| 单词 | ballerina |
| 例句 | I have a wide black elastic cinch belt with an imitation gold clasp buckle, and flat ballerina shoes of velveteen that scuff as I walk and bulge out at the sides. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She grabs his hand and spins him in a ballerina twirl, and he puts one of her roses between his teeth, and they watch Henry and grin at each other through the noise. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The dress’s skirt stuck out like a tutu, and I liked to spin around in front of the mirror, thinking I looked like a ballerina. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia froze where they stood, staring at Dudley as though he had just expressed a desire to become a ballerina. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, this is a picture of a ballerina,” she said, pointing to a word. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was thinking of the paper ballerina he loved so much, or perhaps he wasn’t thinking at all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She moved like the most elegant ballerina, like she could fly if she set her mind to it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Though I still think those ballerina costumes from Swan Lake would look lovely—” “No ballet!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z First she drew a silhouette of the old man and then his wife with her basket on her head, perched over him like a ballerina, unaware of her load. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “This word, ballerina, is an Italian word. It means ‘little dancer.’ Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Off I dashed to find my beautiful ballerina picture inside my old, dirty clothes on the bathroom floor. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes fell on the crystal ballerina statue. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Look at me, Mother. I’m five-nine and still growing. I’m not prima ballerina material.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I no longer had the picture of the ballerina, which had been such an important part of my life in Africa. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead I babbled on in Krio as I tried to explain about the ballerina and the special pink shoes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z His whistling got louder and he leapt like a ballerina. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Like alien ballerinas who danced without needing any music. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “But it’s all perfectly true. When the Germans marched into the city, I danced in the streets like a youthful ballerina and shouted, ‘HeilHitler!’ until my lungs were hoarse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The woman wears a dress something akin to a bridal gown constructed for a ballerina, white and frothy and laced with black ribbons that flutter in the night air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After my April performance, one critic wrote, “She was the sweetest seductress you ever saw...but she has yet to develop any ballerina mystique. She is only eighteen.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She moves with the grace of a trained ballerina, a detail Mme. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He held the hand of a ten-year-old Mexican ballerina and was followed by scores of men and women in the customary clothing of their native cultures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Three ballerina jewelry boxes stand open, the little dancers with their arms over their heads. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It was the way Rhonda always spoke of her dancing as if she were the most talented ballerina in the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Then, bending over like a ballerina taking a bow, she grabs hold of her ankles and pulls her head in between them. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Or the fact that Rishi was drawing it with a perfect ballerina’s bun, except the bun happened to be a croissant. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z That song and the ballerina photo were the two things that reminded me that I was still alive. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I had already memorized the choreography of the Balanchine Nutcracker, so I expected to come out of class dancing like a real ballerina. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “And remember how I wanted to be a ballerina and it drove Scott crazy because he said I couldn’t because I was a boy?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Oh yes! And I could do shoulder stands and twirl around like a ballerina and stand tall at the very top of the pyramid of all the cheerleaders.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Abby’s sitting on the ledge by the sinks, toes turned out like a ballerina, jelly flats peeking out from under her dress. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “You look like an idiot, prancin’ around like a shuck ballerina. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She does a goofy, fake ballerina leap across the room, lands on the bed, and shoulders up to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Not because I want to be a prima ballerina when I grow up, but because I intend on becoming a Broadway star someday. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Spiders hatch and crawl out of my belly button, hairy little tar beads with ballerina feet. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The gravity-defying performances of those dancers, with their impossible leaps and lifts, and ballerinas who spun ’round tirelessly, like those on the tops of music boxes—well, that sounded well worth the trouble. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It was the ringing of tiny tennis rackets against tiny snow skis, of miniature Eiffel Towers against half-inch ballerinas on point. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But questions pirouetted around Penelope’s mind faster than even the ballerinas of the Imperial Russian Ballet could have managed: Who had requested these awful stories about children and wolves? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She ran a steady race, her long ballerina legs graceful, which was ironic since she couldn't stop stepping on my toes during practice. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “You know why dogs make such lousy ballerinas?” he asks the crowd. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z No jewelry box with a ballerina in it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “The man-eating tigers, the spinning blades...But I still think a few ballerinas would be nice.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If I had the book here, she thought, I could read the story and find out, or I could try to bring the ballerina out of it for him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Turns out, not only is there a supermodel with vitiligo, there are actors and singers and politicians—even a ballerina. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Her arms are angular, her neck elegant; her hair is pulled back like a ballerina’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Pita shouted, jumping up and spinning around on the blankets like a ballerina. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “It’s how you feel about who you are that counts. Hummph,” she said, twirling around on her toes like a ballerina with bad feet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Crab headed for the house, bouncing on his toes like a crooked-tooth ballerina. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The fairies were uniformly tall and beautiful, with the lithe musculature of professional ballerinas. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Spinning on her toes like a real ballerina. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She straightens her knee slowly, her other leg pointing to the side, toes extended like a ballerina’s. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Between them sat a small table on which perched a crystal statue of a ballerina. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Around her waist bloomed one of those starchy pink ballerina skirts. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They were taking ballet lessons; Mona wanted to be a ballerina. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems that just yesterday I was an orphan child, a small, dirty-faced pikin—hungry, frightened, and clinging for dear life to a dream of becoming a ballerina. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It has a narrow waist and a crinoline skirt that bells out like a ballerina’s tutu. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The only thing he saw was the bizarre ballerina sloth in his head, the one that was taking shape pencil stroke by pencil stroke on paper. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Now, this girl has a lot of God-given talents, but the grace of a ballerina is not one of ’em. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized then that I just had to become a professional ballerina. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Her brown hair was pulled back in a ballerina bun. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She spun like a ballerina and slashed downward. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I swallow hard, thinking of Hattie and her perfect ballerina feet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Okay, Twinkle Toes,” Writing Cop said to Train Ear, Jelly Bones, Boom Box, Beat Box, and Clayton, “Looks like you ballerinas have all earned an official escort to the ball. But first, the bracelets.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I sighed and said, “Now I know that I will be a professional ballerina.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “A professional ballerina never allows her ribbons to flop loose around her ankles,” one of my favorite teachers used to warn me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z No, the ballerina would only break his heart, thought Meggie before she fell asleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The satin felt exactly as I had thought it would when I found the photo of the ballerina on the magazine. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night table a ballerina held aloft a lamp shade, and a soft pink light bathed her porcelain tutu, accentuating the curves of her strong legs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As we walk, snowflakes twirl like ballerinas and land on the ground, creating a soft pillow to walk on. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I tell her: we were dead, and then Ben managed to spin the car in just the right way, like some kind of brilliant vehicular ballerina. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “He moves into the toy castle with the ballerina and they live happily ever after—no melted heart, no burnt paper, nothing but their blissful love.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Within moments of his arrival, he finds himself with a glass of sparkling wine in hand, exchanging pleasantries with a former prima ballerina. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nancy's bedroom was the smallest, most personal room in the house—girlish, and as frothy as a ballerina’s tutu. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please notice if you can see my spots from the audience. If you can’t, then I know that I can be a professional ballerina someday.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Papito who paid the rent and bought them their winter clothes and spoiled them once with an outing to Lincoln Center to see the doll-like ballerinas dancing on their toes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Among the ashes lay the metal spangle from the ballerina's dress; it had been burned as black as coal. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She lifted her bangs—her face was delicate like a ballerina's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They didn’t look at all like the lovely ballerina in my magazine. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z What I had only been able to imagine when I first looked at the magazine picture of the ballerina had now become reality. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage have long been linked to the world of classical dance, having produced two of the greatest ballerinas, the sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her black hair, with a few strands of gray at the temples, was pulled back like a ballerina’s. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Mama, I’m learning too much tap. I’m afraid I’ll never learn to be a ballerina here,” I whispered into my mother’s ear one afternoon after class. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny had read about ballerinas, girls who could spin on their toes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The foot on it was angled forward like a ballerina’s pointed toes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It had been so long since a farrier had trimmed War Chief’s hooves that he hobbled painfully around the yard like a crippled ballerina. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It's almost like he's enjoying the design of me, the same way he appreciates the interlaced ballerinas. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She swung her long red hair around in a very good imitation of Fleur and pranced across the room with her arms held aloft like a ballerina. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Ugly black ballerina flats because Ma don't want me "looking fast in the house of the Lord." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z On my mother’s is a statuette of an inhumanly long ballerina. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He looked like one of those ballerinas that dance just on the tips of their toes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I don’t want to be sweet. I want to have womanly charms. I want to be a seductress. I want ballerina mystique.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, the doctor whisked open the curtain by my hospital bed and said, “So I heard we have a ballerina in today!” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As I said those words, a tiny girl with her blond hair in a ballerina topknot walked over to our table. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Alice bounded up and to the door in a fashion that would break any ballerina’s heart. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Both these remarkable and strikingly youthful dancers are examples of the ballerina as waif. Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Sleeping Beauty,? 2 Auroras at the Met 2010-06-20T22:57:00Z But the title of “La Bayadère” reminds us that this ballet is about a ballerina. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Production of ‘La Bayadère’ 2012-05-29T22:16:53Z I used to be a ballerina, so I’ve done everything as far as physical therapy goes. How Hailey Baldwin Gets Her ‘Glowy’ Look 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z These are, conspicuously, not full-length classics, something that rankles one of the Mariinsky’s leading ballerinas, Diana Vishneva, who is beloved for her interpretations of classical heroines at Ballet Theater. Greetings From Russia; The Feet Will Follow 2011-07-07T20:02:57Z Their latest theatrical creation, “Boxed In,” follows a B-boy, a D.J., a pianist and two ballerinas as they navigate the limitations of their respective forms and attempt to push past them into new artistic territory. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z As her movements develop a ballerina burnish, you think it's going to expand into something beautiful. Fruitful Ties and Bone Dust – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-21T17:00:02Z Here our heroine shows her true feminine soul, in a bejeweled chiffon evening dress with spaghetti strapped V-neckline and ballerina skirt, or a transparent embroidered peasant blouse with matching shimmery silver silk skirt. Summertime looks spill onto winter runway 2012-02-26T21:54:14Z Ms. Hyltin’s dancing in “La Source,” so full of talent and promise, made me wish she could study her role with one of the ballerinas whose account of it was celebrated. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z Copeland, the American Ballet Theatre principal and best-known ballerina in the country, if not beyond, drew more than 7,000 spectators. Misty Copeland packs Wolf Trap with the power of love 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z True, this isn’t as big a compliment as it sounds: in the last three decades very few ballerinas have given important performances in this ballet. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z Katie Warner Johnson, a Carbon 38 founder and a former ballerina, said: “I see a workout as a form of expression, so why should you be wearing a uniform when you hit the gym?” A Futuristic Exercise 2013-12-04T23:14:53Z Perhaps most important for the company is whether it can develop future ballerinas. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z All of this has helped guide Ms. Teuscher along her path as a ballerina, for which she has a clear ambition. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z He wants someone to co-inhabit his puddle of suppressed ambition, but the more home runs this ballerina hits, the further away she'll drift. Mad Men: season one, episode eight 2010-05-21T15:14:00Z To prepare, Ms. Hyltin watched hours of video of other ballerinas’ interpretations and even nature documentaries of swans to understand their physical behavior. First-Time Queen?s Double Demands 2011-02-13T01:06:06Z Two books by prominent New York City ballerinas address that question by focusing on not only what ignites a love of dance, but also how you protect the flame. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z But the Balanchine ballerinas of yesteryear registered on a grander, deeper scale. Ashton and Balanchine: Compare and Contrast 2010-07-01T22:36:00Z The simple lace of the austere Castilian plains undercut the sweetness of a ballerina skirt. 2010-01-05T06:10:00Z This is really a call to action for the ballerinas of color to show themselves; for the artistic directors, it’s a challenge for them to do what they say they want to do. A Chance to Dance for Minority Ballerinas 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The piece, set to music by Glazunov, was created as a showcase for the company's seven ballerinas, Margot Fonteyn among them, and was tailored to their exceptional individual skills. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2012-07-07T23:05:36Z The floating sweetness of the Chopin preludes, the slapstick with folding chairs and knives, the deliberately unruly corps and out-of-sync ballerinas: Here was an intoxicating immersion into a world of quirkiness, passion and great warmth. Suzanne Farrell Ballet soars in ‘The Concert,’ stumbles in ‘Swan Lake’ “Yeah, you can’t possibly be that surprised all the time,” says ballerina Taylor from the “Shake It Off” video. “Look What You Made Me Do” video: Taylor Swift battles herself and nobody wins 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z In the desert, we chased ostriches, who ran off like clumsy ballerinas. ‘Crushes Thrive in Small Spaces’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It tells the story of a ballerina crumbling under the pressure of winning a lead role. In pictures 2011-01-18T11:51:58Z Instead, the Mariinsky presented four incoherent, slight dance programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, billed as a tribute to the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who died in May. Review: The Mariinsky Ballet Offers Works Honoring Its Legends 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z One woman commented to her friend about a 14-year-old ballerina: "She looks like she belongs on the top of a cake." Students' arts dedication puts them in Spotlight at Disney Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The three men who remain dance with the four ballerinas — amid their changing formations, all sense is lost of who originally partnered whom — until these women also depart. New York City Ballet Casts a Singular Luster in ‘Jewels’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z A troupe of traveling artists, including a glamorous ballerina, arrives for the harvest festival. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z In the ballerina role, Frances Chung is strong and lucid; what she lacks as yet is a powerful dynamic range and the quality of elegant stretch that would turn her clarity into amplitude. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z The first Native American prima ballerina in history retired from regular performance in 1965. The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013) 2013-04-12T21:50:43Z This production, which opened Tuesday at the Kennedy Center, centers on one of the most interesting characters in the ballerina canon: brave Nikia, the “bayadere,” or temple dancer, of the title. Review | The ballerina who fights back: In ‘La Bayadere,’ she won’t be manhandled 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z As young dancers taught by white instructors, they had to navigate not only building a career in dance but building a career as Black ballerinas. Poised for Change at a Company Where Dancers of Color Feel at Home 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z There was nothing here to hint at the singular powers of a ballerina. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Yvonne Borree Hangs Up Her Toeshoes 2010-06-07T21:06:00Z In the street, a sweeper is cleaning up for a special performance that will feature modern dancers in Tyvek suits and a ballerina in a tutu made of bubble wrap. The culture pioneers: Making a Tijuana art scene built to last - LA Times 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z She wore funky platforms, and a white ballerina tutu around her waist. Grow up, inner child: I survived adult preschool play-for-pay, but I’m not going back 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z She had been kicked hard in the stomach by another dancer's toe shoe, the slipper with a block of hard board in the toe that allows ballerinas to stand en pointe. Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z This tiny force, a true ballerina in the making, brought me back to “Giselle,” not just through her breathtaking dancing but through her choices about what she wanted her Giselle to be. Emerging Through the Fog of a Pandemic With ‘Giselle’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “He got those steps from the friezes on the Acropolis. And then later, when Apollo calls out to the ballerina and she comes on and they touch fingers, that’s from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.” When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z More fantastical yet, in her latest series of small-scale paintings, a ballerina pirouettes on horseback, a naked dancer rides a magic carpet, and a lady of the lake punts through clouds of purple-orange mist. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z A few years ago, Helgi Tomasson, artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet, asked Moreno to work with his ballerinas on “West Side Story Suite,” a pastiche of excerpts from the musical. Rita Moreno on strength, stamina and the power of a killer body That’s a rather melodramatic utterance, especially from a ballerina past the age when most retire. Review: In ‘Restless Creature,’ Wendy Whelan Dances Against the Clock 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z One ballerina whips off a taxing circuit of turning jumps, then briefly collapses, caught as she falls by another woman. Dance Review: ?Jeu de Cartes? by the Pennsylvania Ballet - Review 2011-10-21T23:28:56Z And it offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the most prestigious ballet academy in the country, which has an almost mystical quality for aspiring ballerinas. ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z A former ballerina, Ms. Albarelli recommends mixing up both range and tempo when exercising thighs and calves. Skin Deep: Exercise and Makeup for the Exposed Leg 2012-08-22T16:09:37Z Leave it to a ballerina to put her finger on the key issue. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z A few seats down, Jessica Alba was bridging the split schools of thought with a black cropped sweater and longish skirt in ballerina pink. On the Runway Blog: Stargazing: The Final Day 2013-09-13T18:45:32Z But the twist was less bizarre than breathtaking — correct, compelling and proof that while Ms. Mearns, bold and brave, may be a ballerina of astonishing abilities, she is above all else a dancer. Review: An Incandescent Journey Through 20th-Century Dance 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Yes, she is Ballet Theater’s first African-American female principal, but Ms. Copeland has, perhaps more subtly, carved out another space for herself: as a ballerina with true acting chops. Misty Copeland, a Ballerina With Real Acting Chops 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Another unlikely device occurs when the ballerina arrives on one flat foot, the other foot crossed at the ankle and resting on its point. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z Earlier in the season, Cho revealed that she had loved dance as a child, but quit when someone called her a "fat ballerina." Margaret Cho sheds a tear as she leaves `Dancing' 2010-10-06T02:32:00Z The photographer Dane Shitagi took his first picture of a ballerina in 1994, when he persuaded a young dancer to pose in front of a waterfall near his native Oahu. The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “I realized I was thinking about Russian ballerinas and their little cardigans,” the designer said backstage. Fashion Review: The Wrap Dress at 40 2014-02-10T16:15:48Z The central ballerina, supported by her partner, holds an immobile arabesque, center stage. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The title role is a rare opportunity for a prima ballerina at the apex of both her technique and her expressive beauty. Critic’s Notebook: In American Ballet Theater’s ‘Sylvia,’ Stars Shine 2013-06-28T21:40:45Z Woodward is a young ballerina whose abandon gives a story ballet like “Beauty” not just care and aliveness, but a kind of modern soul. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z She was a ballerina and pianist whom he met in Paris, and whose ambitions he regrets curtailing. Rolling Merrily Along With Hal Prince 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The print ads, promoting a “teen financial education day” program, featured an image of a smiling young woman with the headline: “A ballerina yesterday. An engineer today.” Sorry About That: Wells Fargo to End Ads Suggesting Science Over Arts 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Many ballerinas have found the whole role elusive. Meet Aurora of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Her Native Language Is Classical Ballet 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “I was the ballerina who got kidnapped,” he told The Daily News of New York in 1993, remembering that first role. Everett Quinton, a Force in Downtown Theater, Dies at 71 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Claire Bloom plays the ballerina he rescues from a suicide attempt, and Buster Keaton appears toward the end; it’s the only film in which the two silent clowns share the screen. Movie Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The ballerinas lined up as if at the top of a steep ski slope, their faces a volatile blend of excitement and fear. Sliding Toward Tap, and Taking Risks, at American Ballet Theater 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Statues in progress–a classical figure in stainless steel, a pink ballerina–face off in a room where Koons and his assistants fetishize every surface. Jeff Koons' Really Big Show 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Four years after the accident, she debuted “Apollon,” a piece that wrestled with what Holzinger described as the “lived experience of ballet” and the “overdone femininity of ballerinas.” Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “Me, as a black prima ballerina dancing at the Metropolitan Opera House, I stand on your shoulders,” Copeland said before dancing a duet with Robert Fairchild to “Bill,” sung by Rebecca Luker. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Such productions that connected disciplined ballet with the grungy and free-spirited downtown art scene became a hallmark of the illustrious choreographer, deemed the “punk ballerina” by Vanity Fair in the ’80s. Karole Armitage’s artist collaborations are revisited at New Jersey’s Mana Contemporary 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Ashton, Britain’s greatest choreographer, was proud when the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina told him he was “a link in the chain.” Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z She is also a ballerina who laughs even when she’s in pain — and as her dancing days wind down, she is in pain. Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In the snow scene, for instance, little Clara encounters ballerinas dressed as snowflakes, whirling through a storm of silvery flurries, whipped along by some of the most gorgeous, dramatic music in the Tchaikovsky score. What’s it like to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s a marathon of pain. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Her eccentric comedy with Mr. Irwin became all the more amazing here, because in ballerina roles this year, she attained a new degree of elegant refinement. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Each movement is a formal realm with a ballerina as galvanizing monarch. