How important to the international reputation of Atlanta Ballet was its world premiere of The Princess and the Goblin by legendary dance choreographer Twyla Tharp in 2012? While the local newspaper seldom reviews the ballet’s performances these days, the New York Times sent a reviewer to Atlanta and published a full-length critique (“imperfect” but “enchanting”) of Tharp’s…
Atlanta Ballet’s third show in the final season of artistic director John McFall, 20/20 will feature three contemporary works commissioned by the ballet — two from previous years and a third that will receive its world premiere this weekend. 20/20 will be staged Friday through Sunday at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, with two performances…
Atlanta Ballet has hired Gennadi Nedvigin, a principal dancer from San Francisco Ballet, to become the fourth artistic director in its 87-year history, replacing the retiring John McFall. Nedvigin came to Atlanta last season and worked with the dancers to stage Classical Symphony, a piece by San Francisco Ballet’s resident choreographer Yuri Possokhov. “I am…
When Atlanta Ballet first staged the Royal Winnipeg Ballet extravaganza Moulin Rouge — The Ballet in 2010, Christian Clark and Nadia Mara played the lead roles of Nathalie and Matthew. Except Clark danced in the “B” cast and Mara, then 21 and in just her third year with the company, danced in the “C” cast,…
Renowned screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan — who cowrote last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens — will receive the first annual Icon Award for Contributions to the Cinematic Arts from the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and ArtsATL. Kasdan will receive the award at a gala on May 22 at the Woodruff Arts Center’s Rich…
Friday night’s opening of the annual run of Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker at the Fox Theatre will mark the 21st, and final, season under the direction of artistic director John McFall. McFall, who will retire at the end of the upcoming season, is only the third artistic director in the ballet’s 86-year history and he goes…
Alex Cooley, the rock promotor whose legacy began with the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1969 and includes the founding of Music Midtown, died Tuesday at the age of 74. Cooley was among the most prominent and powerful rock promotors from the ’70s, on par with San Francisco’s Bill Graham and Boston’s Don Law. The list…
Georgia was once the home of the Muscogee and Cherokee nations before both were forcibly removed and sent to Oklahoma in the 1830s. They were among the more than 100,000 people from the Five Civilized Tribes — which also included the Seminoles, Choctaws and Chickasaws — who were sent away so that Anglo-Americans could take…
The Alliance Theatre has released the final design specs for the $22 million renovation that will mark the first major work on the theater since it was built in 1968, and will send the Alliance on an extended road trip across Atlanta during its 2017-18 season as the theater is rebuilt. The project will include…
The genesis of Project Love — the fundraiser to help domestic violence victims put together by Atlanta Ballet company dancer Alessa Rogers — goes back 10 years when Rogers was a student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. “A group of students put a show together, and we donated the money…
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