By Rebecca Karpus Historical dance works are not nearly as accessible as paintings and music from the past, which are reasonably easy to access through art galleries, inexpensive reproductions, sheet music, and audio files. Beyond the rare film record and fleeting remounts onstage, where does dance of the past live? How do dancers and audiences
By Didi Hoffman Blame it on the Bacchanale. Or rather, celebrate the Bacchanale, danced by the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, whose performance inspired a young American sculptor, Malvina Hoffman, to spend years creating a magnificent frieze of this iconic duet. Hoffman would go on to become “one of the few women to reach first
By Jenn Edwards Gauthier Dance, the resident dance company of Theaterhaus Stuttgart in Germany, has reimagined one of the most recognizable images in classical ballet in a collection of neoclassical and contemporary dance solos released online. The Dying Swans Project is an eclectic mix of fresh dances for the camera, all paying homage to Mikhail