By Tessa Perkins Deneault The curtain rises to reveal the silhouette of a woman atop a giant full skirt. As the lights come up, the skirt transforms into a huge orange scarf that billows above Jerome Tisserand and his partner Laura Tisserand, who is perched on his shoulders. It’s a beautiful image to punctuate the
by Malcolm Tay As an independent dance artist in Singapore, Eng Kai Er found that ambiguous intentions and unstated assumptions often hampered the experience of collaborating with other dancer-choreographers. To cope with these obstacles and rein in her own nature to be bossy, Eng says, she came up with a framework for the creative process
by Steve Sucato On an unseasonably warm afternoon last December at BalletMet’s studios in Columbus, Ohio, artistic director Edwaard Liang is teaching three male/female couples a pas de deux from his 2008 ballet Age of Innocence. Liang quickly demonstrates a series of steps, but when he sees the men having trouble with a particularly difficult