Together with French magazine Causette, I paid a visit to Akram Khan in his Grenoble retreat last month, a week or so before the opening night of his take on the Rite of Spring, iTMOi. We talked fatherhood, Pina Bausch and multiculturalism, among other things, and I report back in the June issue: Au-delà...
Read more →Dancers have their little rituals and obsessions to get through difficult days, and Pointe talked to a few of them about their must-haves in the health department for the April/May issue. I contributed interviews with Paris Opéra dancer Allister Madin and Dutch National Ballet's Megan Zimny Gray alongside Nancy Wozny's American perspective...
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Jean-Christophe Maillot celebrates 20 years at the helm of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 2013, and after a period of uncertainty brought on by cuts in Monaco’s arts budget, the company seems to have regained its confidence. Choré, Maillot’s first abstract evening-length ballet, showed the director and choreographer in fine, ambitious form last month,...
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Meeting Ulyana Lopatkina is a daunting experience. Even as she greets you in the street in jeans, she clearly belongs in a more rarefied realm: her serious nod and striking beauty are both startling, and she wears her near-religious approach to her art on her sleeve. The most trivial questions are greeted with barely...
Read more →Nederlands Dans Theater may be a favorite with international audiences, but the financial crisis seriously threatened its very existence two years ago. The appointment of Paul Lightfootas artistic director helped overturn early recommendations, however, and the former dancer and choreographer, who has spent his entire career at NDT, is now settling into his new...
Read more →It is often the only way for a foreigner to get into the Paris Opera Ballet: start with a temporary surnuméraire contract and work in the wings for as long as it takes to land a coveted full-time position. Hannah O’Neill, who trained in Japan, New Zealand and Australia and won top prizes at...
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