Monday, May 25, 2015
"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 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
When the Scottish Ballet took its production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” to New Orleans in 2013, the audience reacted to Blanche DuBois in toe shoes and a dancing Stanley Kowalski with…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMWhen the Scottish Ballet took its production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” to New Orleans in 2013, the audience reacted to Blanche DuBois in toe shoes and a dancing Stanley Kowalski with…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:12AMFriday, May 15, 2015
More than one of the dances in the Washington Ballet’s program of excerpts required the ballerina to bang a tambourine.Sadly, none called for her to stomp on it.At times during Thursday’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:31AMFilm director Spike Lee, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and bestselling author and New York Times columnist David Brooks will be among the participants in an arts summit at the Kenned…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:10AMFriday, May 8, 2015
“Right as I was about to jump off the Millennium Bridge,” says a young blond woman with beefy arms, “Elizabeth Streb looked in my eyes and she said, ‘Wreak havoc!’ ”The moment w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PMThe Washington Ballet’s “Alice (in Wonderland)” plunges you into a land of wonders, all right. It is quite a place, and its name really shouldn’t be squished in between parentheses. …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00AMThursday, May 7, 2015
Leanne Cope, the Tony-nominated star of “An American in Paris” on Broadway, never saw herself as musical theater actress. “I thought maybe once I’d retired I’d join an amateur dram…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:27PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
To mark its 10th anniversary, YouTube has released a playlist of some of the site’s most popular dance videos from the past decade.Are you ready for an archeological dig of your meandering…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:20PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
must confess: I am probably the rudest person at any dance performance I attend. Critics can be odd seatmates. We slip in at the last minute; we’re too busy scribbling notes to applaud; we…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:57PMFloyd Mayweather is favored to beat Manny Pacquiao in Saturday’s much-hyped welterweight title fight in Las Vegas. Mayweather’s record is 47 wins, no losses. But that doesn’t take into…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:15AMSunday, April 26, 2015
The hip-hop dancers of Rennie Harris RHAW could spin on their hands and twirl upside down until their legs blurred. Upper-body strength was not their issue. Still, metaphorically at least, t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:43PMFriday, April 24, 2015
Growing up in Poland, Anya Cole learned to knit at 9. It became a passion, second only to dancing. Even after she became a professional ballet dancer, she made her own sweaters and legwarmer…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:50PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
I love it when an artist shows me the beauty in the everyday. That’s what I saw when I wandered into the Bjork exhibit recently at the Museum of Modern Art and encountered her music video …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:43PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
If you could bottle and dispense what billowed forth in the Urban Bush Women’s performance Friday, we’d have no talk of an energy crisis, no lackadaisical millennials, no disaffected vot…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:14PMThursday, April 16, 2015
Yet another gem has been added to Misty Copeland’s weighty crown of celebrity: the ballerina is one of the 2015 Time 100, a list of the most influential people in the world according to Ti…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:56PMFriday, April 10, 2015
The first time Misty Copeland leapt onto the stage Thursday in the Washington Ballet’s production of “Swan Lake,” you would have thought she had just whacked a grand slam across the Po…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:14PMWhen Christopher Wheeldon was growing up in England, the only child of parents involved in amateur theater, he amused himself by building stage sets in his bedroom. The one he liked best was…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:48PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Powerhouse. That’s the word that came to mind after I saw New York City Ballet’s program of 21st-century works at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Wednesday night. Personality, warmth, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Diversity is the theme of the Washington Ballet’s 2015-2016 season, in more ways than one. It will include world premieres by Edwaard Liang and the Italian choreographer Mauro de Candio; a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:42PMAsked about George Balanchine’s ultra-modern ballet “Agon,” Arthur Mitchell once said, “It’s not so much the difficulty of the steps or how flexible you are, it’s the precariousn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:49PMSunday, March 29, 2015
It wasn’t the way she had planned it, but ballerina Julie Kent was treated to an affectionate farewell on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage Saturday night even though she hadn’t dance…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:02PMFriday, March 27, 2015
One of the happiest, most uplifting and imaginative dance productions will air on PBS’s “Great Performances” at 9 p.m. tonight: Mark Morris’ “L”Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Modera…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:25PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a conductor plant a hearty kiss on a ballerina’s cheek before, but that’s what happened Tuesday night on the Opera House stage, at the opening performanc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:20PMFriday, March 20, 2015
When American Ballet Theatre performs at the Kennedy Center this week audiences will see a company undergoing one of the most notable transitions in its 75-year history. Three of its biggest…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:50PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
The simplest moments of Sara Baras’s “Voces, Suite Flamenca” were the best. These were the segments of her 90-minute show that were not slashed by blinding spotlights, or jolted by sel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:42AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Ballet star Jose Manuel Carreno has often played the role of the hero onstage. But his princely charisma and world-class stature may not be enough to stem the financial crisis threatening to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:57PMSunday, March 1, 2015
Philosophers and physicists can go on debating whether logic and unpredictability can coexist. Mark Morris has already answered the question.Predictably enough, the Mark Morris Dance Group�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:55PMFriday, February 27, 2015
Making a dance is a complex engineering problem. A ballet company, especially one as big and famous as the New York City Ballet, is a machine with myriad moving parts, of which the dancers a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:13AMThursday, February 26, 2015
In the land that produced it, “Swan Lake” had become a curse. “I want to pull my hair out and stuff it down the directorate’s throat!” complained Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:48AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Just as the town of Sleepy Hollow was a magical setting for Washington Irving’s classic short story, the ballet inspired by that tale boasts enchantments of its own. The Washington Ballet�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:47PM 
