The season-opening program includes the world premiere of Melissa Hough’s Plagued Houses, a contemporary-meets-classical reimagining of Romeo and Juliet. The U.S. semiquincentennial festivities, or, less tongue-twisty, the nation’s 250th anniversary, have been somewhat overshadowed by social and political division. Yet arts presenters and artistic directors seem to be seizing this distinct moment to reflect on…
Atlanta Ballet’s mixed bill at the Cobb Energy Centre last weekend was truly mixed, opening with lyrical neoclassicism and closing with blisteringly powerful contemporary dance. :: Atlanta Ballet’s Kaleidoscope, presented at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre March 22-24, offered a pastiche of fluff and substance through two world premieres and a restaged work from…
When Japanese Americans were taken to internment camps in Manzanar, California, during the Second World War, fragments of memories and hastily gathered keepsakes were sometimes all that tethered these American citizens to their ancestral pasts. In 1942, by presidential order, more than 125,000 Japanese American lives were dismantled as families were abruptly taken from their…
Sunday’s Fall for Fall Dance performance at Uptown Atlanta — the third and final evening of this year’s festival — drew attendees into an expansive atrium with soaring ceilings, corporate-adjacent gathering spaces and intentional informality. Settling into an afternoon of 14 works delivered by independent choreographers with radical differences in aesthetics and experience was a…
Imagine navigating the distance between thought and movement. Consider the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of neuroscience. Suppose the neurological workings of the human brain could be externally stimulated for total recall. These are the inspired ponderings behind a contemporary ballet titled Step the Brain Along a Path. The world premiere of…
Andrew Nemr is a Lebanese, faith-driven artist, a tap dancer-storyteller who began training at the age of 3, just after his parents fled war-torn Lebanon to live in the United States. At age 9, after seeing the film Tap, Nemr told his parents he wanted to meet one of the film’s stars, Savion Glover. Two…
Lyrik London means business. Despite the alliterative name that flows off the tongue, there is an edge to this man, and he is not inclined to hide it. London’s dance-driven Black Boi Majik, part documentary, part autobiography and entirely unsettling, is in this year’s Out on Film festival, which highlights LGBTQ filmmakers in and around…
Atlanta Ballet is like that one considerate friend who is always there in mid-February with a Valentine’s Day treat. This year’s bon bon is one of the world’s oldest romantic ballets, La Sylphide, presented with live music from the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra. Originally created by legendary choreographer August Bournonville in 1836 for the Royal Danish…
The ever-evolving Atlanta Ballet closed 2018 with the premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s The Nutcracker. This larger-than-life interpretation was as much a tribute to the original 1816 story line as it was to 21st-century technology. In its first offering of 2019, Atlanta Ballet will step back from modern spectacle to present one of if not the…
Atlanta’s dance scene continues to edge beyond the Perimeter, with renowned international companies that once only inhabited centrally located venues such as the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech and the Rialto at Georgia State University. On November 1, for one night only, the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center and Byers Theatre will…
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