When ArtsATL last checked in with Chuck Leavell, he was serving as the music director of last year’s all-star tribute to Gregg Allman at the Fox Theatre, in addition to helping put together a show with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall that celebrated Georgia music. And he was gearing up to leave for…
In January, Sports Illustrated celebrated its 60th anniversary of existence with a special issue that featured the 60 best stories it had ever published. It was a significant moment for the iconic magazine that helped champion the art of what’s now known as “longform” magazine writing. And there, standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes…
My heart must have skipped a beat when I saw Nadia Mara turn and start to approach me. I knew who she was — one of Atlanta Ballet’s featured dancers — and I also knew why she was walking toward me. It was two years ago, and I was sitting up front at the Cobb…
For an aspiring dancer, there are several formal paths that can lead to Atlanta Ballet and all are rigidly formatted. Some come through the Atlanta Ballet Centre For Dance Education and its pre-pro division, where the most serious and talented young dancers study and hope to be pulled out of the crowd. Others come to…
Atlanta Ballet will restage three productions for its 2015–16 season, including legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin and Moulin Rouge — The Ballet, as it celebrates the 20th anniversary under the leadership of artistic director John McFall. The company also announced today that resident choreographer Helen Pickett, who was originally signed in 2012…
It seemed like an odd Christmas present for a six-year-old kid. It was a gift from my uncle — whom I discovered years later had once been a radio singing star in the West Georgia area — and I unwrapped it with extreme excitement that turned into profound disappointment. I knew it was a record album…
Christian Clark found his home when he was eight years old. His sister had signed up for a class at the Atlanta Ballet school (now the Atlanta Ballet Centre for Dance Education) and when she went to buy dance clothes, Clark tried to talk his mother into buying something for him as well. “I’m not going…
JONAH HOOPER TOWERS over his partner, ballerina Peng-Yu Chen, as they walk onto the rehearsal floor to go through the Snow Queen portion of Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker on a crisp fall afternoon in early November. The diminutive Chen, who barely hits the five-foot-tall mark, is dressed in a blue stretch top with black tights and a…
The Georgia Shakespeare theater group announced today it is closing down, unable to raise enough money to overcome a budget crisis that forced the troupe to cancel its first scheduled production of the season, Henry V. The company had hoped to resume operations with a production of Holiday Panto scheduled for December, but was unable…
MAYhem is a fitting finale to Atlanta Ballet’s extraordinary 2013–14 season, with two world premiere works by in-house choreographers and a repeat of a much-praised work by Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo first performed here in 2012. Atlanta Ballet resident choreographer Helen Pickett debuts her new modern work, “The Exiled,” which draws influence from existentialism and creates…
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