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z Though treating his ballerina with tenderness and courtesy, he was a Prince without much depth, finding reality only when he tries in vain to find a husband for his bride’s elder stepsister. American Ballet Theater Performs Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Lauren Lovette, in her debut in Jerome Robbins’s “Opus 19/The Dreamer,” was wonderfully spooky — somehow not exactly of this earth — in the ballerina role. At New York City Ballet, the Good, the Bad and the Ruby 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Félicie, a French orphan, hopes to be a ballerina one day. Familiar faces turn up in summer kids movies 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “The vertical ballerina is now happily getting horizontal.” Wendy Whelan Is Inspired By Stravinsky and Chanel No. 19 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z In that photograph of the ballerina on "The Brownie's Book"'s first cover, I imagine her saying something similar to Bud Billiken's appeal – "Let us make the world know that we are living." When Black kids — shut out world of children’s literature — took matters into their own hands 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Juggling puppies, playdates and piano lessons along with a career isn’t unusual for a working mother, but Kent’s active family life sets her apart from most ballerinas. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z A ballerina blithely pirouettes in the background as lyrics proclaim: “No problems in paradise/We’ll lock them up.” Pussy Riot Takes Aim at Trump and Putin in New Song 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z After the cuts, Northern Ballet planned to shed 10 of its 40 ballerinas - a move described as "hideous" by Mr Skipper on BBC Two's recent behind-the-scenes documentary Arts Troubleshooter. Donors save ballerinas after cuts 2012-06-25T13:47:19Z Through it all these opaque creatures projected a tired, menacing air: working-girl pugilistic ballerinas, slicing through a punishing grind. Dance Review: Menacing Working Girls Stuck in Punishing Grind 2011-06-30T20:59:24Z The tradition of thanking ballerinas with flowers began in Europe some 100 years ago and is part of ballet’s “culture of appreciation,” said Meg Booth, the Kennedy Center’s director of dance programming. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s also because Ms. Richardson is a world-class ballerina who is always entirely at the service of the dance. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z This writer's irises, in a superbly fresh and exuberant poem, may really want to be ballerinas, and perhaps that aspiration could have made an adequate shorter poem that used only the balletic detail. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z Rather than design rooms as spaces in which to rest, the former ballerina and producer-turned-hotelier Alexander Kolpin approached Hotel Sanders’s 54 accommodations in the same way he would a theater set. In Copenhagen, Hotel Rooms Worth Traveling For 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z As we wait, a child twirls around a virtual ballerina as his parent cautions him to look out for the flesh-and-blood humans. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The new ballet risks offending other sensitivities, with dancers being asked to pretend to be mentally ill — more realistically than, say, a ballerina dancing the mad scene in “Giselle.” Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z She recalled how he would tell his ballerinas, “Don’t think, just dance.” New Center at N.Y.U. Focuses on Dance and the Arts 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z His cheerful good manners to his ballerinas have been unfailing; though he’s a surefire star, he still behaves with a humility that shows he knows this art is larger than he. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I remember that disappointment well, but I also remember being consoled by ballerina Cynthia Harvey’s otherworldly lightness in “La Bayadere.” The American Ballet Theatre circles back to Wolf Trap after 31 years 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The faux-pomposity of this parade is a fitting counterpart to the strict classicism and purity of the Kingdom of the Shades scene, with its soulful procession of ballerinas in white. Review | The ballerina who fights back: In ‘La Bayadere,’ she won’t be manhandled 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z At the time of the incident, Fonteyn, then 39, had achieved remarkable international acclaim as a ballerina. Ballerina's clumsy role in coup attempt detailed 2010-05-30T05:46:00Z Long hair means femininity and a certain degree of submissiveness; cutting it all off flies in the face of tradition and of how a ballerina is perceived. Bob or Bun? A Ballerina?s Tough Choice 2011-06-17T16:00:04Z “She was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest,” Urich said. 'Sound of Music' actress Heather Menzies-Urich dies at 68 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z At Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, there were muffins decorated with 3-D ballerina figures or candy canes, also Mouse King cookies: his nose is red, his face blue-gray, and his crown yellow. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: What the Gift Shops Are Missing 2010-12-17T12:00:52Z Boxing film "The Fighter" made the list of five movies that will vie for original screenplay, along with ballerina story "Black Swan," family comedy "The Kids Are All Right," and dramas "Inception" and "Please Give." Film producers, writers solidify Oscar race 2011-01-04T22:00:26Z She had the support of an actual ballerina for years. "Flashdance" turns 40, but our attitudes about working-class artists still need to grow 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Now other ballerinas, like Diana Vishneva, are doing what she did.” Sylvie Guillem?s ?6000 Miles Away? at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-30T16:19:31Z Alicia Alonso, who overcame near-blindness to become a charismatic ballerina of unusual range and power, and who helped found what became, with Fidel Castro’s support, the National Ballet of Cuba, died on Thursday in Havana. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “With David, what you see is what you get,” said the former ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who spent almost a month in Melbourne earlier this year, coaching Rudolf Nureyev’s “Don Quixote.” David Hallberg’s New Job: Decision Maker 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Although most of King’s ballets are performed on pointe, the ballerinas spend much less time tiptoeing around like they would in “Swan Lake.” Taller ballerinas reach new heights He imagined a young ballerina entering the studio and finding the sleeping boy, resulting in a pas de deux both erotic and innocent. PNB to mirror Robbins' 'Afternoon of a Faun' 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z There are Balanchine ballets in which one ballerina reigns alone in glory, but here he fields five, often in close conjunction. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z A Plane Indian coat in leather hung with dangling fringe was paired with a ballerina's skirt worn low around the model's ankle. Creative, fanciful couture at Franck Sorbier 2010-07-08T07:35:00Z Not only is she Balanchine’s last ballerina; she is also one of the New York ballet world’s last stars. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z High among the highlights of American Ballet Theater’s annual eight-week spring season are its world-class guest ballerinas. Critic?s Notebook: A Galaxy of Ballet Stars Spinning in a Flickering Universe 2011-06-05T22:25:36Z Most ballerinas spend their careers dancing ballets made by men and in companies run by men. Ashley Bouder and Wendy Whelan Step in New Dance Directions 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z I was not a ballerina; I was a third baseman. My big, strong, manly hands 2012-12-07T20:15:00Z If anyone can make a war horse new again, it’s this delicately wrought yet steely ballerina. The Week Ahead: May 22 ? 28 2011-05-20T20:21:34Z They had their first fittings for their coral-colored ballerina dresses last year and their second fittings last week. A new 'Copp?lia' comes to life at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2010-05-28T01:00:00Z For many people Suzanne Farrell herself was the most legendary and definitive of George Balanchine’s many ballerinas. | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-10-20T22:03:23Z And yet for an African-American ballerina, these moments really are huge — larger than her own self. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z Bradley was, understandably, exhausted; Furlan was isolated and racked with worry; Fairchild, tending to her newborns, was hell bent on transforming her postpartum body back into that of a ballerina. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Mearns, often so exuberant and vivid a dancer, is at her most beautifully aloof as the work’s other ballerina; as with Ms. Bouder, her absorption deepens the “Emeralds” spell. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z She was smitten by the theater as a 3-year-old when her grandmother took her to see ballerina Anna Pavlova. Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies at 95 2012-07-15T18:04:09Z It reminds me of a coat I once saw on display in a museum, a Dior coat from the ’50s that belonged to the ballerina Margot Fonteyn. What Dita Von Teese Wore From Dec. 7 to 13 2011-12-15T17:48:41Z For this ballerina, performing 32 fouettés — those flashy whipping turns made famous in “Swan Lake” — is like a rest step, she once told me. Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Weber also clearly understood that because there is no ballet in this tale for the world’s most famous ballerina, Pavlova, nevertheless, must be seen head to toe — her body must lead. Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Fellow prima ballerina Gurskaya said her performance is one way to help Ukraine. Russian, Ukrainian ballet stars to dance together in Naples 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The young ballerina returned to live with her mother full time. Ballerina Misty Copeland dances home to San Pedro 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Onstage and clasping a tall cane, he surveys a ballerina who’s on point in fifth position: Pygmalion to her Galatea, he’s the senior creator, she the youthful paragon, but both are plainly involved in labor. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Her goal, she says, is to be a leading ballerina, ideally in “Giselle,” the Romantic-era ballet about betrayal, death and forgiveness. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Picasso had his own reasons for lurking backstage; drawings and family photographs remind you that one of his wives was the ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Art Review: Who?s the Voyeur Now, Picasso? 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z The effect was exceptionally young, like pretty ballerinas, and surely an homage to the sweet, young heiresses sitting front row. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z My mom was a ballerina and was injured early on. Hayley Williams Is Fueled by Teas, Thrifting and Terrifying Films 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z As the ballerina, Gillian Murphy easily dispatched both the sisterly stuff and the male bravura steps. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z A 2015 issue of the professional publication "Journal of Dance Medicine & Science" contains a case study of a ballerina who suffered a nutcracker fracture while in "The Nutcracker." Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z On Feb. 27, Oscar night, Natalie Portman will likely be proclaimed the year's best actress for her performance as the obsessive ballerina in . No Strings Attached Review: The Thawing of Natalie Portman 2011-01-21T16:35:00Z The traditional loss of the ballerina to the group is here felt but not mourned. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z She later moved to New York to train as a ballerina, but a knee injury forced her to quit dancing and nudged her toward acting. Five top models-turned-actors 2012-05-18T00:49:08Z Another question this ballet asks is “How does a ballerina fit in to the group?” New York City Ballet’s Very 21st-Century Steps 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In Edgar Degas’s most famous paintings set in a dance studio, three two-story windows spill light into an otherwise gray room where ballerinas in white tulle stretch and strike balances before a ballet master. For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul But Ms. Osipova is the sort of ballerina who needs a little rebellion in her life. Bob or Bun? A Ballerina?s Tough Choice 2011-06-17T16:00:04Z At three, I knew I was too tall to be a ballerina, so that wasn’t going to happen. Shirley MacLaine: ‘The best kiss of my life? A director I worked with. I can’t say who’ 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z A 1948 tour of Mexico by Ballet Alicia Alonso, a small company led by the renowned Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, opened the door to elite training and an international career. Lupe Serrano, Ballerina of Power and Fire, Is Dead at 92 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z These five distinguished Native American ballerinas came out of Oklahoma all within one decade. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Allynne Noelle danced the ballerina role in half the four “Gounod” performances and the Liberty Bell prima in all four “Stars and Stripes.” Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z In the same way we misunderstand the child ballerinas of Degas. Artists have always glamorised prostitution. Manet savaged all their delusions 2011-02-06T22:36:01Z Like a ballerina on a music box, the model spins on a rotating platform, a fragile vision in luminous white. Review: ‘McQueen’ Reveals a Dazzling and Divisive Talent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z In late March, about two weeks after the show opened, one of the show’s ballerinas said she wasn’t feeling well. How ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Survived the Pandemic 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z In the world of classical ballet, the presentation of flowers to the lead ballerinas is a carefully choreographed ritual, one steeped in tradition and rules, and perfected by decades of practice. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z She told me she was a ballerina, a black belt in karate, fluent in 10 languages. I prayed my mom would leave 2012-09-05T00:00:00Z But then, it’s also hard to really see a Degas ballerina, as opposed to merely nodding with complacent recognition. Perspective | Are nature documentaries the greatest art of our time? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But it did matter that Ms. Vishneva’s interpretation was that of one of the world’s major ballerinas playing Cinderella. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z Natalie Portman, whose pregnancy stopped her flying to the UK for the ceremony, won best actress for her portrayal of a tortured ballerina in Black Swan. King's Speech reigns over Baftas 2011-02-14T16:28:10Z Visually, sexualised images of women dominate the stunning futuristic cityscapes, from pirouetting ballerinas to giant statues of naked women in heels looming over K as he goes on his journey. Is Blade Runner 2049 a sexist film – or a fair depiction of a dystopic future? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The video starts out as expected: Swift, as a ballerina, sings about how she’s stopped caring about what other people say: “I’m too late/Got nothin’ in my brain/That’s what people say.” Taylor Swift’s music video is uncomfortable, but is it really racist? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z First Keynes shocks fellow Bloomsbury members, including the men he previously had relationships with, by marrying a Russian ballerina. New & Noteworthy, From Slave Traders to the Savoy Hotel 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z A Cuban painter living in Puerto Rico, Williams Carmona, picked the ballerinas up from their hotel and helped arrange their flights to Florida, the dancers said. Defected ballerinas: We had no future in Cuba 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Last spring, Mark Zunino said he flew to New York to fit a gown for Misty Copeland, a principal ballerina of the American Ballet Theater, for her wedding last July. Celebrity Brides Attract Business for Dress Designers 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The comical body language of Sabre reminds me of a young girl’s music box with the ballerina pirouetting when opened. 2010 Reader photo of the year and honorable mentions 2010-12-30T06:43:59Z The ballet ends with the ballerina alone on stage, in a deep backbend, as first the neural-connection rainbows fade at the back, then the circle of light around evaporates. Alastair Marriott’s ‘Connectome’ opens in London 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Although she easily held her own among her elite classmates, she became convinced that she was too tall and ill proportioned to make it as a prima ballerina. Louise Slade, Scientist Who Studied the Molecules in Food, Dies at 74 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The second time, even more unusually, he does the plié with the ballerina’s support. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The curtain rose five minutes ago, the corps de ballet is building the atmosphere, the ballerina is about to enter, the audience is collecting itself in mounting excitement when —— “Excuse me, I’m so sorry.” Latecomers to the Theater Always Step on Toes 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “I am humbled by the Board’s confidence in me and excited to lead A.B.T. during this transition,” Jaffe, a former Ballet Theater ballerina who took office in December, said in a statement. American Ballet Theater Chief Resigns Suddenly 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z He presented a bouquet to principal ballerina Misty Copeland when she performed with American Ballet Theatre. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Hamilton wanted to be a ballerina, and when she was 11 she was accepted to the Alvin Ailey school of dance. Cinderella by Way of Cassavetes 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z After the company’s debut in 1974, critics applauded its smart satire of ballerinas and inherent commentary on the performance of femininity. Hairy Chests and Classic Tutus 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And Ballet Theater’s ballerinas and Tchaikovsky’s music deserve a better “Swan Lake”: in the final scene, where there’s no dance substance, the scenery becomes the main show. Ballet Theater’s Met Season, a Mix of Sparkling Moments and Familiar War Horses 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The principal ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq was both muse and wife to the legendary Russian choreographer George Balanchine when, at 27, she contracted polio. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z You want a British director, proper ballerinas, lusty singing, and a flood of surreal designs? “Cats” Reviewed: It’s Not Quite Weird Enough 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Dancing Juliet is a bittersweet sensation, she says; the arc of the story plunges the ballerina into despair as well as joy. Dancing Juliet: The power, stillness and pain of one of ballet’s greatest heroines 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “The ballerina is less objectified, in a different space.” Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z What is vital is to keep the comedy alive through a homage to ballet and the ballerina. The Trocks, an All-Male Dance Troupe, Balance Camp and Skill 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z And then there was the night a wire coat hanger fell from the sky, like a giant Joan Crawford snowflake, and banged a ballerina in the face. Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z As a founding member of the company and one of its star ballerinas, Johnson danced with Dance Theater for 28 years before retiring at 47. Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z When I watch this with an experienced prima ballerina and male dancers in a major opera house, I enjoy the choreography’s glory while seldom concerned with its logistics. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Studio Company Displays Growth 2014-02-09T22:39:56Z It is not the first time the point shoe has been used to depict weightlessness; 19th-century audiences swooned when they saw ballerinas glide across the stage on the tips of their toes. Taking Flight: Julie Kent at Washington Ballet 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Kylie Fox, a classical ballerina, then performed a “praise dance,” to “How Great Is Our God,” by the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. To Win a Supermodel’s Hand, 4 Goats and a Cola Nut 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z With her lyrical, elongated lines, Ms. Kent can look picture-perfect, but so mannered and grand ballerina was her performance, so languorous the tempo of music and dancing, that you could doze off between positions. Dance Review: A Crowd Favorite Takes His Leave 2011-07-01T22:41:17Z Johnson said her words were: “There are no Black ballerinas. Nobody’s going to hire you.’ Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Thursday’s ballerina in the two works was Teresa Reichlen, coolly dancing on a colossal scale. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Yvette Chauviré, one of the 20th century’s outstanding ballerinas and the most lustrous star of French ballet from the 1940s through the 1960s, died on Wednesday at her home in Paris. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z There are films revolving entirely around dance, like Michael Powell’s seminal “The Red Shoes,” with its bold colors, shape-shifting performance sequences and its story of a ballerina’s sacrifice. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Showcasing Films About Dance 2014-05-01T18:47:37Z Or cluster in front of ballerina brooches redolent, in their sweet innocence, of the postwar period of the 1950s? Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z In the performance that followed — with the orchestra making Ravel’s Champagne score now intoxicating, now serene — the ballerina was Maria Kowroski, the company’s only remaining dancer who worked with Robbins. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Alicia Graf Mack, a classically trained ballerina who returns to the company this season, credits Mr. Harris’s assistant, Nina Flagg, with helping to translate Mr. Harris’s directions into terms the dancers were used to. Alvin Ailey Partners With Maker of Reyataz for a Dance 2011-11-29T23:13:04Z Threaded through the ballet are a ballerina and male dancer in matching turquoise; everyone present is brilliantly part of the same Romantic-classical idyll. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z A ballerina for long sequences never touches the ground; the five men partnering her break up into changing geometries, with two men at one point taking turns to partner each other in penchée arabesque. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Celebrated by the Sarasota Ballet 2014-05-05T21:49:58Z Only the principals have color: The ballerina wears a dulcet combination of cream and gold. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Yet ballerinas, especially up to the 1950s, had more curves. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z She will reprise her original role, which, for many dancegoers underlines her status as America’s greatest contemporary ballerina. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z That’s a more modern ballerina, so they have to have a modern sensibility. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Edging toward death, Manon turns listless, but Ms. Kent, the ballerina, is fearless as she loses her balance, falling forward with such distraught recklessness that your heart skips a beat. Julie Kent Stars in American Ballet Theater’s ‘Manon’ 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z For what seemed like 10 minutes, Ms. Shafiroff fanned out her skirt for photographers and twirled like a music box ballerina, all but hijacking this otherwise decorous affair. What Price Generosity? 2013-06-21T22:36:02Z The ballerina, handsomely dressed by Moritz Junge in red, walks firmly on flat feet in one phrase, as if weighted by her sense of destiny and homeland. At American Ballet Theater Gala, All Is the Same but Different 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Among its features, I single out the way Balanchine’s pas de deux give extensive sequences of unaccompanied dance to the ballerina, so that her returns to her partner become matters of choice and drama. Review: Richard Alston’s ‘Carmen’ in Fort Lauderdale 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z This is a classical showcase, set to Glazunov and inspired by “The Sleeping Beauty,” in which the ceremonial dancing of seven couples frames seven solos for ballerinas. Review: Sarasota Ballet’s Dusty Baubles and an Ode to Spring 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z “THERE are Russians, and then there are Russian ballerinas from the Kirov.” The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z Natalie Portman is expected to win best actress as a ballerina lost in dangerous delusion in "Black Swan," while Melissa Leo is the supporting-actress favorite as a boxing clan's domineering matriarch in "The Fighter." `King's Speech' poised for Oscar coronation? 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z Three impressive young ballerina technicians took the roles of Spanish Chocolate, Arabian Coffee and Dewdrop. Review: E Pluribus ‘Nutcracker,’ as a British Critic Signs Off 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z There's something very Fonteyn-like about Rojo now – a precisely pitched interplay of vulnerability and ballerina chic that will surely inspire the dancers who share the stage with her. The Nutcracker – review 2012-12-23T00:06:43Z Before and during the Balanchine era, the ballerina was queen bee of ballet’s realm. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z When I was a young, impressionable bunhead seeking inspiration, I used to devour these kinds of stories, all told by thin, mentally struggling ballerinas with minor god complexes. Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z A dance artist known for years as the “punk ballerina” — a badge she still wears proudly — Armitage presented “A Pandemic Notebook,” an array of short works mixing movement, fashion and film. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z And though the costumes by Mr. Happel and Rustam Khamdanov also show plenty of stylishness and fantasy, the headgear — particularly the white marcelled wigs worn by several ballerinas — is generally ill advised. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z A palette of powdery colors dominated the looks, with some gowns in dusty pink evoking soft ballerina costumes, in a collection that designer Maria Grazia Chiuri described as a focus on craft over flashy fashion. Pared back Dior celebrates its ateliers at Haute Couture show 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The evening was graciously introduced by the ballerina Maria Kowroski, the company’s senior principal. Review: City Ballet Salutes Jerome Robbins, a Master of 2 Realms 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Keeping her technical virtuosity unobtrusive, Ms. Bouder displayed a lovely delicacy and wit; a contemporary ballerina incarnating a romantic ideal. Dance Review: Melissa Barak?s Bugsy Siegel Dance at City Ballet 2010-06-06T22:21:00Z And Carla Körbes, among the world’s greatest ballerinas today, was giving her final performances of Balanchine repertory in her farewell season with Pacific Northwest. Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z As the lead ballerina, Gillian Murphy, who strikes such an honest note as a dancer, floated backward in floor-skimming steps, which were so quiet that, with her eyes lowered, it seemed she was dreaming. Ballet Theater Offers ‘Sinfonietta’ and ‘Seven Sonatas’ 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z There’s definitely more beige ballerinas that are at the top of their company than there are those who are dark-skinned. A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Never mind Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, ballerinas are the high queens of female rivalry. Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z She recalls spending time in the theater wings and dusty rehearsal halls of her father’s stage productions, as well as being influenced by her mother, Nancy Vereen, a ballerina. After Reflected Fame, the Artist Karon Davis Steps Into Her Own Light 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Chaim Gross is represented by a graphite sculptural study from around 1940; it shows a stocky ballerina the size of a small child. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z She was recognized the world over for the stylized beauty of her choreography and named prima ballerina assoluta, the rarely bestowed highest honor in dance. Cuban official says revered ballerina Alicia Alonso has died 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The ballerina Sterling Hyltin will dance in “The Nutcracker” on Sunday. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Bening walks this delicate line with the skill of a beatnik ballerina. Annette Bening Is Extraordinary in '20th Century Women' 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The ballet turned its studio into what its artistic director, Lynn Parkerson, called a “jewel box” theater; chose dances that kept masked ballerinas socially distanced; and used barricades on the sidewalk to limit audiences. New York Theaters Are Dark, but These Windows Light Up With Art 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The musical is inspired by the original wax statuette of a young ballerina. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction The diminutive star won the Golden Globe last Sunday for her role as a tormented ballerina in Black Swan, which is playing gangbusters at the box office. Natalie Portman's very good week 2011-01-25T11:32:49Z Mr. Stowell’s choreography — at its subtlest and most complex for the big Waltzes of Snowflakes and Flowers — turns the Sugar Plum adagio into a blah series of big ballerina effects. Critic's Notebook: Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two ?Nutcracker? Productions 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z Ms. Bohachevsky, a ballerina from Ukraine who immigrated in the 1950s, founded a network of Ukrainian dance schools in the New York area, as well as the camp here. Ukrainian Dance at the Soyuzivka Resort in the Catskills 2012-08-24T22:48:11Z When one ballerina is doing rather too well in a long solo variation, another one tries — unsuccessfully — to trip her. