By Marcie Sillman When Kent Stowell and Francia Russell arrived in Seattle in 1977 to take the reins of a five-year old ballet company, they had one big goal: “We wanted to make a company and a school that we would be proud to be part of as dancers,” Russell recalls. Forty-five years later, the
By Anne-Marie Elmby COVID-19 was already spreading around the world when, on March 6, the Danish government advised physical distancing and events with more than 1,000 people had to be cancelled or postponed. Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre, where the Royal Danish Ballet is based, continued performances with restricted admission; six days later, they cancelled everything. This