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Shots from RNZB’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
According to Jack Yan who writes for Lucire, the Royal New Zealand Ballet's new production by Liam Scarlett is "jaw-droppingly magnificent" and "witty yet respectful." Respectful is always nice to hear. Like previous choreographers,…
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Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance 2016 season
at Lincoln Center is going to be pretty exciting and will further clarify Mr. Taylor's vision and mission for his new organization. The season will run from March 16 through April 3 and will…
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Everyone has a dream
In a day and a half, the Royal New Zealand Ballet will premiere Liam Scarlett's brand new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Wellington. Tonia Looker will dance the role of Titania and will…
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Garage ballet
For every garage band that turned into Tommy James & the Shondells or Question Mark & the Mysterians, there were thousands of bands that never found their crystal blue persuasion in the rock music…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Ballet School – Chicago”
There's news from the Washington Post that a 2500 word manuscript of an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been found by Andrew Gulli among the Fitzgerald archives at Princeton. Though only 2500…
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observations 8-12
Here's a lovely NBC News online piece about our Stella Abrera. She talks about how she was a complete bunhead at an early age, injuries, and achieving principal designation at a late age. Haglund…