Douglas Scott, artistic director of Full Radius Dance, was walking through the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on his way to see a dance exhibit when he noticed something: black-and-white photos taken in Las Vegas and Coney Island, at rodeos and nightclubs. He stopped and looked. And looked again. The photos were the…
The beauty of Ballethnic Dance Company’s Urban Nutcracker, now in its 20th year, is its celebration of community and its gimmick-free respect for this ballet’s classical heritage. One could say that costuming the Nutcracker to look like black nationalist Marcus Garvey is a gimmick, but in context it feels right; it’s simply another nod to the African…
None of the Lauri Stallings’ collaborative works I have seen — and I confess I’ve seen only a handful — has exuded as much joy as cloth did Thursday night at the Goat Farm Arts Center’s Goodson Yard. Cloth was the first of two world premieres on the program; the second was The Tower, set…
If dancing in a garden sounds like a pastoral kind of thing, you don’t know choreographer Robert Dekkers. His new work, Yours Is Mine, which receives its Atlanta premiere at the High Museum August 22 and 29, explores not the frolics of nymphs and naiads but “the nebulous area between aggression, camaraderie and sexuality.” It’s…
Dale Shields’ framed photo is the first one you see on the wall as you walk through the lobby of the Atlanta Ballet building toward the rehearsal studios. Given what Shields does for the company, it’s no surprise. As the “ballet mistress,” she is the vital thread that connects the dancers with every aspect of the…
Shakespeare ballets are all the rage these days. Alexei Ratmansky’s new Tempest premiered at American Ballet Theatre last October; London’s Royal Ballet gave the world premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale just last Thursday, and Atlanta Ballet performed Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette earlier this season. Hamlet is not the most obvious choice…
Alexandre Proia, 51, was named artistic director of the Georgia Ballet four seasons of the year ago, in March 2013. So it seems fitting that he celebrates his first anniversary with the company with a new ballet titled The Four Seasons. The work premieres Friday at the Marietta Performing Arts Center and runs through April 6….
When Robert Battle took over as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2011, his biggest fear was that audiences would stop coming. “I kept picturing people not showing up,” he admitted one afternoon in January, a dapper presence in the bar of Atlanta’s Georgian Terrace Hotel. His fear was unfounded. The 56-year-old…
It’s 11:30 a.m. at the Atlanta Ballet studios, and two dozen dancers are watching Alessa Rogers and Christian Clark run through the balcony scene from Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette. As Prokofiev’s soaring music comes to a close and the two young lovers part, the other dancers break into spontaneous applause. It’s still a couple…
Tap dancer Michelle Dorrance is among the new wave of tappers smashing the stereotypes of men in dark suits and Broadway babes in tights and heels. On stage, she’s a tomboy in a skirt, her legs bare, her long brown hair swinging, her toothy grin untamed, and she is racking up acclaim and awards with…
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