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z In 1957, in the depths of the Cold War, she became the first ballerina from the Western Hemisphere to appear as a guest artist in the Soviet Union. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Armitage, who opened the show wearing black tights and a tiny black slip dress, has been called the “punk ballerina,” and her sharp, unbound movements contrasted with the constrained elegance of the clothes. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The Grammy Awards telecast on Feb. 13 is also sure to offer a few memorable dance moments; I’m thinking of you, Lady Gaga, and Kanye West’s twisted ballerinas. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z The most frightening is a lift in which the ballerina is held by one leg like a trophy as her partner dashes forward. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater 2012-12-09T22:24:22Z “She’s not just relating to the ballerinas who are doing the principal roles but to the newest apprentice in the room.” ABT star Julie Kent is Washington Ballet’s new artistic director 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z This one also appears to be a foregone conclusion: Natalie Portman's fragile ballerina in "Black Swan" looks to bring her Oscar gold. Oscar predictions: 'The King's Speech' may have last word over 'The Social Network' 2011-02-25T01:13:12Z Made for the three senior ballerinas of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet, “Symphonic Variations” needs authoritative stylists. An Exquisite Ratmansky and More From American Ballet Theater 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker mingled with former stars of “Law & Order,” members of the band Earth, Wind and Fire, ballerinas, silver-haired television anchors and mezzo-sopranos. Kennedy Center Honors Five, Second to None 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z But as ballerina meets clown, other personae break into the mix. Russian dance that's out of this world: Turin's Teatro a Corte 2011-07-13T11:36:09Z She is a far more unusual creature: a modern ballerina and a determined player in a world still dominated by male creators and directors. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z To hire a narrowboat, contact oxfordshire-narrowboats.co.uk What else should a ballerina wear while hunting trout? Stars go wild in the countryside 2011-08-06T23:05:32Z Alas, it’s all that Mr. Grigorovich’s staging encourages ballerinas to attempt. Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake,’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z A special curiosity to me was the bulldog ballerina: yes, a toy bulldog in a tutu. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: The Cheating Prince 2010-12-08T15:45:00Z The ballerina role remains one of the peaks of allegro bravura. Balanchine’s ‘Square Dance’ Speaks Ballet With an American Accent 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet wasn’t hardship and self-sacrifice the wellspring of inspiration for every Russian ballerina of legend? The Gimlet Eye: History Moves in Tutus and Greasepaint 2010-12-29T22:32:59Z I was a girly-girl: I played with dolls and loved the colour pink and wanted to be a princess or a ballerina. I was taunted for having two mums in the 1980s 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s she traveled to Cuba, where she produced a documentary with National Educational Television on the ballerina Alicia Alonso. Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Set in 1960s Los Angeles, it is inspired by the 1948 film “The Red Shoes,” about a ballerina whose obsession with dance conflicts with her need for love, ultimately leading to her suicide. Inside Art: ?New Photography 2010? Coming to MoMA 2010-07-29T20:43:00Z I feel like as a ballerina, you smile and nod and you take the beating. Twyla Tharp’s Troupe Prepares for a Milestone Tour 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In a pas de deux, the gentleman’s role is often to allow the ballerina to leap higher, suspend in air and pirouette longer. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z Performers famous for one art form seem forever tempted to try others, and Anna Pavlova, the great Russian ballerina, was no exception. When a Great Ballerina Tried Acting in Film 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Smith sat Misty Copeland, a ballerina for the American Ballet Theater, next to the filmmaker and culture critic Nelson George. The IRL Social Clubs 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z In 1957, Balanchine choreographed “Agon,” set to Stravinsky and featuring a central pas de deux for Mr. Mitchell and a white ballerina, Diana Adams. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Woe betide the conductor if he comes in too early after the ballerina’s pirouettes. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z There’s a ballerina trying to make her way in Chicago. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile the ballet asks us to home in just as keenly on tiny steps: the last of its five ballerinas dances a solo, much of which feels like rapid-fire needlework. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z It's mostly a gentle, quiet ballet, punctuated by a great deal of silly pantomime by the stepsisters, and it depends greatly on the charisma of its leading ballerina. PNB's 'Cinderella' is all about eye candy 2011-02-07T20:39:04Z Dancing Swanilda, the 's flirty, feisty heroine, she gets to show off her unique and astonishing range – from snub-nosed ingenue to grand ballerina, with all shades of spinning virtuosity and cute mischief in between. Bolshoi: Copp?lia 2010-07-23T20:30:00Z Brilliance is a good word for Friday’s Kitri, the principal ballerina Carla Körbes, who radiates a serene energy; here she was vibrant and strong, throwing herself into bravura steps without ever being rushed or tense. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Don Quixote? Has Premiere in Seattle 2012-02-06T23:18:17Z Wearing masks on their faces and numbers pinned to their leotards, young ballerinas auditioned in September at the academy, A & A Ballet. ‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z There are leaps onto the Cavalier’s shoulder, turns in which the ballerina is caught by the wrist, long balances and dramatic fish dives. What Does an Angel See in Her Future? Maybe a Sugarplum Fairy. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z She is not made in the ballerina mold of the past, all delicate curves and hyper-feminine prettiness. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The ballet needs a prima ballerina at the height of her powers; on Monday Gillian Murphy was at her finest. Dance Review: Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Is Revived at American Ballet Theater 2013-06-25T21:14:40Z Then, like a ballerina, I turned each foot out and negotiated the trunks in small steps. In Idaho, Tracing What Remains After the Flames 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z You take tiny steps like a little ballerina. Dear Mitt, you walk funny 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z In “Walpurgisnacht,” a female soloist alternates sections with a lead ballerina. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z As the snare drum crescendos, an army of similar green-legged ballerinas invades the city’s harbor; their kicks slice past the skyline like blades. Amid upheavals, there’s good news in Hong Kong: Its ballet thrives 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Because two principal ballerinas were leaving the company, at least as many promotions were expected. American Ballet Theater Promotes 4 Dancers 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z There are certain stereotypes of ballerinas, that she’s very composed and looks sort of grand and so on — the primas. Anastasia Meskova on the Bolshoi: ‘I Was in the Middle’ 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Balanchine himself was not without controversy; he had a roving eye for ballerinas. Perspective | In wake of suit against New York City Ballet, audiences and funders should demand answers 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z It was always some vision of some 19th century crackpot ballerina. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z By 9, Zohra was convinced: She wanted to be a professional musician — and a ballerina, a mathematician and a physicist. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z I try to absorb everything that that ballerina has to give. Just Asking: Francesca Dugarte, ballet dancer Models walking alongside rows of computer hardware wore classic Chanel tweed suits and jackets completed with metallic ballerina shoes. Chanel's Lagerfeld turns fashion into giant data center 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “It’s impossible to lift a ballerina,” he said. Joy and Nostalgia in Moscow as Bolshoi Theater Reopens 2011-10-29T01:50:11Z Generosity is crucial in a partnership, and Corella says he's most proud of the relationships he formed with his ballerinas. Ready for his adieu: A beloved dancer reflects 2012-06-27T21:02:11Z “She’s a Balanchine ballerina, she was one of the original interpreters of much of his choreography, and also a beloved teacher to subsequent generations of dancers.” Dancers’ Voices Across Time, in the Things Left Behind 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Being a ballerina is very self-involved, and our family at City Ballet is one of the best there is. Georgina Pazcoguin on Her First Broadway Opening Night, in ‘Cats’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z For a time the book’s subject, Stephanie, was perhaps the most famous and easily recognizable ballerina in the world. ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z The film stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina who sacrifices more than her feet to get the leading role in Swan Lake. Black Swan makes a splash at Venice film festival 2010-09-01T17:28:00Z Last May, adrift in a suddenly untethered world, five former ballerinas came together to form the 152nd Street Black Ballet Legacy. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Almost the first thing a visitor sees in the entrance hall at Knole is a life-size sculpture of a reclining nude, a famous Italian ballerina known as La Baccelli. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Among the other Un Certain Regard winners were Belgian actor Lukas Dhont who won Best Performance for his role as a transgender teenage girl’s quest to become a professional ballerina in “Girl”. Weird romance 'Border' wins Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z When I compare Gillian Murphy to the more luminous visiting ballerinas, I see at once that despite her experience and intelligence, she is the kind of dancer you can sometimes take your eyes off. Dance Review: Ballet Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-06-21T22:00:03Z But by the time the first ballerina appears, in serial photographs and a video from 1973, it’s clear that Ms. Antin is bringing feminism and some element of personal experience into the mix. Art Review: Eleanor Antin’s Selves at Columbia University 2013-09-05T21:49:22Z But it’s Balanchine choreography that gives a ballerina her highest challenges. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z On Thursday night Putin opened a gala concert conducted by Gergiev and featuring the tenor Placido Domingo and homegrown stars such as the soprano Anna Netrebko and ballerina Diana Vishneva, who performed to wild applause. Russians hope Mariinsky II will revive Saint Petersburg as cultural capital 2013-05-02T18:04:03Z “Other than Janet Collins, Blacks were not hired at that time,” she said, referring to the first African American prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z He gave it a ley line that connected Karole Armitage, “the punk ballerina,” who choreographed part of the show and lent it her dancers, to Miley Cyrus, the punk former Disney star, who modeled. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z As with every ballerina he partners, he helped her performance by the devoted, affectionate attention he paid her: He was her Albrecht. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Giselle’ in Washington 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z I’ve never seen a ballerina mingle beauty and cruelty so well. Ballerina thrills as both Odette and Odile 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Perfectly bleached roots peeking out from under a bed in her dollhouse, resembling white ballerina slippers. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z And Peck looks reborn in solos that show her for what she is: A ballerina with jazz in her bones. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Suitably, a lot of ballerinas pick Juliet as the role they would wish to end their careers with. Dancing as Juliet, Young and Old 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z “The collection was inspired by Russian ballerinas,” the hairstylist Orlando Pita said backstage. | Ballet Rehearsal Buns at Diane von Furstenberg 2014-02-10T16:42:48Z Copeland’s appearance is a coup of historic proportions for the Washington Ballet, which will be forever linked with her boundary-busting debut in the most coveted ballerina role in the ballet repertoire. Misty Copeland to make ‘Swan Lake’ debut with Washington Ballet The four "ballerinas" are danced by the heftier members of the company, towering over their smaller men. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z But then the ballerina was whipping off 32 perfect fouettés, and it was no longer possible to say where the shouting was coming from. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z A dancer like Lallone doesn't fit well into a line of shorter ballerinas, and so it took a little while for her to rise in the ranks. Ariana Lallone prepares to bow out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:08:55Z Yes, but a ballerina of a particularly restricted kind. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z He kept promoting it and being an ambassador after stepping away so that in 2009, his former ballerina Virginia Johnson could take over as director and streamline it for leaner times. Perspective | The night I danced with Arthur Mitchell at the White House 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Hers has been an unusual career, with her height limiting potential pas de deux partners; Lallone has performed more solo roles than other PNB principal ballerinas, and fewer classical duet roles. Ariana Lallone prepares to bow out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:08:55Z And so my whole thing of being a ballerina is to kind of break the barrier down. Tiler Peck missed dancing onstage. She went and found one. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z As a ballerina, Phelan is incandescent, with a beauty that seems not of this era. What Is the Power of Unity Phelan’s Dancing? ‘I’m Clay.’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Then we find these men aren’t partners to this ballerina but are a busy backing group on either side of her. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z Depending on who’s talking and the body image of said speaker, “fat” may refer to a person of furniture-breaking dimensions, or a size 8 ballerina. Is it OK to call someone fat? 2014-01-20T14:30:00Z Photograph: Camera Press It should be easy, I think as I wait at Heathrow airport one early morning, to spot a ballerina amid the hunched, harassed people entering the arrivals hall. Tamara Rojo: 'It's better to jump off while you're at the peak' 2012-10-05T23:15:01Z Last week, she became the first African-American ballerina to dance Swan Lake at the Metropolitan Opera House. Misty Copeland Becomes First Black Principal Ballerina at American Ballet Theater 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z "I'm not overweight," said the ballerina, who at 37 is not only a company veteran but one of only three mothers in its ranks. Her, fat? Ballerina tells critic she's just fine 2010-12-14T00:46:04Z Echo and Narcissus fall into a mirroring dance of love, in which Echo promenades and lifts Narcissus like a ballerina. ‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate) 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Moody and elusive, “Opus 19/The Dreamer,” set to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, features a male dancer interacting with a ballerina, but it’s not exactly romantic. Lessons From Baryshnikov on Robbins (Less Is More) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Those tragic early events stamped the future ballerina with an enduring anti-Soviet streak that often teetered on the edge of dissidence, but another family connection and her innate talent predominated. Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z The affection in which the ballerinas Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes have been held was matched on Wednesday by the warmth with which they greeted their colleagues and audiences at their farewell performances. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The bigger surprise was the evening's opener: “Theme and Variations,” Balanchine’s banquet of technique, created in 1947 to showcase the regal command of Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso. Raucous grandeur in Washington Ballet’s ‘Carmina Burana’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Ventimiglia was referring to a moment that is now almost standard in the curtain-call ritual, whereby after receiving her bouquet, the ballerina pulls out one flower, kisses it and presents it to her partner. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Pacific Northwest Ballet’s strong lineup of principal ballerinas stand ready to tackle one of the hardest jobs in ballet: the fiendishly demanding double role of Odette/Odile. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for February 2018 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet for a ballerina, Vikander explains, they were less than ideal. Alicia Vikander: ‘I made five films in a row before I had a scene with another woman’ 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z But I also was a young ballerina, and there was nothing I wanted more than to be like the beanpole girls I saw in class. Modern Love: Chubby, Skinny, Accepting — Modern Love 2013-01-03T22:44:01Z Some remember Allegra Kent as the most inspiring of all New York City Ballet’s many ballerinas. Dance This Week: ‘Ballerina Swan,’ ‘Die Fledermaus’ and the Choreography of Merce Cunningham 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z And Ms. Kent, 45, revered as the company’s reigning dramatic ballerina, joined in 1986. Three American Ballet Theater Dancers Plan Their Last Steps 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z As Odette-Odile, the ballerina must absorb the audience with her imagination. Critic’s Notebook: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ 2013-06-23T21:47:42Z In that bathing suit, Mr. Steffensen runs around, doing a wafting dance that recalls his littlest girl’s ballerina fantasies. Dance Review: ‘Summer’s Different,’ at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater 2013-04-30T21:02:54Z “It was as if a ballerina was doing stripping on the side.” Lily Renée Phillips, Pioneering Comic Book Artist, Dies at 101 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The bond between ballerina and corps de ballet, so central to Act II, is no longer in the picture. Dance Review: The Enduring Mysteries of a Swan Queen and the Maidens Who Share Her Fate 2011-06-28T21:55:07Z You might have heard of her — the twinkly ballerina star of the “The Nutcracker,” which delivers an annual dose of Tchaikovsky and tulle to families across the country this time of year. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z You’d never mistake his pictures of muscular athletes with Degas’ paintings of ballerinas. The stomach-churning, visceral power of Chris Finley's weightlifter portraits 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Peck the ballerina suggests a little change in a turn. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z And to be a new restaurant these days almost demands that you offer pavlova, the vintage dessert sprung from crisp-soft meringue and named for a long-ago Russian ballerina. Review | The inviting Imperial brings a fine taste of the classics to Adams Morgan 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The way to the upstairs space leads past a multi-ethnic collection of pint-size ballerinas — drinking in the sudden warmth and collectively evoking something painted by Degas. 'White Noise': Racism with a good beat 2011-03-26T14:08:30Z There have been no formal reviews of the musical about artist Edgar Degas and his ballerina muse because the production is still not officially “open.” Opening night for Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ — or is it? This ageless ballerina owns this role, and will be greatly missed; a sentiment conveyed by the opening-night audience’s long, warm standing ovation for her. PNB’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ is simply a dream 2014-02-03T20:10:23Z The company kicked off with a feel-good ad featuring a ballerina that went viral and racked up 4 million views in just one week. Under Armour's Stunning Ballerina Ad Aims to Lure Women From Lululemon 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The ballerina Heather Watts created roles for both men at City Ballet. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Pawlikowski, 60, lived in exile from Poland from the age of 14 when his ballerina mother escaped with him to the West. Story of doomed love 'Cold War' wows Cannes festival 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z A lot will be going on in the streets below Shonibare's serene ballerina, particularly late on Friday and Saturday nights. Yinka Shonibare's ballerina twirls into action above Covent Garden 2012-06-18T23:05:01Z There are still a number of ballerina roles in which dancers seem pint sized, musically blurry, spiritually timid. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z The role, which sees the star play ambitious ballerina Nina Sayers, marks a complete change for the former Star Wars actress. Black Swan set to soar 2011-01-14T09:51:08Z When was the last time laundresses, embittered alcoholic single moms and hard-working ballerinas got to belt out their dreams? ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical Gosling was now delicate and goofy, as light on his toes as a ballerina, while Crowe was an ungainly, unshaven lump. Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z He’s likely doing some major athletic feats and some fancy footwork to make the prima ballerina soar. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z They couldn’t use the pool because it was occupied by a fitness class, led by an Aqualilly, for civilians eager for the long, lean bodies of water ballerinas. The Aqualillies: In the Pool, Poetry in Motion 2013-08-09T23:02:31Z By contrast, the American ballerinas “were afraid to move freely when they put on a tutu,” Makarova says. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z He and his wife, the Australian ballerina Marilyn Burr, were staging a new production of “La Sylphide,” scheduled for May 23. Ivan Nagy, Star of American Ballet Theater, Is Dead at 70 2014-02-26T01:29:55Z A prima ballerina, she left the Soviet Union to join the American Ballet Theatre and performed in Romeo and Juliet the week the Kennedy Center opened in 1971. ArtsBeat: Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman and Led Zeppelin Among New Kennedy Center Honorees 2012-09-12T15:00:27Z He’d rather his ballerina be great — that is, molded by him alone — than be happy. Review | Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’: Lovely when focused on what he knows best 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The ballerina also goes in drag, to toy with the old man’s wife: women are vain fools here too, just not as much. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z "For me to be a Russian ballerina means to be able to dance with your soul and in order to dance with your soul you need to not even think about your legs." Bolshoi Ballet Academy to see first U.S. graduate 2012-01-31T12:40:50Z Each has a pas de deux in which the ballerina seems like a magical wild beast whom her partner keeps at arm’s length. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Degas has an elderly, humpbacked, maltreated maid, and there are other young ballerinas, all but pushed by company officials into the arms of wealthy men. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical Mr. Gallagher hosts seminars, called Pilates at the Pillow, at Jacob’s Pillow, a dance center in the Berkshires where Mr. Pilates once worked with ballerinas. The Fight for the Soul of Pilates Moves From Instagram to Court 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Only in 1987-90 did she start again to reconquer the ballerina repertory and acquire further roles. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z The emotion of “Year of the Rabbit” is joy, epitomized by the ballerinas who are sent sliding across the floor, toboggans with pointed toes. Dance Review: City Ballet Performs Justin Peck’s ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2012-10-07T22:18:34Z He and Mark Welford run Bloomsbury Flowers, frequent suppliers of flowers to Royal ballerinas. How ballet fell for flower-giving 2012-12-18T20:00:01Z He took index cards to events like a fund-raising sale for the Sadler’s Wells ballet, where he saw a Balenciaga toreador jacket donated by the prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn. Hamish Bowles, He Was Born Dandy 2013-09-06T21:34:19Z Ms. Peck endearingly held her own: As Mr. Irwin took on ballerina qualities, she took on clown ones. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z On Sunday, the former actress hit the red carpet – her first as a royal – for the London premiere of "The Lion King," with her dark hair swept in a sleek ballerina bun. Meghan Markle ditched messy buns for this relatable reason, hair expert claims 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “Monumentum” and “Movements” are always presented in tandem, usually with one ballerina, though only occasionally with the same male dancer. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Natalie Portman, who underwent rigorous training to star as a perfectionist ballerina, is still a lead contender for the best actress Oscar, even if the movie ultimately divides audiences. The Carpetbagger: Schmoozing in the Service of an Oscar 2010-12-22T22:49:37Z When he and Teresa Reichlen made their debuts in “Diamonds” early this month, his composure was such that my companion assumed he was a guest principal imported to assist this tall ballerina. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z Suzanne Farrell, most celebrated of Balanchine ballerinas, danced the second movement, Ms. Austin the third, and in the finale the two were centerstage, leading the company’s arrayed ranks. Dance This Week: Misty Copeland, the Royal Ballet and Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Dressed casually in a matching floral print top and jeans with black ballerina flats, Goodwin kept her purse around her shoulder as she pretended to present an Emmy. Ansari, Goodwin keep Emmy rehearsals casual 2012-09-23T02:01:08Z She might have cut it as a ballerina in Black Swan but here we’re very much below the waterline, watching her paddle awkwardly through her song-and-dance routines. In the shallow: why does Hollywood hate pop music? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Misty Copeland — Ballet Theater’s first Black female principal dancer and one of the most famous ballerinas in the United States — is among them. Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to ‘Blend Into the Corps’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The State Ballet Theater of Russia, founded by the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, brings the expected Russian poise and grandness to this story of adolescent awakening on Christmas Eve. Dance in NYC This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Long considered City Ballet’s most strikingly modern ballerina, Ms. Whelan, 46, is venturing beyond the traditional ballet world, where dancers routinely retire by 40, to satisfy her desire for challenges. Wendy Whelan Embraces Contemporary Dance 2013-08-02T18:58:39Z “By getting rid of all the ballerina aspect,” she replies. Dancing Juliet: The power, stillness and pain of one of ballet’s greatest heroines 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z All four, dancing ballerina roles in other ballets, danced with an affectionate fullness that suffused the theater. Critic’s Notebook: In American Ballet Theater’s ‘Sylvia,’ Stars Shine 2013-06-28T21:40:45Z Occasionally, a music box may accompany its owner into adulthood as a place to keep jewelry, guarded, most often, by a tiny spinning ballerina. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Ratmansky’s use of the ballerina is a larger discussion for sure, but one of the great pleasures in watching his work is to see how he has modernized femininity in ballet. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Russian Seasons? From New York City Ballet 2012-02-05T22:36:15Z But it puts even greater responsibility for communicating the ballet’s tragedy on the ballerina playing Odette. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Met Opera House 2012-06-26T21:12:40Z He directed several gorgeous films of ballerinas in masks, a haunting dance of eighteen-century colonizers dressed in his Dutch fabric. Go See Yinka Shonibare at the Morris-Jumel Mansion This Weekend 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Alicia Weihl, a former professional ballerina who is now a director of training at Physique 57, was also surprised by how hard she found her first class. Skin Deep: Lining Up to the Barre 2011-05-11T22:16:36Z As a principal dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Mr. Franklin was often paired with the Russian ballerina to form one of the great partnerships of 20th-century ballet. Frederic Franklin, Inventive Ballet Star, Dies at 98 2013-05-05T23:23:17Z But then, what can you expect from a colleague who addresses a grown woman as "ballerina"? "Mad Men" recap: Innocence lost 2010-08-02T06:05:00Z The Andante features a stream of five perfect duets; as you watch each ballerina dance a single pas de deux, you scarcely notice that two of the men do double duty. