunday, June 14, 2015
“All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is love,” wrote Isadora Duncan. The revolutionary’s romanticism was on view in “Body/Soul,” a program by Word Da…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PMFriday, June 12, 2015
If you can’t make it to New York this month to watch the Italian star Roberto Bolle dance with American Ballet Theatre, you can see plenty of him in a coffee-table photo book, “Roberto B…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:50PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Lovers’ attempts to thwart parental disapproval is old news in the theater, from “Romeo and Juliet” to “Fiddler on the Roof.” The ballet “Don Quixote” tells that story, too. So…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:13PMMonday, June 8, 2015
When Christopher Wheeldon launched his small, short-lived ballet company in 2007, the idea was to make ballet accessible to a wide audience. Every part of it was designed for maximum audienc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMFriday, June 5, 2015
Summer turns us toward whatever is cool, light and airy. Dance floats to the fore as humanity’s palliative to heat and heaviness. Just as dancers seem to defy gravity, you may well fly alo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:11PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
NEW YORK—A kosher chef brings his guitar to the podium and strums it as he belts out a two-minute pitch for his new cookbook. The author of a memoir called “The Mental Yentl” tells r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:41AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
Rodin had a love life to match the tremendous energy of his sculptures. In “Rodin,” the Eifman Ballet’s vigorous work about the well-favored artist, imagined passions are channeled int…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Quiet stillness can be more powerful than action on the stage. But in a ballet, it takes a good deal of wisdom and trust to rein in the dancing.This was the distinguishing feature of the Sco…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:21PMTuesday, May 26, 2015
By the time his biggest dance moment arrives, in the dizzying final scene of Broadway’s “An American in Paris,” Robert Fairchild is pretty drained.“That ballet comes at end of the sh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:52AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Bill T. Jones is no shrinking violet in his choreography or at home in Valley Cottage, N.Y. He'll accept the Kennedy Center award for individualists everywhere.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMIn the words of Oscar Hammerstein, there is nothing like a dame. (And who am I to argue?) But enough about brains. Let's talk legs. As far as the dancing in his musicals goes, it's the guys who carry the show.<...
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMIt was a big night: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual fundraising gala at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday. She wore a big outfit: Artistic Director Judith Jamison, bald head glis…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM"I've got enough nerve to do anything!" - Ginger Rogers in "Swing Time" "Swing Time," the sixth film that Ginger Rogers made with Fred Astaire, spins the workaday world of a gambler and a da…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM"I've got enough nerve to do anything!" - Ginger Rogers in "Swing Time" "Swing Time," the sixth film that Ginger Rogers made with Fred Astaire, spins the workaday world of a gambler and a da…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM 
