Jul 01 Amid Turmoil, American ‘Prince’ David Hallberg Returns to Russia By Molly Finnegan // In his 2011 role as the prince in Sleeping Beauty, David Hallberg became the first American principal dancer at the Bolshoi, the world’s largest ballet company and Russian cultural epicenter since its founding in 1776. Continue reading
Jun 30 Amid Turmoil, an American ‘Prince’ Returns to Russia By Mike Fritz Ballet star David Hallberg returns to the stage of the famed Bolshoi theatre in Moscow this summer for the first time since an acid attack left Bolshoi artistic director, Sergei Filin, badly burned and nearly blind last January. Hallberg became… Continue reading
Mar 06 Watch Acid Attack on Bolshoi Artistic Director Rocks Ballet World Inside the Acid Attack on the Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Ballet… Continue watching
May 17 Watch In ‘First Position,’ Ballet Behind the Scenes Art Beat talks to "First Position" director Bess Kargman. Continue watching
Dec 21 Nutcrackers Around the Nation Display Regional Flair When "The Nutcracker" premiered in America in the 1940s, the holiday show became a perennial favorite and a reliable moneymaker for big and small ballet companies around the country. Since then, Tchaikovsky's ballet has been re-imagined innumerable times, customized to… Continue reading
Jun 25 Conversation: The State of Ballet in America, Part 2 By Tom LeGro Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country. Continue reading
Jun 24 Conversation: The State of Ballet in America, Part 1 By Tom LeGro Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country. Continue reading