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z No special ballerina fingers and no flutterings of grief or protest: just a boy swan on the floor, head down, arms over his extended leg, finding a final stillness. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z Most ballerinas her age would be thinking of retiring now, yet as a tap dancer, Dormeshia is in her prime. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Even twirling like a prima ballerina as she fantasizes alone in her living room or being blithely, politically incorrect, Lorraine seems calm, centered and purposeful. Review: In ‘Happy Talk,’ Susan Sarandon Escapes Into Amateur Acting 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Among them are a richly colored hand study; a sketch of his first wife, Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, resting an elbow in a seated pose; and a collage of a pipe and bottle. Picasso trove surfaces in France 2010-11-30T08:16:00Z Maria Kowroski performed the ballerina role tenderly and lightly; she’s reluctant to exert authority or find a wide range of color in the music. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z Ms. Kondaurova now looks to be the most glamorous and sensuously elegant of all current European ballerinas; her dancing abounds in gorgeous features. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z In “Walpurgisnacht,” Ms. Mearns gives the single greatest ballerina performance of our era — hurling out fantastically bold, amazingly precise, rivetingly complex dance coloratura with musical blaze and rich colors. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Elise is about a decade younger than me; she is also Nordic, smooth-skinned and built like a ballerina. Aging and My Beauty Dilemma 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z In ballet few ballerina solos last longer than two minutes. Dance Review: Ramya Ramnarayan at Ailey Citigroup Theater 2012-06-11T21:36:36Z Raised and home-schooled by hippie parents in Birmingham, Alabama, they were actually trained as ballerinas before Allison ran off to join a religious cult. First sight: The Pierces 2010-10-26T21:59:00Z For the young girl, the dragons and ballerinas are out of sight, though still spinning, breathing and up for sale for those of us wandering through the metaverse with cryptocurrency to burn. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z A Plane Indian coat in leather hung with dangling fringe was paired with a ballerina's skirt worn low around the model's ankles. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z Growing up in Manhattan, Leonard wanted to be a ballerina. Mezzo Isabel Leonard balancing singing and being a mother 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “I had never seen a Black ballerina before, let alone a whole company,” Shelton-Benjamin, 64, said during a February Zoom meeting. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “I see them doing such hard exercises. My goodness me!” said Sollom Williams, who was born in London and in her youth was a professional ballerina for 15 years. D.C. woman, 90, watches gym classes from her window all day. When the gym found out, they painted her a mural. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z After marrying his favorite ballerina, he went on to dance in Munich, London and Italy, performing in several ballets that allowed him to dance Zephyr, his signature role. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Watching Dupont rehearse, though, one can’t help but see the outlines of the ballerina inside the sack, the radiating line of her leg as she stretches into space in an arabesque. Aurélie Dupont, Unbound 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z That includes "Black Swan," in which Portman plays an unhinged ballerina. Natalie Portman romantic comedy leads box office 2011-01-23T18:24:45Z The short features beauty and brutality as Olya, a ballerina and Evgeny, a boxer, engage in a kind of pas de deux. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Her ad, which followed ballerina Misty Copeland's, is the latest in the athletic brand's "I Will What I Want" campaign, which touts its women's line by flipping the notion of female athletic stereotypes. Gisele Bundchen planks with Fallon, touts Under Armour and corsets 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z When the company danced “Birthday Offering” in Washington in January, its seven ballerina roles were mainly taken by soloists. The Watch List: American Ballet Theater?s Spring 2010-05-13T20:58:00Z She isn’t, however, reliable in high-definition fast roles; at present the ballerina role of the fourth movement of “Symphony in C” — a notoriously hard part — is evidently more than she can handle. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z Ms. Copeland will play what a Disney spokeswoman called the lead ballerina role in the film, “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.” Misty Copeland Joins Disney’s ‘Nutcracker’ Film 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Women are absent from the newly designed Dance Ink, but Ms. Tarr and Mr. Miller are hoping to redress that next time with an all-female issue, possibly focusing on a ballerina or modern dancer. Sidestepping the Web, Dance Ink Is ‘a Performance in Print’ 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Kudos for the arrangement when she'd sing "still I'm gonna miss you" in a rapid ballerina cadence and how the piano would echo it. 'American Idol' Was Only Rock 'n' Roll But I Liked It 2010-03-17T17:10:00Z Yet just because dancers’ voices aren’t encouraged, she added, doesn’t mean they don’t exist: “It shouldn’t be shocking to anyone that every ballerina has a voice.” Ashley Bouder, the Feminist Ballerina With a Mission 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The film offers a rare glimpse of Fonteyn in her offstage role at the Royal Academy of Dance, Ms. Fitzpatrick said, and it reflects an important change that the ballerina made during her presidency. From the Music Hall to Ballet Royalty: A British Tale 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z “You’ve got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina,” she told students adamantly in a technique class. A Former Renegade Spirit Becomes a Headmistress 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Ms. Ringer is that rare double threat: a ballerina who can write. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z To conquer Aurora is proof that a dancer is on her way to becoming a ballerina. Cassandra Trenary on Having (Just) Danced ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z "Our museum is more like a ballerina, or the dancing lady going to the ball." Petersen Automotive Museum soups up its exhibits and cherries out its exterior 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z In 1905, the prima ballerina Anna Pavlova premiered a solo ballet created just for her, “The Dying Swan,” which she would go on to dance about 4,000 times before her death in 1931. The Pavlova Begs for Improvisation 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In the final scene, the Prince must lift his ballerina overhead and then walk downstairs and across the stage. American Ballet Theater Performs Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z It also offers this advantage: from the close-ups of the ballerina's face as she holds her legs in a perfect half past 11, I can see that she knows she's exceptional, too. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z Growing up in Colorado, she dreamed of being a ballerina and apprenticed with a local company before finding work as a dancer at a dinner theater in Boulder. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z A. Compared with the other ballerinas, I think I look a bit flimsy and superficial. Anastasia Meskova on the Bolshoi: ‘I Was in the Middle’ 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z In it, a group of swing-steeped college kids and a cadre of Russian ballerinas strut their stuff for one another in a “can you top this?” dance-off. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z This event focuses on some of the ballerinas who paved the way for Misty Copeland, who, in 2015, became the first African-American woman to be named a principal at American Ballet Theater. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z She is a renowned ballerina known for dazzling technique and charismatic portrayals in title roles like “Giselle.” The Ballet Star and the Russian Magnate: A Feud Roils the Dance World 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z And Ms. Körbes became for many the finest ballerina in America. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Frederic Franklin, a fellow dancer, said: “She came back really as a ballerina. You saw what she could do.” ‘Mia, a Dancer’s Journey,’ at Film Festival in New York 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z She has a look and verve similar to those of Violette Verdy, the beloved French-born City Ballet principal who died this year, but Ms. Woodward is also a ballerina of her time. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The small, dark-haired, astonishingly athletic and fiercely emotive ballerina seemed the ideal partner for Hallberg. From South Dakota to the Bolshoi, a dancer's leap 2011-11-03T11:26:09Z The cool grandeur of Teresa Reichlen as the lead ballerina in “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” transformed the mood entirely, which is what you hope for in a night at City Ballet: variety. Review: ‘La Sylphide’ Is City Ballet’s Bittersweet Valentine 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But it will also close a more recent chapter of its history, as three ballerinas retire. Three Ballet Theater Principals to Retire 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z You clapped for one ballerina doing 32 fouetté turns in the first half? American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z At 8 years old I was like “I’m an actor,” and people go, “OK, yeah, I used to want to be a ballerina.” Jessica Chastain: The Oscar-Nominated Star Talks About Playing the “Girl” Who Got bin Laden 2013-01-11T13:00:20Z Few ballerinas, if any, have since repeated that feat. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, Dies at 75 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z With his long legs and fiercely carved profile he's a master of traditional flamenco; but his mercurial body also flickers through skidding cartoon comedy, ballerina delicacy and exotic stillness. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z But Cassandra Trenary, a wonderfully dramatic ballerina, found a fresh, modern — and because of that, less troubling — way into her mad scene in “Giselle.” American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z I was here on Sunday night to watch the farewell performance of Carla Körbes, one of the most marvelous ballerinas of our day. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z She also overemploys her adorable vulnerability across the board; I never saw a ballerina so enchantingly talented at playing the victim. Review: ‘World Ballet Stars’ Puts a Spotlight on Bucharest From a Global Cast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But if women are still the symbols of ballet in the popular imagination, chances are it is as ballerinas performing dazzling, demanding steps that were devised for them by men. Breaking the Glass Slipper: Where Are the Female Choreographers? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The history-making ballerina was overwhelmed by the accomplishments of her fellow honorees: advocating for refugee children, providing creative industry jobs to keep young Salvadoran men out of gangs. ‘I became an icon. Now I want to be an oracle’: Diane von Furstenberg is ready for her third act. 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Whelan’s 2016 documentary about her last year as a ballerina, “Restless Creature,” captured acute tensions between her and Martins; he took her out of “The Nutcracker,” for example, leaving her distraught. After a year of upheaval, New York City Ballet names new leadership team 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The tiny ballerinas gathered around the TV, some sneezing and coughing through their masks. ‘The Nutcracker’ and the Sex Tape 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z When the solo’s opening melody returns, halfway through and now to teasingly hypnotic effect, Petipa makes his ballerina slowly travel across the stage in a single diagonal. New York City Ballet Is in Limbo, but in Bloom 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The pratfalls and generic physical jokes — one ballerina knocking down another, sometimes by accident — are fail-safe, yet the satire of Fokine’s ballet blanc is also exactly on target. Looking Fabulous at 40, and Still Happy to Step on a Few Toes 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Titania in Ashton’s “The Dream” was another role that suited her to a T, as did the senior ballerina in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Piano Concerto #1,” but her performances of both quickly became memories. Review: In ‘Onegin,’ Two Star Ballerinas on Contrasting Arcs 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Dorrance, 39, started in ballet — in the school founded and directed by her mother, a professional ballerina. Sliding Toward Tap, and Taking Risks, at American Ballet Theater 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In a studio where wall-length mirrors laid bare imperfections, a young ballerina floated in deceptive grace. Students' arts dedication puts them in Spotlight at Disney Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s a little perverse, seeing the great ballerina do this, but for her to channel her dramatic powers into these spare, considered gestures feels like real growth. Review: The Virtuoso Sara Mearns Considers Other Virtuosities 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z A sense of vocation drives the piece, and Marianela Núñez, shaping every move to catch it, is both ballerina acolyte and goddess. MacMillan triple bill | Dance review 2010-03-24T22:05:00Z Here was a modern dancer, a black dancer, an American dancer praised by critics and audiences alike in the 1970s, at a time when wispy foreign-born ballerinas were the rage. Lady Gaga’s pointe shoes, punk-ballet tutus in ‘Dance & Fashion’ exhibit Yet who then would have anticipated that January would bring two other ballerina performances of comparable luster? Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z No jumping, no heavy lifting — and that includes ballerinas, whom he might be tempted to heave in a rehearsal. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty His classical variations are high-octane sprints; he lifts ballerinas like they’re feathers. Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Felicity Jones was dancing, having taken the precaution of coming as an upmarket ballerina. A Shambolic, Kind of Fabulous Oscars Ceremony 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But there’s no such thing as a smooth-sailing life in ballet, not even for Boodoo, who in many ways was born to be a ballerina. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z "Black Swan," which tells of a young ballerina discovering herself as a person and a dancer, took in $8.4 million and pushed its total ticket sales to just over $61 million. "True Grit" wrangles top spot at box offices 2011-01-10T02:04:56Z There would still be ballerinas — but they would no longer reign supreme, as linchpins of ballet’s construction and its meanings. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z When Ms. Boylston replaced Ms. Osipova on Monday, she, already an exciting jumper, danced on a yet larger scale and found a few moments of rubato that added touches of ballerina authority. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Production of ‘La Bayadère’ 2012-05-29T22:16:53Z Think of Tory Burch's ballerina flats, which not only made that designer a household name but also even richer than she already was. On the Runway Blog: The Best and Brightest 2012-06-22T11:00:20Z One ballerina, who would speak only on condition of anonymity, said she had squirmed out of her arrangement as tactfully as possible in the hope of avoiding a confrontation. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z It is a good job he's got the roller-skating ballerina to keep us all entertained - although the weeping willows in the background look lovely. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z LaBeouf, raised in L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood, the only child of a Vietnam veteran and ballerina, is the first artist in his family to make it. Shia LaBeouf: 'I have these yearnings to do different things' 2011-06-27T23:31:38Z Late in the “Diamonds” pas de deux, the ballerina evades her partner while the strings play tremolos. Understanding Balanchine’s ‘Jewels,’ a Perfect Introduction to Ballet 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The tulip is one of nature’s free spirits, a ballerina. The Dutch ambassador’s tulip party: A 400-year-old passion still burns 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The world's most famous ballerina, back in the 1920s she famously crossed the globe in a series of exhausting and exhaustive tours. This week's new dance 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z The whole evening was unraveling along with the ballerina’s costume, replaced by a screwball comedy. In ballet, conductors are the dancers’ guardian angels 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z I got interested in making ballerinas because they are very aware that their time is so limited. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The horrified audience heard the ballerina moaning through her body mic before she was rushed to the hospital. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Each leaves me thinking she’ll be better suited to other ballerina roles; but who knows? New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z I wanted to explore a moving body of 15 men, partially because the resource was at my fingertips, and juxtapose that with one single leading ballerina. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It is also epitomized by three international ballerinas performing next door at Lincoln Center as part of American Ballet Theater’s current season. Dance Review: Ballet Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-06-21T22:00:03Z It was fun for a while, and then one day in a crossover class for actors and dancers, he met a ballerina named Vanessa. Former pastor Charlie Pollock returns to the stage in Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ The line is more shocking for the vaporous, ultra-femme falsetto in which she delivers it — as if the ballerina inside a music box opened her mouth and sang. Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Though onstage she favors dramatic, sculptural costumes, that day she resembled a ballerina out on a bodega run in a black hoodie and sweatpants. If It’s All Going to Hell, Rina Sawayama Can’t Wait to See You There 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z George Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. " is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. English National Ballet ? review 2011-03-24T22:00:02Z In its early years, “Chaconne” was a vehicle for Ms. Farrell and no other ballerina; in recent years, its heroine has usually been danced without inspiring luster. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “Don’t get too comfortable,” Tory Dobrin, the company’s artistic director, instructed the assembled ballerinas. The Gimlet Eye: History Moves in Tutus and Greasepaint 2010-12-29T22:32:59Z In it, a “classical” couple is pitted against a “modern” pair, then they change partners, and the ballerina dances a long fluid pas de deux with the faunlike modern-dance man. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z What Meshel-Dillman, who was a child ballerina, showcases best is the collaborative spirit, the community that arises around children's artistic pursuits. 'Getting to the Nutcracker' is a corps story without a dramatic core 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Before that happened, he’d discovered a profound artistic affinity with Osipova, a thrillingly unpredictable Russian ballerina renowned for her lightness and high jump. Review | ABT’s David Hallberg and Natalia Osipova give ‘Giselle’ a sensual charge 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z “Black Swan” is no more about the behavior of ballerinas than its central pretext, “Swan Lake,” is about the habits of birds. The Oscars: Natalie Portman Embraces Monster and Victim 2010-12-31T20:48:10Z The seven solo variations are still associated with the ballerinas of the original 1956 cast. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z An icon of the stage, Makarova was beloved for her grandeur and spontaneity, the same qualities that led her, in 1970, to become the first Russian ballerina to escape the Soviets. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z A Lothario of an accordion player is thwarted by a tractor driver in a dog suit, while the ballerina’s male partner dresses as a Sylphide to deceive an old man. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z Sometimes this work’s dancers have simultaneous solos that reflect the different writing for the piano’s left and right hands; and one extended male solo ends, strikingly, with the ballerina entering and waiting on point. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z J R, who once wheat-pasted pictures on the streets of France, also wheat-pasted enormous ballerinas’ legs and toe shoes on the outside of the Koch Theater. A Giant Photo Connects Fans to Ballet Stars 2014-01-27T03:25:00Z Ms. Dvorovenko portrays May, a ballerina, at ages 20, 40 and 60. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z And he was astounded by the way the forward-and-backward steps for the ballerina in the second movement answered both Ravel’s rhythm and melody. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z He argues with his wife, the principal ballerina, who slaps the choreographer and angrily storms out only to crash her car into a tree, from which she is thrown and killed. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Dressed in elegant evening wear, looking like classical ballerinas at a cocktail party, they were mingling with well-wishers. 2010-02-06T04:33:00Z Unnecessarily bright smiles grew more tense as the ballet proceeded; the lead ballerinas seemed guarded. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Moments of it are ghastly: At one point four ballerinas, lying on their backs, extend their stretched legs vertically in the air and twiddle them in entrechats. Review: British and American Ballets Showcase Youthful Blend of Style and Skill 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Later, ballerinas “were more of a fur coat and diamonds phenomenon,” he said. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z If ever there was a ballerina born to dance the Firebird, it’s Natalia Osipova — she of the spectacular jump and sizzling stage presence — who will perform on Thursday. The Week Ahead: June 17 — 23 2012-06-15T18:42:32Z In the 1890s, Mathilde Kschessinska, one of Russia's most celebrated ballerinas, was as famous for the wealth she accumulated from her titled "protectors" as she was for her actual dancing. How ballet fell for flower-giving 2012-12-18T20:00:01Z Around me, ham hocks hang like bovine ballerinas from the ceiling, while gregarious Spaniards lean over each other to shout their next tapa order to the bartender. Spain’s tapas: Tasty and convivial 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s hard to tear yourself away from New York City Ballet just now, in particular from its many excellent ballerinas. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z On Sunday afternoon, before the ballerina Jennie Somogyi’s farewell performance at New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater, I found myself asking friends present for the occasion for their memories. Review: Jennie Somogyi Stirs Memories in Her City Ballet Goodbye 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z As unsightly and gawky as the $5,500 machine is, it's what Petrozzi credits with helping her through the years as a ballerina. Performing artists stay fit between auditions 2010-08-17T16:10:00Z The protagonist is so busy frolicking naked with his ballerina doll that he doesn’t realize his students have stopped attending class, the police are raiding their dormitories and election candidates are being disqualified without reason. ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Her ballerina days were over, but she didn’t have much time to lament the loss. Taking Flight: Julie Kent at Washington Ballet 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Reunited now in New York, the two ballerinas discussed the burdens and blessings of the dancer’s life, which Caron compared to “being a convict” and Cope compared to “being in the Army.” A Parisienne in America 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z “I remember rushing to the attic and pretending I was living somewhere else,” she said, “dancing around the living room, pretending I was a ballerina.” With Armory Show, the World Is Catching Up to Carrie Mae Weems 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z There’s a touching solo where Isabella Boylston, dancing with the distinctiveness that marks a true ballerina, steps to and fro on point while sometimes flexing her feet; it’s the most human moment in the ballet. American Ballet Theater Opens its Fall Season 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The legendary ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, who danced "The Nutcracker" many times, including opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov, titled her autobiography "Dancing on my Grave." Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z She danced it well then; writing in The New York Times, Anna Kisselgoff deemed her a “confident young ballerina” and praised her “swanlike beauty.” Dance Review: City Ballet?s Yvonne Borree Hangs Up Her Toeshoes 2010-06-07T21:06:00Z In the first “Emeralds” solo, a ballerina extends and withdraws her arms with a quality both crisp and perfumed that’s exclusive to that piece. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z Still, in neither case were we seeing a ballerina with resources to spare. Critic?s Notebook: Change Is a Constant Theme in City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? 2011-12-27T23:30:58Z Still, her combination of technical dazzle and assertiveness remains an effective demonstration of the forceful individuality a Balanchine ballerina can display. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Without McBride’s teaching, “I wouldn’t be the ballerina I am today,” Mearns says, describing “the joy she had every day. It was such a joyous experience.” Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet Yet, in the ballroom, she’s at once the work’s prima ballerina, to a thrilling but baffling degree. ‘Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But she also wants to dance as a professional ballerina. From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z The teenage circus girls receive the customary shower of oranges from an appreciative audience; the similarly young ballerina demonstrates fifth position with something of the hauteur of Degas’s little dancer. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z The stamina required for ballerinas might shock people unfamiliar with the art. Performing artists stay fit between auditions 2010-08-17T16:10:00Z When the company initially announced the partnership, some responded on social media with skepticism: A ballerina is arguably an athlete, but a model? Watch Gisele Bündchen Kick Butt in This New Under Armour Commercial 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Stephanie Dabney, a principal dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem who became an international star and a role model for aspiring Black ballerinas, died on Sept. 28 at a nursing home in Manhattan. Stephanie Dabney, Electrifying Prima Ballerina, Dies at 64 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Tamara Karsavina, Diaghilev’s Giselle and a famously intelligent ballerina, once said, “Leave the stage before the stage leaves you.” Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z One ballerina, in particular, grasped every opportunity with skill, pride, musicality and heart: Isabella Boylston. Savoring the Spectrum of American Ballet Theater’s Rich Season 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z In a few years, though, Boodoo, whose mother is African American and whose father is Trinidadian, would see her dance dreams embodied in Copeland, the first African American principal ballerina at American Ballet Theatre. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The actress plays an enigmatic ballerina who arrives in the life of an ambitious congressman, played by Matt Damon, with unexpected results. Acting with a tennis ball 2010-12-24T08:50:01Z It was a festival created to honor five Native American ballerinas, all hailing from Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Most impressive and affecting was how this bold and vividly physical ballerina made herself seem to evaporate into the dawn at the ballet’s end. Dance Review: ‘Giselle’ Stars Natalia Osipova in a Cinema Broadcast 2014-01-29T21:28:25Z Baby girl's bags were packed with snacks, toilet seat covers, a change of clothes and the tiniest ballerina slippers anyone has ever seen. My preschooler's first police stop: I'm embarrassed — but not for us 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Watching Phelan perform the second movement of “Symphony in C” and seeing her step into the part as “this extremely regal ballerina,” Woodward said. What Is the Power of Unity Phelan’s Dancing? ‘I’m Clay.’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “As a ballerina,” she says, “I was always the boss. I was the boss of the performance.” When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Most surprising of all, the company’s senior ballerina, Maria Kowroski, in performances the previous week, conquered the role more completely than ever, with a wealth of fresh musical nuances. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Vishneva, who also brings to the role great personal beauty, has a fullness to her dance tone and a luscious sheen that set her apart from almost every other ballerina today. