By Robert Greskovic By mid-April, with the COVID pandemic seemingly in the rear-view mirror and the Passover and Easter holidays over, New York City’s dance calendar felt like a burgeoning rite of spring. In one week, New York City Ballet, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Dance Theatre of Harlem competed nightly for audiences. The
By Jeannette Andersen Munich’s Bayerisches Staatsballett recently offered a rare glimpse into some of the more practical details around putting a ballet on stage in a big opera house. Instead of their annual joint press conference with the opera at the theatre itself, they hosted a visit at the set building workshops located half-an-hour’s drive
By Victor Swoboda Displaced by war, 60 Ukrainian dancers, artists, and technicians have hastily joined a new company called United Ukrainian Ballet based in the Netherlands. “I read about the war every day, but I try to do it less often because I get too worried,” said one of the company’s ballerinas, Anastasia Mirraslavska, 26,