The 19th annual Modern Atlanta Dance Festival squeezed five troupes into a 90-minute program at Fabrefaction Theatre on Friday. Artistic and Executive Director Douglas Scott, who also heads up the host company, Full Radius Dance, has run the festival since its inception in the mid-1990s and deserves a bow for his commitment to the ever-evolving Atlanta…
Atlanta Ballet brings to a close its exciting 2012-13 season this weekend with “Love Stories,” a mixed bill playing through this (Sunday) afternoon at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The four ballets, two of them company premieres, investigate love in all its iterations, from heart-pounding passion to fleeting connections to playful couplings and the slippery…
Tanz Farm, the performance anthology curated by gloATL and the Goat Farm Arts Center, has blown open Atlanta’s dance world this season with a series of cutting-edge artistic collaborations. The fourth in the series, “The Liberated Accident — an evening in two chapters,” will take place May 9-11 at the Goat Farm’s Goodson Yard. “The Liberated…
If the words “multiple choice” bring up unpleasant memories of tests in school, you might want to head down to the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art this Saturday afternoon for a very different experience. Dance, drama, music and snippets of StoryCorps interviews that were taped at the museum earlier this month will become part of…
In a large, light-filled studio at Atlanta Ballet’s complex on the Westside, dancers are rehearsing over and over again one section of choreographer David Bintley’s “Carmina Burana.” Bintley wants them to be tougher, slouchier. He demonstrates; they watch intently. Just react, he urges. Drop the classical poses. This, after all, is not “Swan Lake.” It’s…
Leslie Gordon became the director of Georgia State University’s Rialto Center for the Arts in 2003, seven years into the venue’s present life as a state-of-the-art downtown performing arts center. Formerly a movie theater, it closed during downtown’s economically depressed years, then was bought and completely renovated by Georgia State in the early 1990s. Gordon has…
Atlanta Ballet has a line item in its budget called the “innovation fund.” Judging by its announcement today of its 2013-14 season and “very ambitious” five-year strategic plan, that line item will see plenty of activity this year and beyond. At a luncheon for trustees, donors and media at the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown,…
Contemporary choreographer George Staib says his new piece, “Versus,” coming March 21-23 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, emerged out of some of his older works. But it’s not a retrospective. And if the dancers in his six-year-old company, Staibdance, were hoping they would know the movement vocabulary, they were dead wrong. “They’re saying that only…
John McFall, Atlanta Ballet’s artistic director, likes to mix it up. When we met recently, he was a flurry of energy and color: black-and-white checkered shoes with pink laces, mustard-yellow jeans and a black shirt beneath white hair and ice-blue eyes. He mixes it up, too, in the company’s “New Choreographic Voices,” coming March 22-24 at the…
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s opening night Thursday at the Fox Theatre was more than a performance. It was an event. Before the dancers set foot on stage, cheers and applause greeted Artistic Director Robert Battle as he talked about Atlanta’s longtime love affair with the New York-based company. The troupe’s five-performance engagement continues through February…
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