By Steve Sucato The Joffrey Ballet, co-founded in 1956 by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, is proudly described on the company website as “America’s Company of Firsts.” It was the first dance company to appear on American television, the first to grace the cover of Time magazine, the first to perform at the White House, and
By Marcie Sillman Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new season, opening later this month, will be the first in more than two decades without longtime principal Lesley Rausch. The ballerina was acclaimed for nuanced performances in everything from Swan Lake to Ulysses Dove’s very contemporary Red Angels. She will be missed, but Rausch’s retirement is an inflection
By Naomi Mori The National Ballet of Japan’s commission to British choreographer Will Tuckett, a one-act Shakespearean ballet titled The Tragedy of Macbeth, premiered in April at New National Theatre. The score, by the late Scottish composer Geraldine Mucha, Macbeth, had been created as ballet music but had never been used in a ballet performance.