Brian Wallenberg and Jonathan Harker are very much alike: good, reasonable men with a bent for business. Both find themselves in Count Dracula’s castle one night, out of their element and in the arms of three voracious female vampires and the reptilian count himself. But when Wallenberg the ballet dancer steps on stage to play…
A magnificent series of ballet and opera films will be shown in theaters across Georgia this spring. You’d think that such an announcement would be straightforward — ballets are performed, filmed and beamed around the world, and that’s that. But a tragic, highly charged event has forced the postponement of one of the works: the…
Gregory Catellier is funny — in a thoughtful, low-key, unexpected way. For example, his dance company’s mascot and T-shirt design is a baby ostrich (don’t ask, it’s a long story), and the Depression section of his new evening-length work “E” — premiering January 24-26 at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts — is set…
If you think wheelchairs and dance don’t belong on the same stage, you haven’t seen Atlanta’s Full Radius Dance. Or any physically integrated dance company, for that matter. Full Radius Dance comprises four able-bodied dancers and four dancers in wheelchairs; they will perform three new works January 18 and 19 at 7 Stages in Little Five…
The second installment of the nine-month dance series Tanz Farm: A Performance Anthology opened Friday night at the Goat Farm Arts Center, providing a welcome jolt from the sweetness of “Nutcracker” season. The program was produced and curated by Lauri Stallings of the gloATL performance group and Anthony Harper of the Goat Farm and comprised three premiere…
“NO LOADED GUNS!” That was the sign that greeted families Sunday afternoon as they climbed the steps from the Cobb Civic Center parking lot to see the Georgia Ballet’s “Nutcracker” at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre. Was the ballet expecting those little girls in velvet dresses to be carrying 9mm semi-automatics? No, it was a…
More than 20 years ago, he created illusions for the BalletMet production in Columbus, Ohio, and performed the role of Drosselmeyer, the eccentric and mysterious toymaker who invokes the magic in Act I and whose gift of a nutcracker to the young Marya sets the story in motion. That ballet was choreographed by none other than…
“The Nutcracker” is back in town. The first version of the Christmas classic to be performed in Atlanta this season was Ballethnic Dance Company’s “Urban Nutcracker,” at the Ferst Center for the Arts from Thursday through Sunday. Billed as showcasing “the rich history of Atlanta’s own African-American community,” “Urban Nutcracker” is set in the Sweet Auburn district…
(Updated) Meeting Lauri Stallings, co-curator of the new Tanz Farm performance series, is a physical experience. Dressed one Saturday morning in multi-colored knitted wrist warmers, a blue-and-white-striped T-shirt, brown flounced skirt, sneakers and navy blue and green knee-length socks, with a huge dark yellow bag slung over her shoulder, she greets you with a generous touch on…
What does it mean to be French? What does it mean to be an American, or a citizen of any ethnically and racially diverse nation in the 21st century? French choreographer Pierre Rigal tackles this knotty theme in his latest work, “Standards.” Featuring eight hip-hop dancers, “Standards” will be performed one night only on Sunday,…
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