By Barbara Quick What Disappears, my new novel set in the world of the Ballets Russes (Regal House), had a decades-long gestation. When I started it, the story was about my maternal great-grandmother and her family, Russian Jews in Kishinev in the time of the tsars. Dance had nothing to do with that first draft,
By Steve Sucato Charlotte Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Celebration program, delayed from 2020 because of the global pandemic, was worth the wait. The final production for outgoing artistic director Hope Muir (now artistic director at the National Ballet of Canada), the program cast a wide net in terms of audience tastes, with four topflight works that
By Elaine Gaertner Vaslav Nijinsky wrote in his diary, “Applause is not opinion. Applause is a feeling of love for the artist.” The following four artists — Muriel Valtat, Andrea Boardman, Gaby Baars, and José Manuel Carreño — have felt this love, a palpable embrace from audiences around the world. Today they have abandoned the