Ballet grows up: The Australian Ballet’s bold new era with Nijinsky
Jake Mangakahia is another dancer revisiting the role of Vaslav Nijinsky. “It really changed my career. For any dancer, a ...
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For Black Ballerinas, Painting Ballet Slippers Is a Tedious But Essential Ritual
While our 3-year-old girls practiced their gummy plies to ... “It’s about ensuring the art of ballet, in all its forms, celebrates every dancer’s story and shade.” Expanding the aesthetic ...
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SF Ballet’s Manon is a provocative tale as old as time
Manon’s production was undoubtedly stunning, like an animate Degas painting on loan from London’s Royal Ballet. The San Francisco opening boasted the original costumes from the ballet’s ...
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For Every Sylph, There Is a Witch Waiting in the Wings
As the setting brightens, that shape turns into a woman, Beatrice Cordua, an 83-year-old ballet ... the art of discipline and training, and the illusion of ephemerality in ballet.