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z The latest sighting of the ballerina is as a guest artist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, a pairing that makes sense. Alessandra Ferri Performs a Work by Lar Lubovitch 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Did you admire the sustained balances on point of those two ballerinas before the intermission? American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z An enormous cello on which a ballerina rests her leg while bending to adjust her shoe almost fills one half of the composition while the other half is occupied by a cluster of young women. Exhibition Review: Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master 2011-09-23T12:00:07Z For a ballerina, a point shoe is a second skin. Sara Mearns, an Explorer Way Beyond Ballet 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, a star of the New York City Ballet and a wife of George Balanchine, was an accomplished cook. Guggenheim Talk Focuses on Legendary Dancer’s Cookbook 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Since I almost always do cavalier roles — attending, presenting and dancing opposite a ballerina — the incompatibility is most pronounced when I think of how to be a partner. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z On the field, the hedgehogs do not take to their cheerleader outfits, which more closely resemble ballerina costumes with their pink tulle. Puppy Bowl: Cuteness becomes a cash cow 2013-02-01T03:34:14Z She enforced a crippling either/or logic: either family or ballet, either be black or be a ballerina. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z By contrast, as I remember from a New York exhibition decades ago, one of Cornell’s final muses was the Balanchine ballerina Allegra Kent. Dance This Week: New Books and Exhibitions 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z I’m Latina, so I have a booty, and it’s hard for me to keep in ballerina shape. Just Asking: Francesca Dugarte, ballet dancer That was before Mitchell, the first Black principal at City Ballet, started Dance Theater and cultivated dozens of Black ballerinas like Johnson and Graves, along with Lydia Abarca-Mitchell, Stephanie Dabney and many more. Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Balanchine's profligately inventive choreography creates a palatial dance world of ballrooms, corridors, secret places and dreams, through which the male lead pursues his ballerina. Mariinsky Ballet: Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-05T15:12:21Z Girls have this dream of being a ballerina, and obviously they’re going to try and see it through until it doesn’t work. Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I have seen other ballerinas this year deliver Liberty Bell with panache and swagger, but the elasticity she finds within a phrase — anticipating here, lingering there — makes her the most individually perfumed. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Despite a sweet scene between Ms. Copeland and Raven Wilkinson, a black ballerina who performed in the 1950s, the film isn’t particularly illuminating about race and ballet. Review: ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ Chronicles the Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z And yet, the men and women interviewed for this article agreed that the men’s burden in most any version of “The Nutcracker” is nothing compared with what the ballerinas go through. What’s it like to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s a marathon of pain. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Mearns, 31, is no polite ballerina, but an all-or-nothing dancer who reacts on the spot through her deep connection with music. This New York City Ballet Dancer Has a New Role: Being Bad 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Rachel Cameron in the late 1940s, when she was principal ballerina with the Australian Ballet Society. Rachel Cameron obituary 2011-04-07T17:23:37Z Other ballerinas will take on this role at the Kennedy Center Opera House, where the company performs through Saturday night. In “Romeo and Juliet,” the Washington Ballet unleashes a star 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Three years into her enviable life at City Ballet, the unthinkable occurred, at least insofar as a teenage ballerina, feeling immortal, might experience it. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ The museum has also brought out ballerinas’ makeup tubes, castanets and satiny shoes, as well as paperwork that survived the Ballets Russes archival diaspora. Antiques: A Ballet?s Costumes Take Center Stage 2010-09-23T21:11:00Z "I do have, I guess, a more womanly type than the stereotypical ballerina." Her, fat? Ballerina tells critic she's just fine 2010-12-14T00:46:04Z “There in front of me were Black ballerinas,” Sells said during a video call in April. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z She's also a classically trained ballerina who served as the director of a ballet museum for seven years. Art museum to open in rough section of Detroit 2011-06-09T18:45:14Z But the Trocks, as they are usually called, also pay loving homage to the cult of the ballerina and faithful attention to choreography, often performing historical gems little seen elsewhere. Radical Turn for the Trocks? Youngest Sylph 2010-12-09T22:57:00Z The men land full-force on their knees and shinbones, spin to a blur on their kneecaps and stamp elegantly on their toes, knuckles bent under, less like ballerinas and more like restless stallions. In Sukhishvili Georgian Ballet, elegant tradition meets modern energy 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s either tube socks or those ballerina socks. What 9 Instagram Employees Wore to Their New Offices 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z And Ms. Boulder said that though she liked the movie, it wasn’t a dance film or an accurate portrayal of a ballerina. First-Time Queen?s Double Demands 2011-02-13T01:06:06Z This more conventional production is a fine showcase for ENB's promising depth of talent, from Ivanov's mass moonlit choreography for the corps de ballet of swans to the double ballerina role of Odette/Odile. This week's new theatre & dance 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z She turned down the job, later becoming the first black ballerina to dance with the Metropolitan Opera. From Misty Copeland: Adjustments, Tips and Inspiration 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The spin-brake-stop pirouette flourishes of the ballerina’s cadenza entrance have never looked more brilliantly commanding in my experience. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Who is to judge the twilight of a ballerina? Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z In the old footage, some of which she found on YouTube, Benko drew inspiration from a zany little dance in which Brice wiggles her arms and shuffles her feet like a wannabe ballerina. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z At the Kirov, Lavrovsky’s ballerina was Galina Ulanova; their “Romeo” success was such that Stalin installed them both at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as resident stars of what had become the national company. Romeo (and Juliet), How Many Art Thou? 1 Ballet Score, Many Stagings 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “I want to be seen as a ballerina,” said Mr. Johnsey, an American, who identifies as gender fluid but uses male pronouns. He Wants to Be a Ballerina. He Has Taken the First Steps. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z But then, what else should a prima ballerina wear while hunting trout? Stars go wild in the countryside 2011-08-06T23:05:32Z The point of the Studio Company is to learn by doing: how to hold a ballerina’s waist without gripping, how to play with musicality, how to imbue a role with drama without going overboard. ABT Studio Company Offers ‘Le Corsaire’ Excerpts 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z This vivid performance reintroduced her as a future ballerina of note: It’s one thing to be technically strong, which she is; it’s yet another to have musicality and phrasing. Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z For a 1967 ballet called “Jewels,” you might expect ballerinas dazzling the stage like gleaming gewgaws. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z MacMillan cast her in the ballerina role of his 1965 piece The Song of the Earth, surely the most transparently emotional and musically responsive of his works. MoveTube: Marcia Haydée – the definitive Tatiana in an ocean of Onegins 2013-01-18T14:42:17Z Martha Graham and Members of Her Company Standing to the right of the famed choreographer Martha Graham is the ballerina Sallie Wilson. Perpetual Motion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Subtle, sleek and experienced, this is a world-class ballerina at the absolute peak of her game. Romeo and Juliet ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:42Z In addition to being a fine actress, Vikander is trained as a ballerina, so she's capable of unsettlingly precise movements that convincingly position her as a combination of human and machine. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Portman was nominated as a ballerina losing her grip on reality in "Black Swan." 'The King's Speech' gets 12 Oscar nominations 2011-01-25T14:00:55Z I expect this superb technician to illuminate aspects of the music and choreography, but can she rise to the ballerina challenge and carry ballet, company and audience? The Watch List: American Ballet Theater?s Spring 2010-05-13T20:58:00Z When the next variation, Sanguinic, approaches its close, with a ballerina lifted around the stage in a circuit of outstretched and forward-looking lifts, she seems to be circumnavigating the globe in a single phrase. Dance Review: At Lincoln Center, the Eternal Radical, Balanchine 2010-05-03T22:08:00Z In one of the photos on display, ballerina Diana Adams is in mid-whirl in Tudor’s “Pillar of Fire,” firmly balanced on pointe though her skirt flies about her. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame Next week, Ms. Kent and Ms. Reyes, and other principal dancers, take turns as “Giselle,” one of the great dramatic ballerina roles. Dance Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Both he and Mr. Gomes provided the most musically illuminating dancing of the two performances; both of them gave their ballerinas beautiful support. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z “That’s my lovely mum,” she says, pointing to a black and white picture of a determined young girl with a Louise Brooks bob, holding a ballerina pose. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Mead, although a fine ballerina, is perhaps too earthy for the part. Jessica Lang's vision is far-reaching in company's program at Irvine Barclay Theatre 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Then, as is now, it was fitting: “Swan Lake” requires a ballerina to be vulnerable. A Ballerina’s Nightmare: ‘Am I More Than Just a Dancer?’ 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They will go, rather, to the enormous Mouse King, the ballerinas twirling amid sparkling snowflakes, and the growing- before-our-eyes Christmas tree. Standing between 'Nutcracker' and chaos at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2010-11-26T05:01:00Z They may wear beautiful costumes and look stunning from the audience but the reality of playing a ballerina in Swan Lake involves dealing with sweat, cramp and injury on a daily basis. VIDEO: Ballet swans' backstage confusion 2011-03-08T10:11:48Z American Ballet Theater did both ballerinas proud: The occasions were special, proud, tender. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Lopez is a spectacular dancer, and he's formidably matched by Jade Solomon Curtis as the ballerina who entrances him. Spectrum Dance Theater's 'Petruchska': a tough and lurid carnival 2012-04-05T19:28:06Z To those wedded to the old image of the art form, the female dancers at City Ballet could hardly be considered “ballerinas” at all, so radically athletic was their dancing. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z “I don’t think I had the talent to be a prima ballerina,” she admits. Diane Kruger: ‘I truly believe the best is yet to come’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Gloria Steinem, 85, is a feminist icon, in trademark black leather trousers and turtleneck top, hair streaked blond and back straight as a ballerina’s. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The most fascinating ballerina of the season is likely to be another Russian. The Watch List: American Ballet Theater?s Spring 2010-05-13T20:58:00Z He speaks with abundant generosity of the many ballerinas he's partnered. Ready for his adieu: A beloved dancer reflects 2012-06-27T21:02:11Z Yet it was not until this week that these ballerinas got their first chance to star in “Swan Lake.” Swans With Glittering Technique, Aching to Break Hearts 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The former ballerina has just walked into her Upper West Side apartment on a recent evening, closely trailing the Cavapoo puppy that spent the day with her at American Ballet Theatre. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The ballerina has so many demands, rightfully so. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Two ballerinas in particular flourished in this program. Review: Ballet With Intricate Geometry, and a Lot of Fun 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z How are there so many cop shows but, as far as I can tell, only this one time-traveling teen princess ballerina show? How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s worth recalling that when it was new it seemed to be one of the ultimate achievements of Balanchine classical style, above all in its ballerina role. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z And yet it’s still not clear she is a Balanchine ballerina. New York City Ballet Performs George Balanchine Classics 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z With ballerinas, however, the opposite is often true. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Creating a ballet for the company involves so many variables: musicians, ballerinas, costume fittings, lighting. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z They are sent to live in England with an aunt and uncle, who promptly forbid prodigiously talented ballerina Anna from dancing. Girls' fiction needs to learn some new routines 2010-10-06T10:43:00Z In the accompanying music video, ballerinas twirl around Williams in a lavish setting. No 'Party Like A Russian' for Robbie Williams at World Cup opening 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In the past, he notes, ballerinas would use heavy makeup to emphasize eye sockets and shadows under the chin, which made sense under overhead lighting. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z “I just hate, more than anything, to hear ballerinas’ shoes,” the soft-spoken Ms. Peck explained. Lens Blog: At City Ballet, Footwear Is Almost as Important as Feet 2013-12-30T18:23:07Z “As a former ballerina, I’m jealous of his beautiful lines, his toe points and his effortless gracefulness,” she said of Anthony on Twitter. In Lagos, a Homegrown Ballet Academy Leaps Into the Spotlight 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The dancer, who was awarded with a CBE for his services to ballet, was a regular partner with British ballerina Margot Fonteyn in the 1970s. British ballet dancer David Wall dies of cancer aged 67 2013-06-19T13:00:41Z It’s an incredible ballerina role; she goes mad and dies, leaving the ordinary world in the first half only to return as a wili in the spectral world of the second. Emerging Through the Fog of a Pandemic With ‘Giselle’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Romantic ballerinas such as Elssler tied on their slippers with crisscrossing ribbons because that was the street style of the day. Lady Gaga’s pointe shoes, punk-ballet tutus in ‘Dance & Fashion’ exhibit Then there is the ever-present discussion — perhaps debate — around just who, exactly, qualifies as a ballerina. Misty Copeland Pirouettes Through Two Books on Dance 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z One suggestion was to expand on an act they already offered: a ballerina or violinist performing inside a clear vinyl bubble. Party Planners on Pause, Awaiting Revelry’s Return 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Among last week’s casts, two of the world’s most remarkable ballerinas were playing Tatiana at contrasting points in their careers. Review: In ‘Onegin,’ Two Star Ballerinas on Contrasting Arcs 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The evening began with George Balanchine’s “Walpurgisnacht Ballet,” in which a ballerina in full blossom seems to instruct a budding one by example. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Keynes, for example, took a lead role in a skit called Don't Be Frightened, or Pippington Park, dancing a duet with his Russian ballerina wife, Lydia Lopokova, at the conclusion of the play. Virginia Woolf's play exposes the silly side of the Bloomsbury group 2012-05-23T16:01:15Z Here the ballerina repeatedly hurls her leg up before her, then folds it down and falls forward. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z “The ballerinas are a very close ensemble,” she said. How ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Survived the Pandemic 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Now, instead of counting sheep to get myself to sleep, I imagine ballerinas running down a spiral staircase. Garbage’s Shirley Manson Thrives on Unapologetic Heroines 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “Black Swan” is not about a prima ballerina, but an aspiring one, who travels on the New York subway and commutes to and from a cluttered and cramped apartment she lives in with her mother. Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion 2010-09-02T12:34:00Z And its central role is further proof that Sara Mearns is our most dramatically remarkable ballerina today, with urgent qualities of need and pathos. Review: New York City Ballet’s ‘Jeux’ Lets Sara Mearns Shine 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Described in Mr. Wheeldon’s synopsis as “suspicious of the Patron’s intentions,” he “does not like the power that patrons hold over the ballerinas and knows full well that their intentions are not always honorable.” Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z All you need ask yourself is: Do I prefer my ballerinas in tutus or in ballgowns? Dancers suspended in time and space as you’ve never seen them before 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It's symbolic of the hard work it's taken to become not only a prima ballerina in the American Ballet Theater, but also the first African American ballerina to be featured as the lead in "Coppélia." Misty Copeland: A trailblazing ballerina makes the judge's table 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It's a movie called "Audition," where it's this woman who's a ballerina, and she's been viciously abused by her ballet teacher. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Erica Pereira, replacing her on short notice in the ballerina role, was sugary. Review: City Ballet’s Spring Season Includes ‘N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z In a nighttime panorama of sleeping city skyscrapers, Sempé, as he signed his work and was known universally, illuminated a ballerina in a window. Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z For ballerinas in particular, there is a mysterious transference between coach and dancer. dance: Ballet Theater?s Ballet Mistresses and Coaches 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z Still, challenging ballerinas is a City Ballet tradition and a good one. Swans With Glittering Technique, Aching to Break Hearts 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z She doesn’t grab your attention by force as some ballerinas do; instead, she draws you in quietly, by the very naturalness with which she does things. Why Are There So Many Great Argentine Dancers? 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z “Ten or 11 years ago this was just not in the cards for me,” she said, noting that she assumed she’d be encased in a “ballerina bubble.” Dancer Sara Mearns channels Isadora Duncan at awards gala 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The project included four duets by and with four contemporary choreographers who nudged Ms. Whelan in new directions after her nearly 30 years as a ballerina. Review: Chasing Wildness, and Sometimes Catching It 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes she embellishes my moves, fluttering her fingers like a silly ballerina. Doing ‘The Washing Machine’ With My 84-Year-Old Mother 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Male fans would buy diamonds and furs for their favourite ballerinas – and would also expect more in return. How ballet fell for flower-giving 2012-12-18T20:00:01Z But the collection also included ballerina flats with floral -patterned perforations that reflect current casual style. Fash File: In Paris: Dior?s accessories, Lagerfeld for Hogan and Claudia Schiffer 2011-10-05T18:12:23Z An all-purpose blanket of ballerina softness dampens the comedy. Dance Review: Megan Fairchild and Tiler Peck Lead ‘Coppélia’ Casts 2014-02-17T23:17:19Z Or Barrette Lewis, the celebrated ballerina who was seeing him on the sly? Theater Review: In the Musical ‘Murder for Two,’ One Man Is Many Suspects 2013-07-26T02:00:01Z In her acting debut, Barbeau, a professional ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet, is mesmerizing in motion, and her training is obvious; she points her toes even while jogging. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The ballerina melodrama grossed $17 million from 45 markets, taking its tally to $122.6 million since its foreign campaign began on December 9. Black Swan leads foreign box office for 3rd weekend 2011-02-28T01:15:22Z Meanwhile the woman-behind-the-great-man genre welcomes George Balanchine and a ballerina wife into the fold. New Books by Sadie Jones, Laurent Binet and More 2012-05-30T21:07:15Z Right up there with Bolshoi ballerinas and NBA shooting guards, great rock-and-roll drummers are among the most glorious creatures in our midst. The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In 2013, when she danced at the Royal Opera House in London, at 21, Roslyn Sulcas described her in The New York Times as “a ballerina whose every movement feels luminously right and true.” War Brings New Iron Curtain Down on Russia’s Storied Ballet Stages 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The “Donizetti” revival likewise highlights many of the steps and constructions that are most peculiar to this ballet; and Kendra Mitchell’s sparkle in the ballerina role revealed its gleeful wit. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z In Peck, “Little Dancer” has a gorgeous and charismatic ballerina, but not a marquee stage actress. In ‘Little Dancer,’ Susan Stroman shows the art of perseverance There’s no question that she is one of the finest ballerinas appearing in America today; some think her the finest, and last weekend I felt in no mood to contradict them. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival’s Evenings of Dance 2012-08-06T22:27:47Z The opening and closing ensembles juxtapose the ballerinas, the men and the corps de ballet in patterns that set up strangely satisfying tensions while playing all kinds of number games. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z For many people, a ballerina must also be an embodiment of the Old World. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z Smooth execution depends on a combination of timing, strength — on both sides — and the ability to sense the ballerina’s center of balance and the pull of gravity, particularly when she is on point. Wendy Whelan, Tyler Angle and Others on Collaborating 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z She has had the same locker for 30 years, carefully chosen to be far from such intimidating principal ballerinas of the 1980s as Martine Van Hamel and Cynthia Gregory. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z So isn’t it trivial to talk of a ballerina merely baring her thighs and calves? Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z At 17, in the segregated 1940s, Myers Brown got the bug to become a ballerina from a white teacher, Virginia Lingenfelder, and was the first and only Black student in Lingenfelder’s ballet club. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It results in orchids that look like monkeys, egrets, lions, owls and even a ballerina — which may be why we like orchids so much. Botanic Garden celebrates a flower once reserved for royalty 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z But Ms. Lane, a soloist in a ballerina role, met the ballet’s lofty challenges with sufficiency of skill rather than a glamorous surfeit. Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The night began with a cocktail hour complete with ballerinas, flapper girls with Afghan hounds, vodka and caviar shots and plenty of champagne. At Cannes, amfAR gala returns in movie star style 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Ms. LeCrone’s “Symphonic Études” — handsomely dressed by Freda Bromberg with beautiful color distinctions for corps, soloists, ballerina and male dancer — maintained a complex response to different components and tensions of Schumann’s music. Contrasting Gelsey Kirkland’s Troupe and Ballet Academy East 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z She, advancing on point, leads him into the wings; and he’s pulled backward by her — a classic image of the Balanchine man going where the ballerina leads without even seeing his way. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z I’ve heard old dancers say that a ballerina should leave “essences” of herself in the air as she moves on; these women certainly did. Fresh Dewdrops for New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z My mother put me in dance and gymnastics, and I wore dresses and sported hot-rolled hair just like all the other little ballerinas. Betty White on "The Golden Girls" taught me queer self-acceptance 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Degas ballerinas leap from the frame of a painting, ancient Egyptian queens arrange themselves into a hieroglyphic kickline, and warriors in medieval armor cut a rug. ‘New York Spring Spectacular’ Brings High Kicks to Radio City Music Hall 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Sonja Lapatanov, a ballet teacher and former prima ballerina at the National Ballet, said the government, which faces a general election on June 21, was putting mainstream entertainment ahead of theater, opera and dance. Performers fume as Serbia reopens but theaters remain shut 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Black girls were “too muscular” to be classical ballerinas was a common refrain spoken by acquaintances. First Position: A Documentary That Stays On Point 2012-05-03T10:45:09Z And Pat Cleveland of Harlem whirled down the stage like a delirious ballerina. ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z At myriad points with each ballerina, you could analyze the preparatory care that had been taken. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Evolves at the Royal Opera House 2014-02-25T22:34:51Z According to the changing tempo of the Brahms piece, he acts like a forlorn lover, prancing ballerina, an angry boyfriend, and an elegant ballroom dancer. LA takes baton as flagship for youth orchestras 2011-11-13T16:03:17Z It is still difficult to be a Black ballerina, said several dancers of color who were interviewed for this article. Black Ballerina, Playing a Swan, Says She Was Told to Color Her Skin 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Two principal ballerinas are leaving the company during its Metropolitan Opera season. American Ballet Theater Promotes 4 Dancers 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A few weeks ago, the ballerina Michele Wiles wrinkled her nose in concern and confusion. BalletNext and Abraham.In.Motion Experiment With Jazz 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z In Paquita, the leading ballerina has to hold the stage against four rivals, each wearing a fabulous tutu, each with a killer solo to perform. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z How would you describe the type of ballerinas in “Nightcrawlers”? A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Because Ms. Gerring loves retrograde motion, it was fascinating to watch the two ballerinas in to-and-fro phrases where their jumps took them backward as well as forward. Ashley Bouder and Wendy Whelan Step in New Dance Directions 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z She chose The Nutcracker ballet, and commissioned a collection of handmade ornaments depicting toys, birds and ballerina angels. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z The ballerina in neon-lime tights and killer eyeliner struts on her toes across a street in central Hong Kong. Amid upheavals, there’s good news in Hong Kong: Its ballet thrives 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z For one, he’s the right size: His height — he’s nearly 5-foot-11 — makes it possible for him to partner a variety of ballerinas. Once ‘Little Joe,’ Now a Reigning New York City Ballet Principal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Her primary concern was losing the discipline of a ballerina, which includes daily class, regimented nutrition and the pursuit of perfection. A Parisienne in America 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z And of all the ballerinas of the last century, few achieved Maria Tallchief’s artistry, a kind of conscious dreaming, a reverie with backbone. The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013) 2013-04-12T21:50:43Z Ms. Mearns — the most authoritative, Romantically dramatic and glamorous ballerina in the United States — seized on one solo diagonal of jumps as if it were the most jubilant moment in all her repertory. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z A former prima ballerina with the New York City Ballet, Ms. McBride took classes with Mr. Howard in the 1970s. David Howard, Revered Teacher of Dancers, Dies at 76 2013-08-19T00:50:27Z Many of the roles in which he cast her were designed to extend her technique and artistry and transform her into the prototype Balanchine ballerina. