Ib Anderson as Apollo. From Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance. Photo by Costas. What does it take to don the mantle of a newborn god? The role of Apollo has been coveted by dancers, in part because it was a role that Balanchine liked to rehearse himself, customizing the interpretation to suit each Apollo… Read More
Diving into the Details of Second Detail: A Dancer's Perspective
This picture is of Lucas Threefoot and Xuan Cheng rehearsing for the Body Beautiful program. Photo is by Blaine Truitt Covert. The Second Detail is the kind of ballet that dancers love to dance. It’s a challenging, body-twisting, mind-bending, powerful ballet that requires constant attention to what is going on around us; I can’t think of… Read More
Learning Apollo from the Master: A Conversation with Francia Russell
Some ballets take time to develop their full character and others change the face of the art form the minute they premiere. Balanchine’s Apollo did both- evolving significantly over the first 20 years of its production history while consistently being hailed as the event that launched neoclassical ballet. It was the beginning of a deep… Read More
Dance United: Exploring Wheeldon’s Ghosts
(Pictured: Yuan Yuan Tan and Damien Smith in the San Francisco Ballet world premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s Ghosts. Photo by Alistair McCauley) San Francisco Ballet Soloists Dana Genshaft and Garen Scribner will be joining us for Dance United on June 9th at the Keller Auditorium and we are delighted to learn that they will be… Read More
Introducing Dance United Guest Artist Jeanette Delgado
The New York Times recently called Miami City Ballet principal dancer Jeanette Delgado “one of the world’s most marvelous ballerinas.” Get to know this fascinating guest artist in this recent PBS special about the Miami City Ballet. She and partner Renato Penteado will perform an excerpt from Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes at Dance United. Dance… Read More
