Five years ago, Atlanta Ballet and 20 similar-sized ballet companies made a pledge to increase racial diversity in the ballet world — specifically, to increase the presence of Black individuals throughout their organizations. Pressure on the company has since been high. Atlanta’s population is nearly 50 percent Black, and the city is considered the cradle…
Cameron Terry, an enterprising young artistic director, brought six accomplished New York-based dancers to town last Saturday for the Atlanta debut of Shades Dance Theater. It was a homecoming for Terry, a native of Atlanta, whose compelling back story has everything to do with the spectrum of relationships shown in this production titled Love, Fantasy…
Kerry Lee, co-artistic director of Atlanta Chinese Dance Company, remembers hearing about the Atlanta spa shootings. On March 16, 2021, a gunman went on a shooting spree in Acworth and Atlanta that left eight people dead, six of whom were women of Asian descent. Within 24 hours, Lee’s phone “started blowing up,” she said, with…
What does it mean to celebrate from the core of your being? What memories must be uncovered? What stories are revealed? Choreographers chosen for Dance Canvas’ 15th anniversary season asked these and other questions as they looked at life, especially the trials of the past three years, through a lens of celebration. This year’s production,…
What is Don Quixote’s impossible dream? Miguel de Cervantes, author of the eponymous novel, wrote that the old man’s quest as errant knight was, in a nutshell, to bring justice, truth and beauty to a world given to cynicism and materialism. At first glance, much of Cervantes’ philosophy seems lost in Yuri Possokhov’s ballet adaptation…
What happens when all the skies have fallen and all the tragedies have been lived? What do we do next? Such questions have permeated choreographer George Staib’s creative process for ARARAT, the beginning. The ambitious multimedia work is set for three first-iteration performances at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Dance Studio, January 26-28…
She’s a girl on the brink of adolescence. He’s a boy who’ll never grow up. Their paths cross for an adventure filled with mischief and magic. Orchestral music lilted through Marietta’s Jennie T. Anderson Theatre last Friday evening, as beloved characters Peter Pan and Wendy Darling waltzed together, riding the rhythm as they moved like…
It’s said that a concert dancer dies twice — first, at the end of the artist’s performing career, and second, at the end of the artist’s life. For Sean Nguyen-Hilton, this first life passage gave impetus to a period of creativity involving deep investigation — of self, of the power systems that shaped his art,…
The noun “fancy,” the Oxford Dictionary tells us, is a “feeling of liking or attraction, typically one that is superficial or transient.” It was an apt descriptor for Atlanta Ballet’s season closer, titled Strike Your Fancy, last weekend at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Audiences in the half-full theater Friday witnessed an evening chock…
Like its main character, Ballethnic Dance Company’s signature work The Leopard Tale is something of an enigma. Near the end, the Leopard finds himself surrounded by a band of spear-wielding Warriors. He escapes the chase by slipping behind a tree, then springs from hiding and throws himself onto the hunters’ shoulders in what seems to…
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