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z She also relishes the ability to stay open, which, for her, is what any ballerina should be in the modern age. Sara Mearns, an Explorer Way Beyond Ballet 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The tragic tale of a ballerina whose career was cut short by polio is retold in "Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun" on "American Masters." TV This Week June 15-21: 'Masterpiece Mystery!,' 'Rectify' and more 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z And there are dance-inflected looks, some that were lent impetus by the flurry of calf-length ballerina skirts on the spring runways. As Days Grow Longer, So Do Hems 2011-04-07T01:02:33Z “I hated girls,” Anastasia says at one point, casting her scorn on some wee ballerinas. | 'The Sleeping Beauty': No Sleep for a Beauty Who Seeks Adventure 2011-07-07T22:47:11Z It’s as if the ballerina is dancing on delicate porcelain, or on fairy wings; a dance of ethereal beauty and weightless joy. Why Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ is the sound of the holidays for so many of us 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “I am not a ballerina,” she once told Diaghilev. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Yakobson’s “Swan,” with the same music by Camille Saint-Saens, wears black, and the ballerina creates bent angles with her body, twists her arms and crumples awkwardly. ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Seymour was one of the greatest ballerinas I ever saw, probably the plumpest and certainly the most original. Critic?s Notebook: Judging The Bodies In Ballet 2010-12-04T00:15:00Z Ms. Part’s retirement is the second departure for a principal ballerina this season. Veronika Part of American Ballet Theater Announces Her Retirement 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z The 29-year-old plays a New York ballerina whose obsession with technical perfection takes a heavy toll on mind and body. Natalie Portman earns early awards buzz for ballet drama 2010-09-02T15:58:00Z She’s the least conventional of the three ballerinas, wearing a sleeveless dress in Act I and performing the famous mad scene not with all her hair loose but with one large lock astray. Dance Review: Osipova, Vishneva and Cojocaru: 3 Giselles at Ballet Theater 2012-05-21T04:14:04Z I marveled at the up-close view of the hulking ballerinas of the sea and the power of Baja’s signature flying pancake of a fish. In Baja California, swimming with the whale sharks, and more Colin Firth took best dramatic actor for his portrayal of George VI's battles with his stutter in The King's Speech, while Natalie Portman won for her as a troubled ballerina role in Black Swan. And the award for rudeness goes to ? Ricky Gervais! 2011-01-17T19:52:58Z Later, in the main pas de deux, the lead male holds another deep plié while the ballerina stands behind him — a rare example in Balanchine of the woman steadying the man. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z Wendy Whelan, 51, a star ballerina who danced with the company for 30 years, will become City Ballet’s associate artistic director. City Ballet, Shaken by Turmoil, Chooses New Leaders 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Beginning on Monday, Ballet Theater embarks on its annual pilgrimage to the lake — “Swan Lake” — for which the company’s top ballerinas offer individual interpretations of the double role of Odette/Odile. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Eun Won Lee, 25, was a leading ballerina with the Korean National Ballet, who so idolized Kent that, knowing very little English, she left her family and homeland to move to Washington. Julie Kent, sweeping the Washington Ballet forward 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The is arguably the most famous company in the world; it all but stars in its own epic tale of fortune and failure, a story with more dramatic turns than a pirouetting prima ballerina. The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010-07-20T11:18:00Z But the 2012 awards ceremony, the biggest night of honors for the Broadway industry, offers something even more fun than singing missionaries and pint-size ballerinas: competition. ‘Newsies’ Versus ‘Once,’ and Other Tony Competitions 2012-06-07T22:01:22Z And would he recover from the shocking departure of the ballerina Natalia Osipova — a favorite partner — for a lesser-known theater in St. Petersburg, financed by a billionaire known as the Banana King? ArtsBeat: A Dancer Sees His Art Differently From a Russian Stage 2012-04-25T16:15:05Z The occasion of our encounter was in 2011 when he and Tiler Peck were rehearsed by the ballerina Merrill Ashley in Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” for a Balanchine Foundation recording. Jonathan Stafford Bids Farewell to City Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z His book, “Ballerina Project,” is a collection of his subsequent efforts pairing other ballerinas with locations ranging from subway stations to beach piers to urban bridges. The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But when it came my turn, the teacher — a vegan ballerina — blurted, “I can’t lift you. I’ll break my back,” then walked away. How I became fat: “It’s tough to be a bad-ass girl in a dainty world” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The repeated joke about one stepsister’s halitosis is lousy, anyway; when applied to an important ballerina, it’s doubly irksome. Dance Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s Take on Prokofiev’s ‘Cinderella’ 2013-05-07T21:35:23Z This year one of the most celebrated of all American ballerinas, Maria Tallchief, died; her prime was from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z She is taking puberty inhibitors and training to be a ballerina. Six new films that could be Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z This admirable ballerina has never looked so glamorous, so sumptuously glowing as here; Joan Boada partners her excellently and casts plenty of light on his own. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z It revealed Webre at the height of his choreographic powers, featuring a company bristling with well-tempered energy and, most especially, a ballerina with the dramatic capacity to bring the whole fantasy to life. Enchanting ‘Sleepy Hollow’ awakens the best of the Washington Ballet 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Two singers dressed as Radio City ushers start their own duo; a ballerina dances in an illuminated tutu around Columbus Circle; a woman in front of Carnegie Hall sings an aria from “Carmen.” Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z She is, you see, a very prima Russian ballerina. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z They can be seen as a liberating force for the ballerina, who in this instant doesn’t need a man to save her, to support her or to understand her. A show of virtuosos, ‘Swan Lake’ shimmers with strong women 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Fitch turns it into a dance to show Ms. Mearns completing her transformation into a ballerina. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z The amalgam of ballerina finesse and daft diva antics is brilliant, unsettling, riveting: the epitome of Trocks style. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Villella didn’t know much about partnering when he started dancing with McBride; he was still figuring out how to keep a ballerina from toppling over. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet In her next life, Ms. Roitfeld revealed that she would like to be a ballerina, ballet being, she maintained, the last pure art form, "with no Nike or Coca Cola," calling the shots. On the Runway Blog: Frank Talk from Carine Roitfeld 2012-11-06T23:22:42Z Among his clients was Violette Verdy, the New York City Ballet ballerina who was a child prodigy when he met her in a ballet class in Paris before World War II. Paul Szilard, Dance Impresario, Dies at 100 2013-08-05T02:25:52Z Fragile, haunted Blanche: You can picture her as a wispy ballerina. ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But despite the pain, Larsen conveys, through her words, the glory of the body in motion from the perspective of what she calls an everyday, or a blue-collar, ballerina. What Is an Everyday Ballerina? A Luminous New Memoir Tells All. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The photographs feature stars of stage, screen and television; national leaders; a prima ballerina; writers; and other creative types. Last Chance: Philippe Halsman?s Jumpers at Laurence Miller 2010-05-23T23:30:00Z When Le Clercq, known as Tanny, became the latest in a string of Balanchine’s muses, she established what became the prototypical Balanchine prima ballerina: phenomenally long-legged, gracefully athletic, passionately committed. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z Back home, Lee was the National Ballet’s youngest principal ballerina and a dance celebrity. She was South Korea’s superstar ballerina. Now, she’s given it up to try to make it in America. 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z A good thing, too, she added: The ballerina had ruled the roost for far too long. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Every freshman art student knows that Edgar Degas adored dancers; roughly half his life’s work depicted ballerinas. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z And there the subliminal squabbling stopped, for we swapped ballerinas from time to time and we loved them both. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z In that role, Verdy said, Fonteyn showed a hitherto unsuspected sensuousness, a quality that Petit knew how to evoke in his ballerinas. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The work, which concludes its run this weekend, comprises a partially painted canvas and, in front of it, occasional improvisations by a ballerina and a violinist. Dance Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:06:26Z These dancers were attracted to Kent as an iconic ballerina and a sensitive and respectful collaborator. Julie Kent, sweeping the Washington Ballet forward 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The triumphant closing lines, “This is the dancer, /bold like the sun, /a prima ballerina/ in 1951” ring both victorious and beautiful. Review | Four new books to inspire young readers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z One ballerina after another performed a light, buoyant solo. Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Collins persevered to become a leading ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera. Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The regimen caused her to tear a ligament, dislocate her shoulder and vow never to put on ballerina slippers again. Oscar snubs: "Inception" director, Duvall, Kunis 2011-01-26T00:09:02Z The pandemic also made Phelan question whether her time as a ballerina was coming to an end; she has a bachelor’s degree in economics and was looking around at finance job openings. City Ballet Promotes Dancers Amid Veteran Departures 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Natalie Portman claimed the best actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a young ballerina who grows into womanhood in "Black Swan." "King's Speech" and tradition triumph at Oscars 2011-03-01T01:17:18Z The music is from Gounod’s opera “Faust”; in this Balanchine created — for Suzanne Farrell — a prima ballerina role of heroically inflamed rapture and powerfully packed phrases. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z Certainly, Ms. Murphy is one — yet what woman today more completely illustrates the contradictions of “American” and “ballerina”? U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z “Les Rendezvous” is like a high-society garden party, and elsewhere its ballerina is a virtuoso, doing complex pirouettes on point, rapid footwork, twirling jumps. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Celebrated by the Sarasota Ballet 2014-05-05T21:49:58Z The mother of Margot Fonteyn, who was known as the Black Queen, trailed after the ballerina, even on company tours abroad, acting as a composite of a personal assistant, lady’s maid, and nineteenth-century chaperone. Sergei Polunin’s Dance Mom 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Other ballerina touches: a line of colored perfume bottles on the shelf of her lavatory, and photos of her and Barbee and other ABT dancers against the walls, waiting to be hung. Julie Kent, sweeping the Washington Ballet forward 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z This season, the mood was “green” — literally and figuratively — as gardening, with its sensible shoes and squishy bags, was the theme; and green was the preferred color for Tod’s signature pebble-soled loafers and ballerina flats. Special Report: Fashion: Extras With Artistry 2010-09-28T17:50:00Z Can a ballerina represent local or national characteristics in her dancing? U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z The other man wears a black velvet dress—and hovering over his outstretched hand is a tiny ballerina in first position. The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Holding indelible balances with a glittering sense of self, she was sensuous, and powerfully so, like a modern ballerina who has grown up in the era of #MeToo and learned a thing or two. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Some of the ballerinas wore woolens and heeled character shoes, while others donned white tulle and fairy wings. New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z At a matinée a few days earlier, a much younger ballerina, Isabella Boylston, débuted in the same role. Dancing as Juliet, Young and Old 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The Russian ballerina Diana Vishneva, a principal with American Ballet Theater since 2005, will give her farewell performances with the company, at the Metropolitan Opera House, on June 19 and June 23, 2017. Diana Vishneva to Leave American Ballet Theater in June 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Police say muggers punched a Russian ballerina in the face and took her pointe shoes while she was returning home from a performance in New York City. NY thieves mug Russian ballerina, nab pointe shoes 2010-06-16T19:54:00Z The role of Tatiana, in particular, is a fine dramatic opportunity for its ballerina as the character matures from romantic innocent to a conflicted society woman. This week's new dance 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z She would not return until 1975, when she appeared in New York as a guest ballerina with American Ballet Theater. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z All four were remarkably well prepared; while making their ballerinas shine, they came through all the partnering hurdles without mishap. 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Vishneva, one of the world’s major ballerinas, is justly famed for her exquisitely mobile back and arms, her fluid lyricism and effortlessly light jump. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z Balanchine choreography can abound in hovering off-balance moments when the ballerina slows down time itself. Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z The moment was made more poignant by the absence, for the first time in company history, of a young Finnish ballerina coming up to replace her. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z In 1957, Ms. Grey became the first European ballerina in the Soviet era to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Beryl Grey, Acclaimed British Ballerina, Is Dead at 95 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Emma turned to trucking after a knee injury stopped her becoming a ballerina. TV review: MotherTruckers; Bullets, Boots and Bandages; Inside Men 2012-02-09T23:10:01Z But Washington’s elite social world can pivot faster than a prima ballerina. Washington’s establishment hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z In preparation for last September’s shows, roughly another dozen catwalk hopefuls hit Aerospace High Performance Center, the spare, airy gym in the West Village that Mr. Olajide owns with the former ballerina Leila Fazel. Getting Models Into Fighting Shape 2013-02-06T19:57:04Z Mr. Lubovitch is in the mood to tell stories this season; Ms. Ferri is one of the most cherished dramatic ballerinas of our time. Alessandra Ferri Performs a Work by Lar Lubovitch 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Misty Copeland, one of the most famous ballerinas in the world even before she became ABT’s first African American principal ballerina, made history here last spring. What the Washington Ballet needs in a new director 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z “Boxers and ballerinas — they both start with ‘b’,” Ahrens quips readily. From ‘Ragtime’ to ‘Rocky’ to ‘Dancer’: Flaherty and Ahrens, together 30 years The ballerina began to dance on point and with full turnout of the body, thus suggesting ideal and transcendent qualities. Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z Only in the final “Twin Cities” section did Ms. Mack suggest — just by being herself, an authentic ballerina — how ballet might express something more urgent and original. Dance Review: Ailey Program Moves to Duke Ellington Works 2013-12-17T21:54:02Z Sometimes you learn this the hard way, Ms. Jung said, describing a boned corset, created for the ballerina Julie Kent, that broke into pieces during a rehearsal. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z When the Bolshoi presented its first production of Balanchine’s “Jewels” trilogy in 2012, she won the prestigious ballerina role in its closing work, “Diamonds”; she also danced this in the company’s 2013 London season. In the Temple Dancer’s Story, 3 Important Russian Debuts 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z She worried that her aquiline profile was too sharp, her body too angular, that she wasn’t pretty enough to be a ballerina. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Bianca Marques' debut on the Rio calendar opened with some fine footwork by a ballerina, who pirouetted at the top of the runway between two gilded candlesticks to a soundtrack of Space Age blips. Rio gets a Parisian makeover at Maria Bonita Extra 2012-01-13T03:31:03Z Tiler Peck was his ballerina in this “Theme”; at one of their several curtain calls, she suddenly embraced him in a hug. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Gone are the days when you could choose animal art or ballerina bedding without a blink from your little ones. Back-to-school: Expert picks for teen bedroom decor Other ballerinas have also been in full bloom this spring. New York City Ballet Is in Limbo, but in Bloom 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z There’s a moment when the two dancers are side by side, holding hands above their heads, and the ballerina’s foot rests on her partner’s shoulder. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z He had an absolutely perfect lob, and after Ashton’s “Birthday Offering,” which has seven ballerinas, he would throw these little lace-surrounded bouquets at them, and they would land precisely at the feet of each dancer. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In 2017, the year Melania Trump glided down the grand staircase as ballerinas danced to “The Nutcracker Suite,” she also mingled with kids assembling gumdrop trees and coloring holiday cards. Jill Biden’s first White House Christmas brings back a warmer, simpler vibe 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z I was super in love with it but it became evident I’d never become a prima ballerina, I didn’t have the right body. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z “We start classical dance at the age of 8. By our late teenage years, we’re getting recurring injuries,” said ballerina Heloise Jocqueviel. Paris Opera ballerinas, who retire at 42, kick up a fuss over Macron pension plans 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Although Watson lifts and supports Nunez in a basically traditional mode, their partnership is not about male muscle power facilitating airy ballerina grace. MoveTube: Wayne McGregor's Infra 2013-01-31T12:34:56Z On returning to New York, she took her place in 1948 as ballerina with Ballet Society, the group formed by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein that eventually became New York City Ballet. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z She still teaches ballet, and in one scene talks casually with Izzy, a ballerina friend, about “Serenade”, “Firebird” and “Diamonds.” Dance This Week: New Books and Exhibitions 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z She is a transcendent ballerina, capable of reaching the sublime, but her inner torment and aspirations drive her in compelling, unforeseeable ways. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z Collins became the Metropolitan Opera’s first African American prima ballerina. Review | Four new books to inspire young readers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “It was absolutely ridiculous. I had 18 months behind me of training and I was dancing principal roles with a leading ballerina,” Danton told the Hattiesburg American in 2019. Danton, who taught ballet until late in life, dies at 102 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Or why the recent video of a retired ballerina with Alzheimer's disease being spontaneously brought back to her past through music went viral. Why we’re obsessed with music from our youth 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Unity Phelan, the most elegantly and glamorously poetic of the young generation now ascending to ballerina roles, danced the second ballerina in “Emeralds” for the first time in a dreamy, rapt murmur on Sept. 19. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z We’re ready for more of this singular ballerina, no matter what she wants to do. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev make magic in "Solo For Two" 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Each is a redoubtable partner whose effect on both resident and guest ballerinas usually inspires. Critic?s Notebook: Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season 2011-07-10T22:01:07Z “I wasn’t the ballerina type, and I didn’t get offered a place in the company,” she said. A Ballet ‘Jane Eyre’? Reader, She Dances With Him 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z It would be remiss, in mentioning so many international stars at ABT, not to note Gillian Murphy, the company's great American ballerina. One more emotional farewell ends strong ABT season 2012-07-10T18:53:10Z It's not her fault she didn't have the technique; she's an actress, not a ballerina. When did actors stop doing their own dancing? 2011-01-20T21:30:00Z Last year Alastair Macaulay, chief dance critic of The New York Times, called Jeanette “one of the world’s most marvelous ballerinas.” Patricia and Jeanette Delgado, Sisters in Miami City Ballet 2013-04-23T22:12:30Z "In her studio I committed to becoming a ballerina," Tallchief wrote. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z Ms. Murphy, the most experienced of these ballerinas and most reliable in each facet of the complex role, nevertheless plays it with a particular innocence, making Aurora both wide-eyed and serious. Review: A ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Revival Rich in Details and Rewards 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z One of the greatest 20th century ballerinas, Alonso used her star power to make a sometimes elitist art form popular on her Caribbean island, forging the world’s largest ballet school with a unique bravura style. Alicia Alonso, Cuba's ballet legend, dies at age 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The crowd included bare-chested men wearing jeans and neckerchiefs and women in bikini tops, ballerina skirts and furry leggings. Seattle impresario Chad Anderson at epicenter of electronic dance music 2012-06-20T03:17:03Z A teacher is a teacher, whether male or female, a novelist is a novelist, but a ballerina is distinguishable from a male dancer. It’s time for gender-free pronouns | Katharine Whitehorn 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z We have a fascination with the tiny fraction of people who stand on the other side of the line that separates life from art: the grand master, the prima ballerina. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z One might guess that from her self-possession at age 5 to whirling around the stage in her 20s wearing feathers and a brilliant smile, she’s followed the standard ballerina route. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The nine petals sum to perfection, so I figure the whole for #10.The flower is a petal unto itself, one in a hillspread array of Russian ballerinas. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z It could have been a cheap irony or even a betrayal of Duncan, who considered ballet her enemy, to cast a famed ballerina like Ms. Mearns in her work. The Best Dance of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z “If there is more than one ballerina, either all get flowers, or none.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Her springtime beauty is perfect for this piece; it’s impossible not to wish the company would give her successive performances of at least one central Balanchine non-”Nutcracker” ballerina role to develop her authority. Critic’s Notebook: Three Men Leap Forward at City Ballet 2014-02-11T22:31:39Z She was smitten by the theater as a three-year-old when her grandmother took her to see ballerina Anna Pavlova. Celeste Holm dies at 95 after a career in films and Broadway musicals 2012-07-15T18:10:14Z Unseen by him, a ballerina rolls her eyes. ‘Bolshoi Babylon’: Ballet’s dark side meets Kremlin politics 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Claim to Fame Ms. Towley is known for her hypnotic and improvisational hip-hop dance moves that dart, jiggle and bounce with prima ballerina grace. ‘Lemon’ Dancer Mette Towley Finds a Bigger Stage 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z With the mime, “less is more,” says Sterling Hyltin, a principal ballerina who is scheduled to dance the leading role in Washington. Peter Martins, dipping into his past while bounding into the future 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z They do wear well-cut linen shirts and dresses, faded Breton-style striped sweaters, espadrilles, ballerina flats and every shade of beige and gray. | ?le de R? Idyll 2011-08-11T21:14:17Z Four male underwear models re-enact Perrot's legendary Pas de Quatre, in which four of the 19th century's grandest ballerinas competed to show off their talents. Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures – review 2012-05-23T17:09:58Z Julie Kent’s first season as artistic director of the Washington Ballet will be marked by contemporary masters and classics beloved over her distinguished dance career, the former ballerina said in an interview Monday. From Washington Ballet Director Julie Kent, an all-star lineup in 2017 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “For an artist, to not be on the stage, to not put your work on stage is a thing that will kill us little by little,” said Deborah Ribeiro, the theater’s lead solo ballerina. Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Quite often, a star ballerina, itching to expand her repertory, hires a choreographer from outside of ballet. Review: Ballet and Modern Dance Meet, and Ultimately Embrace 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In “Symphony in Three Movements,” a ballerina and her partner, alone onstage, lost their battle with a tricky spacing sequence and she nearly face-planted. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The color schemes are wretched, with the ballerinas’ shoes — shocking pink or vermilion — adding a note of “Red Shoes” horror to a festive situation. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z Certain bright steps happily recur; for example, when ballerinas end supported pirouettes with one leg suddenly extended high to the side. Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z Moments of traditionally male bravura and traditionally female beauty resonate or mix intriguingly — the men at once like boxers and ballerinas — but only in passing. Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z “The last Balanchine ballerina retires,” mourned Sunday morning news shows. Review: ‘Girl Through Glass’ leaps to the peak of the dance world 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The heart of the work is the pas de deux by the ballerina and the modern dance man, in which his faunlike primitivism is tamed by, but also incorporated into, her fluid expansiveness. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z A dark show about a ballet company and a beautiful and naive yet emotionally disturbed ballerina? Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z The hips shake, the neck bobs and the long legs kick like a ballerina’s — smooth, straight and high. ‘Make me dance. I want to dance.’ At 74, the ‘Chorus Line’ star steps into ‘The Pajama Game.’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The tights are not made for Lanika and other black girls aspiring to become ballerinas. Viola Davis made Emmys history and spoke truth to power in her speech 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z When I asked Tatyana about the differences in the Russian and American approach to ballet, she explained that in Russia, ballerinas were as well-known as celebrities. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z And Mimi Paul, one of the leading ballerinas in “Emeralds,” a segment of “Jewels,” worked closely with Ms. Krohn, who, last year, became a ballet master after retiring as a principal. