I can’t profess that I knew Gregg Allman on a deeply personal level. Although my book Midnight Riders (Little, Brown & Company, 1995) was the first full-scale biography of the Allman Brothers Band, I didn’t know Gregg the way I know some of the other members of the band. I interviewed him a few times,…
On a sultry Thursday evening in late April, only three weeks before the Atlanta Ballet season finale, five current and former company dancers gathered in an enclosed parking garage inside the Westside Cultural Arts Center to greet their future. The hard, bare concrete floor was hardly optimal for dance — far removed from the state-of-the-art…
This weekend marks the symbolic end of the John McFall era at Atlanta Ballet. The company performs the ballet version of Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real, which the former artistic director commissioned from his last resident choreographer, Helen Pickett. It also marks the final performance of 13 dancers from the McFall era, including five of the company’s…
Colonel Bruce Hampton was a close and cherished friend. He changed my life, and brought immense goodness and richness into my world, and he did that same thing for far more people than he could ever count. I’ve never met anyone in the music business as universally beloved, or as trusted, as the Colonel. My…
For John McFall, the joy of art comes from the process of its creation. It’s the artistic journey that matters as much as the art itself, and for 21 years, McFall’s artistic path helped elevate Atlanta Ballet into an internationally recognized company and touched the lives of thousands of kids who have taken classes at the ballet’s Centre for Dance Education.
In a move that dramatically changes the future face of Atlanta Ballet, 13 dancers — almost 50 percent of the company — will not be back for the 2017–18 season. The departures include the company’s four star-level dancers — Christian Clark, Tara Lee, Rachel Van Buskirk and Alessa Rogers. They will all leave the company…
Legislation that would give significant tax incentives to boost Georgia’s music industry was passed yesterday by the Georgia General Assembly at 11:58 p.m. on the final day of the session, and now awaits the signature of Governor Nathan Deal. The Georgia Music Investment Act (HB-155) overwhelmingly passed both houses of the state legislature, and would give the…
The first full season under new Atlanta Ballet artistic director Gennadi Nedvigin will feature classic ballets from George Balanchine and Marius Petipa, plus a modern version of Don Quixote and three world premieres — one by retiring long-time company dancer and emerging choreographer Tara Lee. The season will also see the final run of Atlanta…
Only Atlanta Ballet’s fourth artistic director in the company’s 86-year history, Gennadi Nedvigin, arrived in Atlanta last summer after his retirement as a principal dancer for San Francisco Ballet. Although Nedvigin was hired in time to consult on the 2016–17 season, it is a mix of programs that still strongly reflect the more modernistic approach…
A coalition of over a dozen Atlanta arts organizations have drafted a proposal on how to disperse funds that would be raised by a proposed fractional sales tax dedicated to funding arts in the city. The groups offered a plan to Mayor Kasim Reed yesterday that would cap annual disbursements to any arts organization at…
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