"When Judith Jamison retires next year as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, she will leave a company whose worldwide popularity is rivaled only by the magnificence of its dancing, now at its historic best."
"It tells us plenty about Mr. Taylor that at the time of the 2009 premiere of “Also Playing” (then called “Now Playing”), he said, in a public interview with Ms. Carbonneau, that his incentive came from the current economic climate and his awareness of how escapism had flourished in the popular entertainment of the Great Depression. "
"When we chatted with Zivolich recently at the ODC Dance Commons, the troupe had just returned from a four-week, four-nation State Department tour of Southeast Asia..."
"In this sequence of pictures below, taken by Erik Tomasson, you can see first-hand, how Richard has transformed me into the Charlatan, a very old, but dangerous man."
"Obviously, there's been a huge turnaround in popularity and success (in U.S. ice dancing)," says White, a former hockey player with a head full of blond curls."
“Swan Lake,” at least the New York City Ballet way, is not a tale for those who relish happy endings, or even ambiguously happy endings. You won’t find such nonsense at this lakeside view."
"Very few ballet makers today create movement that is as completely dancy as Christopher Wheeldon does. “Ghosts,” his new creation for San Francisco Ballet, abounds in the felicities that for nine years have placed this still young choreographer in high national and international demand."
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