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Being a ballerina is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do in my life. Garbage’s Shirley Manson Thrives on Unapologetic Heroines 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z To make a living, he painted clowns and ballerinas for a wholesale company, signing the work “Phil I. Steen” to register his disgust. Aaron Shikler, Portrait Artist Known for Images of America’s Elite, Dies at 93 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There’s the constant threat of aging, for instance, or “when you become unwatchable,” as one ballerina in her dressing room laments, furiously wielding her mascara wand. ‘Bolshoi Babylon’: Ballet’s dark side meets Kremlin politics 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Black Swan Down: Special forces in camouflage leotards battle to save a ballerina trapped by her tutu in a piece of scenery. Style Invitational Week 1243: We bid you, no T-R-U-M-P 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Beige ballerinas are allowed to be more things than dark-skinned ballerinas. A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z As first episodes go, it’s creepy: An aspiring ballerina who has just run away from home to New York gets a phone call. In ‘Flesh and Bone,’ Moira Walley-Beckett Leaps Darkly Into Ballet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z January’s broadcast of Balanchine’s “Diamonds” showed her originality; there she was sui generis, and not a throwback to any bygone Russian or American ballerina. Bolshoi Ballet Turns Back the Clock in Its New York Season 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But though she is one of the most celebrated ballerinas in the world, she isn’t tethered to ballet. Sara Mearns, an Explorer Way Beyond Ballet 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Ushers must present these bouquets in such a way that the ballerina can easily spot the loose flower, which is often tagged with a ribbon. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z One thing that I kept thinking was, “You’ve not been a star, not been a prima ballerina? Will they want a big name?” Part of a Seismic Shift in Ballet, Hope Muir Takes on a Major Role 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z "I never expected this at all," said the singer, who is also a trained ballerina and a former codebreaker with the Royal Canadian Navy. Paolo Nutini sets 2014 sales record 2014-04-20T18:01:28Z About a month ago, Edwards made an electrifying comeback, dancing the principal role originally created for the ballerina Tiler Peck in Justin Peck’s “The Times Are Racing.” A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z When a single ballerina can manage both, though, the connections and contrasts between the two become all the more enthralling. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z Wearing a loose striped top, cropped gray pants and green ballerina flats, Clarke appears as artfully carefree as her decor. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness. The truth of this is self-evident; former ballerina Darcey Bussell is one of many dancers who has told of the liberating new perspective on their work that motherhood brought. Vincent Dance Theatre – review 2012-11-18T00:06:05Z Police and investigators reported at his trial that the Bolshoi soloist felt he was being passed over for roles and was upset that his ballerina girlfriend, Anzhelina Vorontsova, was not being promoted. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty This year is the 60th anniversary of “Agon,” Balanchine’s ballet that showcased a trailblazing pas de deux for a white ballerina, Diana Adams, and a black male dancer, Arthur Mitchell. When Two Men Fall in Love on the Ballet Stage, and Why It Matters 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z And it’s not only ballerinas who are fussed over by their public. Hermes bags, hugs and the occasional stalker: When ballet fans go overboard 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Koolish said that flowers were not often given in Balanchine’s day, but that the company now always gives bouquets to the ballerinas at premieres and galas. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z He also is sufficiently tall and muscular to partner and lift ballerinas in demanding pas de deux. Ballet treasures from the Treasure State 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Little Sis is pretending to be a ballerina and turning cartwheels. Dance Review: ‘Summer’s Different,’ at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater 2013-04-30T21:02:54Z "Black Swan" stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina who grows into adulthood when she is given a leading role in "Swan Lake." "King's Speech," "Fighter" lead SAG film nominees 2010-12-16T15:52:14Z “I said, ‘Honey, do you want to be a ballerina?’ Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ This is also a nod to Ms. Desandre’s training as a ballerina, which she says allows her to let go physically onstage. Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z An Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina renowned for romantic roles alongside such greats as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z When I partner a ballerina, romance and sex are built into the steps and the gestures we enact. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “The fact that Mr. Balanchine took upon himself to put me with a Caucasian ballerina and to do a wonderful pas de deux was unheard of.” Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But he retains his virtuosity within tightly musical phrasing, and he's never less than a deft and sympathetic partner to his ballerina Viengsay Valdés. Swan Lake | Ballet review 2010-03-31T20:30:00Z The steps unfurl with as much silken power as the ballerina’s entrance: Her head covered in a veil, she takes steps on point as fabric streams behind. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z With the retirement of this last Balanchine ballerina, we have all moved one generation on in history. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z But the most mesmerizing couple is Mr. Angle, the company’s most refined partner and male dancer, and Ms. Hyltin, a gutsy wisp of ballerina, who after a nasty slip, regained her momentum with daring. Dance Review: ?Agon? and ?Chaconne? at New York City Ballet 2010-05-20T21:22:00Z “She was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest,” Urich said. 'Sound of Music' actress Heather Menzies-Urich dies at 68 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Jaffe was one of the few American ballerinas of her generation to establish an international career. Susan Jaffe to Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z All these ballerinas were considered definitive by different observers at the time. Dance on Video From Many Corners of the Web 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z I wondered if the seamstresses needed eyeball replacements at the age of 25, like ballerinas need new hip joints. | Soigne K : Cue the Sitar, Cast the Petals 2010-12-01T20:25:00Z “When I was very young, I was taught by the ballerinas,” said Ms. McBride, who joined City Ballet when she was 16. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Kiesza: From elite sniper to chart topper 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Stewart faces tough competition from Natalie Portman, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her depiction of an unhinged ballerina in "Black Swan." 'Twilight' sequel leads MTV Movie Award contenders 2011-05-03T20:28:51Z “He has been nothing but respectful of me,” Sterling Hyltin, a longtime principal ballerina, said in a recent interview. Peter Martins Retires From New York City Ballet After Misconduct Allegations 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “She is a major ballerina, exceptional and different.” Nothing To Hide: Wendy Whelan Retires 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In 2015, Ms. Whelan, an eloquent former New York City Ballet ballerina, offered a program by several choreographers, and Mr. Brooks’s contributions attracted special attention. Duets in ‘Some of a Thousand Words’ Say It All 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z To get through its spring season, Ballet Theater relies on Russian ballerinas, several of whom don’t tour with it or appear in its smaller-scale fall season. The Watch List: American Ballet Theater?s Spring 2010-05-13T20:58:00Z Though otherworldly — when the ballerina appears, you can’t be sure if she is a vision, a memory or a woman — “The Dreamer” is also grounded by an earthiness. Lessons From Baryshnikov on Robbins (Less Is More) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “If flowers have arrived for a corps de ballet dancer or soloist, but the ballerina hasn’t received any, we won’t present them onstage.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z This woman was imprecise, that one wandering, the next OK up top but weak in the feet — these ballerinas lacked the finish to make Ashton’s baubles fully register, much less sparkle. Review: Sarasota Ballet’s Dusty Baubles and an Ode to Spring 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Not only are the modern-dance Ms. Sheu and the ballerina Ms. Whelan presented as equals, but the bare foot is also made to look at least as interesting as the point shoe. Dance Review: Fall for Dance, With Work by Christopher Wheeldon 2012-09-29T01:37:29Z A pregnant Natalie Portman won best actress for her role as a demented ballerina in “Black Swan,” that film’s lone prize. A Coronation for ?The King?s Speech? 2011-02-28T05:33:01Z Shitagi writes that the “focal point” of the photographs is neither the locations nor dance itself, but rather the ballerinas themselves, “their emotions, their aspirations and the place they are present in their lives.” The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Isabella Boylston, a principal ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, eats a lot of pasta. Hermes bags, hugs and the occasional stalker: When ballet fans go overboard 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Misty Copeland And also with the background of really speaking more in detail about the lack of diversity in ballet and of African-American ballerinas. Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet’s Boundaries 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Alternately comic and sincere, the dance tells a star-is-born story of a young woman plucked from the corps to become a prima ballerina. 'All Wheeldon,' all aglow at PNB 2011-09-26T18:03:04Z So it’s good to see some ballerinas changing the picture a bit. Ashley Bouder and Wendy Whelan Step in New Dance Directions 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z The film picked up four Spirit statuettes, including best feature and best female lead for Natalie Portman, who starred as a childlike ballerina consumed by fear and paranoia. "Black Swan" sweeps independent film awards 2011-02-28T01:44:36Z Or like when a ballerina cuts her leg through the air, it’s actually like a Ninja slice across someone’s face. ?Legion of Extraordinary Dancers,? Online Adventure 2010-06-25T04:17:00Z "It's a tall order to be a prima ballerina." 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky ushers a 'wereswan' onto the screen 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z Although she belonged to a generation of gifted ballerinas at the Paris Opera, she was set apart by a mesmerizing elegance that was never confused with chic. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z For many in the audience, though, all “Swan Lake” needs to be momentous is a stylish corps de ballet, an expressive ballerina and a princely hero. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z This wasn’t part of the plan of becoming a ballerina in New York City. In 70s New York on the Lower East Side, fire fighters weren't a city service, they were a godsend 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Turning to ballet, perhaps the greatest marvel has been the development of the ballerina Sara Mearns at New York City Ballet. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z But when you hear the word “ballerina”, my body is not what your mind’s eye conjures. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Playing him the music in the car, she told him how Mikhail Fokine had choreographed this for the ballerina Anna Pavlova to dance on point. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z Seo, the company’s reigning ballerina, possesses many obvious and exquisite ballerina traits: long, lean limbs, beautifully pliant feet, a weightlessness that is warm rather than skeletal. Ballerina thrills as both Odette and Odile 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Mason embodies her company’s traditions: she danced a wide range of ballerina parts for many and then served as assistant to MacMillan before taking more administrative roles. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z “Mongolia was a satellite and the mission of a satellite country was to develop the classical arts,” said B. Sergelen, the dynamic, Soviet-trained ballerina who is director of the State Academic Theater. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z After the event, one of the dancers and Artistic Director Julie Kent, the famed ballerina and former star of American Ballet Theatre, became ill. Perspective | The Washington Ballet thought a virtual fundraiser was safe. But it still may have put artists at risk. 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z While working on it, he fell in love with the magnificent ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who starred as the maiden. Poetry in motion: Mariinsky Ballet brings Russian fairy tale to the stage 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Mearns’s dancing in it is surely the greatest single ballerina performance before the public today. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In between are carousels of shoes — flats, midheel ballerinas, T-straps, ankle boots — and tuffets in dark cherry velvet for trying them on. Be a French Girl. Or Just Look Like One. 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z She was more than a ballerina — a dancer who embraced modern ideas. ‘Mia, a Dancer’s Journey,’ at Film Festival in New York 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z This is immediately funny, and some of the consequent jokes are funnier: When the men take turns lifting the women, the fourth and largest ballerina solves the imbalance by lifting him instead. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Three ballerinas took turns donning a red brocade vest similar to the singer’s to dance the role of Carmen. A marriage of opera and ballet in ‘Carmen in Havana’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z It was nominated for five Academy Awards including best director and best picture, but ended up winning only one -- the best actress statuette for Natalie Portman's performance as an unhinged ballerina. Film-maker Aronofsky to chair Venice fest jury 2011-04-27T16:20:05Z I’ve said that too few of the company’s ballerina roles are performed with distinction — in “La Source” and “Stars and Stripes,” for example, which were onstage in the last week. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z The blandly emotive choreography, seen in brief flashes is not worthy of a prima ballerina, much less an apprentice. A Ballet Scandal Gets the ‘Special Victims Unit’ Treatment 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z But how does a ballerina do ugly onstage? Dancing Juliet: The power, stillness and pain of one of ballet’s greatest heroines 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z She worked closely with his great ballerina Tamara Karsavina, developing a syllabus for student ballet teachers at the Royal Academy of Dance in London that continues today. Rachel Cameron obituary 2011-04-07T17:23:37Z The corps de ballet showed more failures of synchronicity than usual, and too few of the five solo ballerina roles were danced with distinction. Dance Review: Mercurial Dramas, Vertical and Horizontal 2011-06-02T22:00:35Z You would think that it’s every budding ballerina’s dream to dance “Swan Lake.” Megan Fairchild, the Swan With the Screwball Spark 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, its senior ballerina, Maria Kowroski, returned to the stage after childbirth, almost a year after her last performance. For City Ballet, a Balanchine Season of Renewal 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Not so infrequently, you can see a junior dancer from the corps de ballet and a senior ballerina tackle the same star role on consecutive days. New Faces (and Bodies) in Classic Roles at New York City Ballet 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Powell and Pressburger, Beecham and Ashton rearrange the story so that Stella, who inspires Hoffmann to envisage her as a succession of elusive or doomed heroines, is here a ballerina rather than an actress. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z It depicts a teenage trans girl, Lara, raised by a single father who supports not only her dreams of becoming a ballerina but also her gender confirmation surgery. Is a Film About a Transgender Dancer Too ‘Dangerous’ to Watch? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z She not only seems to be the least exhausted mother of three young children that I have ever seen, top ballerina or not, but she also epitomizes another Balanchine saying: “There is only now.” The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Those tensions are embodied in Nina Sayers, a young ballerina played by Ms. Portman. For Dancers, ?Black Swan? Is a Cautionary Tale 2011-01-07T21:13:52Z Mr. Askegard, 42, is forming a company, Ballet Next, with Michele Wiles, a former American Ballet Theater ballerina who left that troupe with surprising abruptness in June. Charles Askegard Departs City Ballet to Form Ballet Next 2011-10-02T04:00:05Z The word “ballerina” used to have connotations of sublimity — and still does when applied to many pre-21st-century roles and their interpreters. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The pair danced the work’s duet for the first time, and at the curtain call the ballerina thanked her dance partner and friend. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Kent is the conscientious ballet eminence and teacher, devoted to passing on the prestigious tradition she embodied at ABT as its longest-tenured ballerina. Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt. What will turn it around? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “For an artist, to not be on the stage, to not put your work on stage is a thing that will kill us little by little,” said Deborah Ribeiro, the theater’s lead solo ballerina. Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z And my case is supported by ballerinas who spend whole seconds undoing their voluminous hair onstage before falling to the floor. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z Flaherty customizes the vocal arrangements for the “rats” — the aspiring ballerinas who were often stalked by “abonnés,” older male patrons given backstage access to the girls. From ‘Ragtime’ to ‘Rocky’ to ‘Dancer’: Flaherty and Ahrens, together 30 years This adagio role heralds a new level for a ballerina, and in Ms. Reichlen’s case it’s about time. Dance Review: City Ballet Offers ‘The Cage’ and ‘Rubies’ at Koch Theater 2012-10-04T21:06:04Z On one day, his followers may encounter, say, three rare images of the ballerina Anna Pavlova in the embrace of an actual swan. Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s a hallmark of ballerina media, like “Black Swan.” ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: A Human Moment 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z In her 1986 autobiography, “Dancing on My Grave,” the ballerina Gelsey Kirkland describes Mr. Martins becoming angry at Ms. Watts at a party and dragging her up and down a flight of stairs. City Ballet’s Peter Martins Takes Leave of Absence After Misconduct Accusation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In “Last Work,” one idea was that there would be no improvisation; another involved three words: baby, ballerina and executioner. ‘Mr. Gaga’ Comes to Town 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It probably all derives from the Monte Carlo version, and in the case of the adagio and ballerina solo, parts of it surely go back to the 1892 St. Petersburg original, choreographed by Lev Ivanov. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z They’re flanked to right and left by equally large displays of Christmas ornaments, ballerina dolls and more. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: The Cheating Prince 2010-12-08T15:45:00Z Scattered about on a visit this summer were recent sculptures: a couple dancing the tango, a batter poised at home plate, a ballerina doing a pirouette. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Yet while critics and choreographic initiatives have long sought to address the field’s gender inequality, it’s less common for a ballerina to speak out about it publicly. Ashley Bouder, the Feminist Ballerina With a Mission 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z I was a ballerina before I was with him. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z The three ballerinas and Mr. Hallberg are stars in the best sense: they give off light, and you can’t take your eyes off them. Dance Review: Ballet Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-06-21T22:00:03Z “They were talking about a black ballerina who danced en pointe on Prince’s piano,” Ms. Squire said. The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The voyage into new idioms is one experienced by this ballerina and audience alike. Dance Review: Wendy Whelan Embraces Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-08-18T22:05:35Z The ballerinas look at the conductor, and they were all distracted, too. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Other remarkable European ballerinas shared the stage with her or alternated in the same roles. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Annabelle Lyon, an American ballerina who danced with some of the most important companies in the formative years of 20th-century American ballet, died on Nov. 4 at her home in Mansfield, Mass. She was 95. Annabelle Lyon, Dancer With Balanchine, Dies at 95 2011-11-11T04:32:04Z So if Reeve asks a prima ballerina what she thinks of free ballet school, she'll say it's great. TV review: Cuba with Simon Reeve; Inside Guinness World Records 2012-12-11T22:10:01Z If recovery is this memoir’s organizing principle, its charm lies in its chronicle of a ballerina’s daily work. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z This applies not only to the dead ballerina that the main villain is attempting to revive, but also to Olivia's old life, which has been irrevocably tainted by Alt-livia's actions on Earth-1. "Fringe" recap: Peter screws up 2010-12-10T13:30:00Z Neither actress is a ballerina, and they trained for months and dieted religiously to get in shape. "Black Swan" sweeps independent film awards 2011-02-28T01:44:36Z The being that was a swan now takes the stage, transformed: a woman, a ballerina. All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In a review of her final performance earlier this month, Alastair Macaulay described her as “one of the most marvelous ballerinas of our day,” with “an unmannered purity that epitomizes ballet as an art.” Carla Körbes Joins L.A. Dance Project 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z At the Joyce Theater on Thursday, a Russian-accented voice announced the absence of Natalia Notgudinov, among other changes in the program, but also said that all the ballerinas were in “very, very good moods.” Looking Fabulous at 40, and Still Happy to Step on a Few Toes 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Ballet, undoubtedly, is still burdened by stereotypes: There are the eating disorders, the effeminate men and the vindictive ballerinas who stop at nothing to get a role. Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In Ms. Bouder’s “In Pursuit Of,” Ashley Hod danced the ballerina role elegantly and with the kind of eloquence that causes ballet connoisseurs to invest the word “ballerina” with supplementary meanings. Ashley Bouder and Wendy Whelan Step in New Dance Directions 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z There’s even a cameo by a stubborn ballerina. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The film “The Red Shoes,” directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and loosely based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale, made a star of the red-haired British ballerina Moira Shearer. Matthew Bourne to Stage a New Version of ‘The Red Shoes’ 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z In the vision scene, ballerinas rule the stage, including a sparkling Sarah Lane, as Amour, and Ms. Semionova, clearly in her domain. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Don Quixote’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z After all, according to the motto of the Durant School of Dance, “Every girl wants to be a ballerina.” Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In the pas de deux, the ballerina has a solo on point with both legs held straight; she looks doll-like. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z But as the video progresses, we see that Swift is actually a terrible ballerina, is bad at twirling, and generally has little aptitude for dancing. Taylor Swift’s music video is uncomfortable, but is it really racist? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z She ascended to ballerina status with the shining power of her performances in Balanchine prima roles: the stretching ardor of her performance in “Diamonds” is an indelible memory. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z The ballerina takes the first step, a bent-knee kick to the side, and in that instant the music and the dance become one. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z But the duets I dance at City Ballet were not made to bring to mind friendship, the ballerina and her gay bestie. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Veteran ballerinas do not need to wear the usual reinforced toe shoes, because the bones in their feet have become fused en pointe. Style Invitational Week 1253: Fashion x fiction — a fake-trivia contest 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The team quickly realizes that several other victims have had their organs stolen in the same fashion and more importantly, all the stolen organs came from the same victim -- a 17-year old ballerina named Amanda. "Fringe" recap: Peter screws up 2010-12-10T13:30:00Z In an early work, she turned her alcoholic mother into a ballerina and herself into a model child. Review: ‘The Art of Memoir,’ by Mary Karr, Is a Veteran’s Guide 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z When you watch a prima ballerina in her tutu, her tights, her point shoes and — more relevant — her arabesques and her fifth positions, you see crucial aspects of the traditional nude. Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z Bunty was a comic for girls — it was full of comic strips about boarding schools and aspiring ballerinas. Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This involved a ballerina held aloft by two men, as the music built tremendously. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Studio Company Displays Growth 2014-02-09T22:39:56Z The heroine, Aurora — played by five ballerinas in California — is entirely absorbing in her dances but builds no huge excitement. Review: Ratmansky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Has Premiere in California 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Others struggle: In "The Turning Point," it was all too clear that Anne Bancroft — playing a veteran ballerina — could raise an arm or stand straight at the barre, no more. 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky ushers a 'wereswan' onto the screen 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z Ivan Nagy, a dancer of riveting noble presence who became one of American Ballet Theater’s most popular stars in the 1970s as an acclaimed partner to great ballerinas, died on Saturday in Budapest. Ivan Nagy, Star of American Ballet Theater, Is Dead at 70 2014-02-26T01:29:55Z The link between the two shows, besides the designer, is their ballerina stars: New York City Ballet principals Tiler Peck in “Little Dancer” and Megan Fairchild in “On the Town.” For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul Playing Up the Humor When Fools Fall in Love When two ballerinas share a full-length narrative ballet, they are usually rivals, fighting over the same man, often to the death. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z Last year, ballerina Misty Copeland and Peck curated the offerings, choosing the groups as well as the works. Kennedy Center’s 2018-2019 dance season takes a sharp contemporary turn 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He knows ballerinas by name and performance, and he counts some as friends. A Fashion Designer’s Otherworldly Costumes for the Royal Ballet 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Even a seasoned ballerina might find that absurd. Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z I’m not fat amongst “regular” people – I wear a women’s size 8 – but I am fat for a ballerina. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z In an evening of conversation with the company’s former principal Darci Kistler — regarded as George Balanchine’s last ballerina — Mr. Kolnik talks about Balanchine’s ballets and his images, which he refers to as “illuminated documents.” 7 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “I’m going to try 10 fouettés today,” she said at a recent rehearsal, referring to the whipping turns — traditionally, the ballerina performs 32 — that Odile performs in the ballroom scene. A Ballerina’s Nightmare: ‘Am I More Than Just a Dancer?’ 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The central figure and only woman is Natalia Osipova —perhaps the best role the Russian ballerina has received since she joined the Royal Ballet last year. Alastair Marriott’s ‘Connectome’ opens in London 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z At least one of the four ballerinas who tested positive for COVID-19 also appeared in the Dec. 7 premiere of the opera “Macbeth.” La Scala delays ballet season opener due to virus outbreak 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Consider the ballerina’s seeming ability to hang in the air while leaping. ‘100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know About Math and the Arts’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I remember lying back and gazing through my discomfort and pain at a thronging lunch party by Renoir, a Degas ballerina, and a sunlit field of poppies by Monet. Perspective | Are nature documentaries the greatest art of our time? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “Now you’re going to give me a hair flip,” yelled Janet Jones, a classically trained ballerina and former Miami Heat dancer. Twerking Their Way to a Sweaty Workout Nirvana 2014-03-12T23:27:10Z That motto was prescribed by Diaghilev’s great ballerina Tamara Karsavina. