NEW YORK — Alexandria Wailes has had a cathartic, enlightening autumn. As the Lady in Purple in “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” she finally has a part that reflects her just the way she is: deaf, mixed race and a dancer.
NEW YORK — When Paul Taylor asked Michael Novak to take over his organization after he buzzed off — that was the way Taylor put it — both knew what a challenge the job would be.
NEW YORK — One of the pleasures of a life filled with dance is the way, at the end of the day, a performance can force the mind to change course, to quiet down. William Forsythe’s program at the Shed, “A Quiet Evening of Dance,” which opened Friday, takes that to another level.
NEW YORK — Misty Copeland inched toward the front of the stage with her powerful back leading the way. It wasn’t the only time that Copeland, one of ballet’s brightest stars, showed her fans a different side of herself in “Ash,” a new solo by Kyle Abraham. But it set the tone.
MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Choreographer Elizabeth Streb has found herself in foreign territory. First, she is collaborating, which is not her usual way of making art. And in teaming up with Anne Bogart, a director of the theater group SITI Company, she has something else to contend with: words.
Lara Spencer apologized for comments she made last week about boys who dance ballet in an extended segment Monday on “Good Morning America,” during which she acknowledged that her remarks had been insensitive and said that she had learned from them.
When the Vail International Dance Festival proposed to Alonzo King that he choreograph a new work featuring four members of his San Francisco company, Lines Ballet, and four from New York City Ballet, he knew just what he needed: a partner.
For Bolle, it was also a full-circle moment. His first performance with Ballet Theater was in “Manon,” in 2007, at the instigation of Alessandra Ferri (who chose him as her partner for her farewell in “Romeo and Juliet”).
Roman Mejia, a rising member of the corps de ballet, is more ebullient: He has a smile that spreads to his eyes, and while his Puck had little of the elegant etherealness of Stanley’s, his glee was contagious.
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