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z We thought it was really necessary to be part of the movement and quell the myths about the black ballerina. A Chance to Dance for Minority Ballerinas 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Between his costume changes and vocal gymnastics, Mercury performed lifts and impressively high kicks alongside the ballerinas. 32 surprising facts about Freddie Mercury 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z In the opening moments of Taylor Swift’s new dance-heavy video for “Shake It Off,” mainstream America’s favorite singer thematically moves from white to black to gray, from ballerina to B-girl to modern dancer. Critic's Notebook: Taylor Swift's catchy, tone-deaf 'Shake It Off' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Mary Clarke, the longtime editor of the British magazine Dancing Times, once hailed her as “truly the people’s ballerina.” Beryl Grey, Acclaimed British Ballerina, Is Dead at 95 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The Trocks, as they are known, perform technically demanding ballerina roles on point, and Mr. Johnsey was acclaimed for his brilliance and delicacy in these roles. He Wants to Be a Ballerina. He Has Taken the First Steps. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Not for the audience necessarily, but for the dancers — specifically those cast in that most renowned of ballerina roles, Odette/Odile? At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z This ballerina becomes a mirror of the conductor. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Raised in Columbia, Md., she joined Dance Theater of Harlem at 17 and was an immediate standout: a tall, long-limbed, exceptionally graceful ballerina. ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Even in the first movement of “Concerto Barocco,” you’re not really “seeing” Bach’s double violin concerto: The difference between the solo violins and the ballerinas following them is rhythmically large. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z This melancholy, soulful solo begins with the ballerina seated on the floor. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival’s Evenings of Dance 2012-08-06T22:27:47Z Their make-believe stories end with ballerinas getting shot. Zadie Smith’s newest is in many ways her strongest novel 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Just now there are at least 11 prodigious American-born young women dancing in six different American companies, who deserve to be called ballerinas. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z But the greatest piece of Nutcracker lore is passed down among tiny Nutcracker ballerinas as if it were an anthropological creation myth. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z He maintains a fixed rictus-like grin throughout while she keeps rushing around with sophisticated “ballerina” flourishes of her wrists and artfully widened eyes. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: The Not So 'Greatest Russian Nutcracker' 2010-12-24T19:15:31Z She may only be 26, but the ballerina Catherine Hurlin has been ascending for more than half of her life. The Breakout Stars of 2022 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z At times, plunging into a penché or rotating in an arabesque, she seems like the prototypical ballerina against which more skewed, less classical movement defines itself. Review: From Twyla Tharp, the Effort and Possibilities of Dancing 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “You were taught the history of ballet, about the French ballerinas, how technique evolved,” she said. Irina Kolpakova Trains Dancers at American Ballet Theater 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Four ballerinas, long hair floating to their waists, began their first rehearsal for Jerome Robbins' "Afternoon of a Faun" in a Pacific Northwest Ballet studio last week. PNB to mirror Robbins' 'Afternoon of a Faun' 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z But given his skill and my incompetence, this was like a ballerina demonstrating a fouetté for a toddler with a broken leg. Do couples that cook together, stay together? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But many ballerinas have successfully substituted another step to produce the same effect of speed, control and brilliance. A show of virtuosos, ‘Swan Lake’ shimmers with strong women 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z There is one very hysterical ballerina who seems like she can’t live in this world. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Two aspiring ballerinas show promise when they make their debuts in the same leading role in a big Tchaikovsky ballet. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z It’s a role that challenges ballerinas over a lifetime, and I think it’s more significant than doing a Broadway show.” Can Misty Copeland be both a celebrity AND a great artist? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Surely not from those sweet ballerinas in tutus? Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The company, almost halfway through its four-week fall season, is being characteristically bounteous with repertory by its founder-choreographer, George Balanchine, which in turn is bounteous with ballerina roles. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z This is where Seo and Murphy proved to be the more interesting ballerinas. Misty Copeland packs Wolf Trap with the power of love 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Picasso’s connection to his first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova — who perhaps led him to draw dancers or paint figures in balletic poses — will also be explored. Inside Art: Phillips de Pury?s Carte Blanche Auctions 2010-05-27T20:48:00Z Given the turmoil going on at New York City Ballet, where Farrell once reigned as its most famous ballerina, her company was an even more welcome sight. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z At Lincoln Center, we raced the rain and lost, hustling past matte black benches where ballerinas perched for furtive cigarettes, and entered the David Koch Theatre through the stage door. Dawn Landes, Barefoot at Lincoln Center 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z It turns out, however, that she and the ballerina are old friends from ballet class. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z In a particularly touching gesture, members of the corps de ballet presented each ballerina with a single white rose. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the Vision Scene, it was good to see more of the young ballerina Olga Smirnova, here playing the Queen of the Dryads with an intensely gracious charm. Bolshoi Ballet Performs ‘Don Quixote’ With a Smile 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Yet a ballerina is not just an executant; she is also a controlling force whose command of a ballet’s stage worlds and its internal dynamics register as thought. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z Eyeballs, large as frying pans, stare at us from the ballerinas’ tutus, daring us to look away. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Last year’s participants included, for example: a French bulldog with a “Star Wars” theme; a papal Westie mix; a terrier ballerina, not quite on pointe on all fours; and a pair Grand Prix-ready Chihuahuas. Spare Times for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z They would later become known as Oklahoma’s Five Moons ballerinas. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Individual images stay valuably in the mind, as when a ballerina, tilted diagonally with her arms raised, traces a soft path on point around her partner. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z Or ballerina aerialists form a kind of human maypole, as their silky white capes stream down like moth wings. ‘Odysseo’: Lovely horses, riders prancing in a dreamscape 2014-02-20T22:48:30Z Girls in pink tutus still attend lessons despite the poor prospects on display for a career ballerina. Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z She is a ballerina of the boardroom who peppers her sentences with business jargon. A ballerina of the boardroom and activist for the arts -- say hello to the new Music Center CEO 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The Tchaikovsky is played nice and slow on saxophone, and when the ballerina leaps onstage, the tassels on her pasties swirl furiously. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The school was founded seven decades ago by famed prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, now age 92, who is probably the most recognized person in Cuba not named "Castro." Boy triplets a sensation at top Cuba ballet school 2013-04-13T08:01:04Z That's how many years of dedicated study are needed on average to become a principal ballerina at a top company. Natalie Portman: Becoming a ballerina for 'Black Swan' not easy 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z The work comprises a partly painted canvas and, in front of it, occasional improvisations by a ballerina and a violinist. Dance Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:16:06Z For anyone seated at stage level, just feet from the bounding ballerinas, there was no illusion of ethereal levity here. A bubbly mix of Balanchine, Astaire from American Contemporary Ballet 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z More than either of Saturday’s ballerinas, he epitomized the ideal. Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Sleeping Beauty,? 2 Auroras at the Met 2010-06-20T22:57:00Z Ms. Kistler, the last ballerina trained and hired by Mr. Balanchine, will finish her 30-year career at New York City Ballet in a farewell program at Lincoln Center on Sunday. Arts & Leisure Preview: Darci Kistler, Scissor Sisters, 'Leave It to Beaver' and more 2010-06-25T19:23:00Z Encouraged by the outpouring of sympathy, Dmitrichenko then passed a note from prison to his ballerina girlfriend saying that he had not ordered the acid attack and had been "forced to accept many things." Battle for control over Bolshoi escalates 2013-03-20T14:18:31Z When Zina’s husband, Pyotr, falls for the ballerina, the two women connive to trick him, disguising the wife as the potential lover for a rendezvous. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z She has not abandoned the ballet world — she still creates ballets and is studying privately with Isabelle Guérin, the former Paris Opera Ballet étoile — but she doesn’t see herself as an ordinary ballerina. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Misty Copeland, the top-rank ballerina who broke the color barrier at American Ballet Theatre, looks down while sweeping a hand across her body like a queen sending doubters to the dungeon. Dancers suspended in time and space as you’ve never seen them before 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z His book is peppered with disclosures, many of them painful: the bullies; his first love; his snotty classmates during a year of study in Paris — and that one intimidating ballerina. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z At the height of her career she was considered to be the most technically brilliant ballerina the US had ever produced. Maria Tallchief dies aged 88: dancer who shone in Balanchine's ballets 2013-04-14T12:36:36Z Appearing in some serious red-carpet plumage, the breathtakingly lovely former ballerina was the focal point and chief reward of the event in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Julie Kent heralds an elegant new era for the Washington Ballet 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The story expands, though, as Patel's fantasy selves start to merge with Rau's: the ballerina she aspired to become, the cool Londoner. Hetain Patel: Be Like Water – review 2012-11-28T14:00:44Z The charismatic ballerina stuck around, and on Tuesday at the Joyce Theater, Ms. Lopez, a former New York City Ballet principal, will present the first offering of the reimagined company: the premiere of “Bacchae.” Without Wheeldon, Morphoses Forges Ahead 2011-10-23T01:47:02Z If Mr. Peck goes on to create dances equally revelatory for individual ballerinas and for the female corps, he’ll prove a true master. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Matthew Bourne’s “The Red Shoes” reinterprets the 1948 film about a ballerina forced to choose between love and art. Ballet and Bernstein: Kennedy Center reveals more of 2017-18 season 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z A ballerina doesn’t so much dance the role as let it consume her body, bit by bit. Julie Kent Stars in American Ballet Theater’s ‘Manon’ 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z But the question remains: How hard is it for a new mother to turn back into a ballerina? A Ballerina’s Return From Maternity Leave 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z In November 1980 in New York, Ms. Kistler made her debut in the second movement of Balanchine’s “Symphony in C,” one of the great ballerina roles. Dance Review: Darci Kistler: The Long Goodbye 2010-06-28T18:34:00Z Even Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, one of the company’s biggest stars, made a ballet in the early years. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame Over the next 10 days, several of City Ballet’s top ballerinas embody the titular character in this streamlined, two-act production. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Tragedy struck four days later, after its first and only performance: The ballerina Elna Lassen, who danced the other role in this trio, committed suicide. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z It was as if he did not see the streets, railway stations, ballerinas and boaters. Odilon Redon: Prince du R?ve - review 2011-04-12T13:01:37Z "Of course, this position is sweet," the former ballerina said. Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack 2013-01-18T21:46:05Z Rather, she says, “the shade was close to a ballerina, with a touch of salmon.” Inside Betsey Johnson’s Malibu Dream House 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Degas ballerinas and Monet haystacks are more the ticket. Move over, Monet: Oregon had its own Impressionist painter 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Another company unveiling its 2012 season this week was Milan's La Scala ballet company, which celebrated the event in unusual fashion: by summarily sacking one of its ballerinas. Seven days on stage: Great Gatsbies 2012-02-10T16:35:21Z On Tuesday, it was especially good to see the ballerina Maria Kowroski, now in her early 40s, returning, after some years, to the prima role in the final “Diamonds.” Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z To the non-dancing audience, you hear the word ballerina and you think, “Oh my goodness, superstar.” What Is an Everyday Ballerina? A Luminous New Memoir Tells All. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z On a bare stage even Ms. Cojocaru, one of the world’s great ballerinas, couldn’t make the piece look like much more than a technical accomplishment. Dance Review: Couples? Affair, Business Edition 2011-05-17T23:40:15Z His capability — he is probably not tall enough to partner every ballerina handsomely — is not infinite. Dance Review: Casting Balanchine the Way the Master Did 2010-11-22T22:36:00Z The crisscross patterns in the coda of the pas de trois are the wittiest sequence in all Marius Petipa’s output, and the ballerina variations perfectly demonstrate his gift for coloratura brilliance. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z For the coming season, Kent is hoping to hire a couple more ballerinas, with a view to programming Frederick Ashton’s serene 1946 ballet, “Symphonic Variations,” next year. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Inside Room 509 of the former military hospital, where she lives with her uncle and her cousin, she has hung drawings of ballerinas and horses. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z At the end, some of the leering gentlemen among the crowd fling these Degas ballerinas over their shoulders to carry them off. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z It was danced by Aurélie Dupont, the Paris Opera ballerina now becoming that institution’s director of dance: She was sweet, polite and charming but largely devoid of the tension crucial to Graham style. Review: Looking for Martha Graham in Her Company’s Dance Steps 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z On one side of the fitting room at New York City Ballet’s costume shop, the clothing designer Narciso Rodriguez was studying the neckline of a pink-and-black dress on the ballerina Indiana Woodward. The ‘Mad Professor’ Who Makes Sure the Tutus Swirl 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z I’m thinking especially of the ribbed gray knit shorts, cardigans and leggings that were interspersed with shimmery floral cocoon coats and white governess poplin shirts speckled with prima ballerina tutu gems. Gender, Lockdown and Really Good Outerwear 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Along with very high heels, there are lots of wedges and also flat sandals and even some ballerina slippers so popular this past summer. Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway 2012-09-23T22:46:03Z “I wanted to be a ballerina, then a chemist,” she recalled in the Forbes interview. Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ Dies at 82 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z With its title role pivoted between peasant girl and moonlit ghost, this 1841 work also offers ballerinas one of the most testing challenges of the repertory. The Mikhailovsky Ballet and a tale of two Giselles 2013-03-25T15:15:16Z In The Veil Suite, a ballerina flits against a dreamscape of inky black mountains and railroad tracks stretching into the distance. Izhar Patkin's Haunting Tulle Veil Paintings on View at Mass MoCA 2013-12-12T05:00:00Z The ballerina appears frequently at dance events in Havana despite her failing eyesight. Cuban ballerina Alonso to visit New York in June 2010-05-07T21:42:00Z In that moment, you could see not only the ballerina in her — determination winning out over disappointment — but also the choreographer, which she is. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z There are imperfections: too many “fish” lifts for Snow and Sugar Plum ballerinas; thin choreography for the Snowflake corps, and, after a superb start, a meager end for the Waltz of the Flowers. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: In the Land of Snow 2010-12-07T21:09:00Z Such as By Hook, by Laura Evers, a visually sumptuous work that sees a fishmonger and several ballerinas take to the streets. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z But after Nijinsky marries one of the company’s ballerinas at the end of the first act, Diaghilev goes haywire and so does the play. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The piece displays the power and brilliance of the ballerina as if she were a gem rotating to catch the light. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Before a Verse attendant sends me to explore on my own, she asks whether I can see the ballerina pirouetting down the hallway. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Although City Ballet dances the Balanchine “Nutcracker” well these days in most respects, too few of its Sugar Plum Fairies exude ballerina magic; and this is a role that should enchant. Dance Review: City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? Recast for the Movies - Review 2011-12-14T22:20:55Z By way of proof, Ferguson added that Keynes, after all, was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of "poetry" rather than procreated. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z Other ballerinas — 13 more, all from New York Theater Ballet — repeated the process, except that, after rising, they often did a number of the tiny, weight-shifting steps known as bourrées. ‘Little Dot,’ a Seurat-Inspired Work by Suzanne Bocanegra 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Girls in pink tutus still attend lessons despite the poor prospects on display for a career ballerina. Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The ballerina’s son, Andrei, calls every day from his home in San Francisco. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z She became the most famous ballerina of her generation – also one of the most lovingly documented. MoveTube: Anna Pavlova, forever the Dying Swan 2012-08-28T12:18:00Z But it’ll take more than a video to win his daughter’s ballerina teacher’s heart. What to watch on Friday: ‘Harriet the Spy’ on Apple TV Plus 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z On one occasion, he came to LA to work, but locked himself in a hotel room with a ballerina called Amy Burke. How we made Deliverance 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In the film, the former Star Wars actress plays a ballerina teetering on the brink of madness. Portman wouldn't recommend film diet 2011-01-18T06:40:05Z It gets better: If we follow Copeland’s “ballerina body plan,” eating like her and stretching like her, we can, if we’re disciplined enough, end up looking like her. Misty Copeland’s new book offers advice — and perhaps false hope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Since joining that company in 1997 he has performed with almost every ballerina in the company’s esteemed ranks. Charles Askegard Departs City Ballet to Form Ballet Next 2011-10-02T04:00:05Z Rosemary Dunleavy staged the ballet selections from "Orpheus," which are gracefully performed by Natalia Alonso as Maria Tallchief, Native American ballerina and wife to Balanchine, and a puppyish Michael Rosen as her young American co-star. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z "I saw myself dancing with other ballerinas, so that was disgusting - but it was disgusting because it looked so real," said Ishizuka. You can waltz with Leo, pirouette to "Swan Lake" or join Beyonce on the disco floor 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z All of the ballerinas I spoke with really, really appreciate flowers. Hermes bags, hugs and the occasional stalker: When ballet fans go overboard 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z More remarkable still was Mr. Gergiev’s touching tribute to a longtime friend, the consummate Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who died in May at 89. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Suzanne Farrell, the sublime ballerina and creator of many lead roles for the choreographer George Balanchine, was back in the studio where he made many of his masterworks for New York City Ballet. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Every few weeks, I work myself into a lather over some new mailing list I’ve fallen prey to: an art gallery that sells bronze statuettes of ballerinas or the N.R.A. fund-raising juggernaut. How Do I Get Off the Mailing List ... of a Family Member? 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The film is full of fascinating historical footage of runway shows, the Palace nightclub, the Opium perfume launch and ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire dancing in a spectacular pink flower costume created by Saint Laurent. 'L'Amour Fou' centers on the partner of late designer Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T15:07:04Z Ms. Miller, so exquisite in her expansive use of her upper body, needs to acquire more lower-body strength if she’s to become the ballerina of central Balanchine roles, for which she seems otherwise ideal. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z But her smile that afternoon masked what had become a bitter dispute behind the scenes between the ballerina and the company. A Dancer’s Farewell, Not as Choreographed 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z A dancer from the age of four, she overcame both polio and an horrific car accident to forge a 16-year career as a ballerina in Australia and Canada. Royal Ballet School director dies 2014-04-30T10:12:58Z "I'm not really a technology person," shrugs principal ballerina Maria Kochetkova. How Twitter transformed dance 2012-07-31T17:29:07Z “Barber” is one of those late-Romantic works in which the ballerina must literally let her hair down. Review: Miami City Ballet Brings Its Own Sunshine to Jacob’s Pillow 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z His hiplet ballerinas, as he likes to call them, were on “Good Morning America” in May, and he is working with the production company Two Fifteen West Entertainment on the development of a reality show. Hiplet: An Implausible Hybrid Plants Itself on Pointe 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z His post was accompanied by what appeared to be a Photoshopped image of a ballerina holding a man in the air. When Two Men Fall in Love on the Ballet Stage, and Why It Matters 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z A former professional ballerina turned fitness instructor, Ms. Bowers taught private clients her Ballet Beautiful workout method for two years before Ms. Portman found her. Skin Deep: Lining Up to the Barre 2011-05-11T22:16:36Z Some ballerinas do comment, though; and this quality of charming intelligence was surely part of what characterized Violette Verdy, who died on Feb. 8. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z It made a huge difference, simply being able to study actual footage: from pioneering Indian dancer Ram Gopal performing in 1948, to a gallery of old Soviet ballerinas. Judith Mackrell on the Oxford Dictionary of Dance 2010-08-25T20:45:00Z It’s a fixture of the holidays around the globe, performed by everyone from children dressed as mice to world-acclaimed ballerinas. Holidays offer sights, sounds and hands-on fun 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Everyone was saying, “She’s a ballerina, she’s so amazing” and praising me, and I didn’t understand why or what I had done. Retiring From Ballet Theater, a Dancer Gets What She Needs 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The difference between a good night and a meaningful one, though, rests primarily with the lead ballerina, who is in just about every scene. Mariinsky Ballet's 'Raymonda' at Segerstrom: Why love story could use a little heart 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He gently deposits her on the ground, where she spins alongside the ballerina and paws at the other creatures surrounding her. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z New York City Ballet’s rehearsal studios are the natural place for her, where she can groom dancers in the roles she knew best as the company’s prima ballerina and Balanchine’s muse. Perspective | Bringing Suzanne Farrell back into the New York City Ballet studios is a step in the right direction 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z She shows, as every classical ballerina must, that the eyes are the mirror of the soul. The Sleeping Beauty/English National Ballet – review 2012-12-09T00:06:03Z This adapts Balzac’s 1843 novel, “Lost Illusions,” so that its hero and rival heroines are a composer and two ballerinas; the action occurs solely in Paris, in the 1830s. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Lost Illusions’ Is Shown as a Broadcast 2014-03-04T22:34:42Z In "The Red Shoes," Moira Shearer plays a ballerina who becomes a star, only to find herself desperately torn between love and art; it's a gloriously beautiful tragedy, filmed like a Technicolor dream. 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky ushers a 'wereswan' onto the screen 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z A 16-year-old apprentice ballerina, who was 1.70 meters tall and weighed 40.8 kilos, would later recall that she suffered from asthma, jaundice, anemia and other diseases that result from malnutrition, such as edema. Tulips for breakfast: the flower as food from the war to contemporary gastronomy 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The sovereign of this scene is the Siren, the ultimate femme fatale, played on Tuesday by Maria Kowroski, the company’s beloved senior ballerina. Review: Balanchine, the Storyteller: Frisson Is in the Details 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The central water jet is Garland’s prima ballerina. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z One doll, a plastic ballerina with a white lace and satin tutu, sold for $11,000, according to an online record of the sale. Spelling's widow sues Md. auction house over dolls 2012-05-24T19:37:10Z Ms. Lane and Ms. Copeland are long-term soloists who have been dancing ballerina roles for years, but the other two, less known, gained immensely from this opportunity. Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of ‘Raymonda’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Here’s another one: ‘You supposed to look like ballerina, but you look like pig.’ Lessons of Old Are Still in the Air at the School of American Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In “Mozartiana,” though, there’s no loosening of the hair, but the ballerina is seen in both religious and secular modes. New York City Ballet’s Powerfully Eventful Fall Season 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z He borrowed classical music tapes so he could make up dances at home, and drew ballerinas to give to the program’s director. An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “I think it’s important for us to remember that Maria and Marjorie and all five of the ballerinas came out of Oklahoma, from small rural reservation communities,” he said. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Soon she was visiting New York to audition for casting directors, and eventually nabbed a supporting role two years ago as the ballerina Debbie in the Broadway musical “Billy Elliot.” | Lilla Crawford: Lilla Crawford, the Star of the ‘Annie’ Revival 2012-09-29T22:00:21Z I don’t remember any ballerina taking so naturally to the ruthless scamp side of the character. Critic?s Notebook: Morning Feast On the Bolshoi (Popcorn, Too) 2011-05-30T21:28:00Z Often one type of representation will sabotage another; the ballerina is convincing enough in stills, but on video she falls apart. Art Review: Eleanor Antin’s Selves at Columbia University 2013-09-05T21:49:22Z Occasionally an astronaut or a ballerina, symbols of childhood career fantasies, would appear. Gob Squad Returns to the Public Theater 2012-01-03T23:39:34Z |
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