It’s a Friday afternoon in one of Atlanta Ballet’s rehearsal studios and visiting répétiteur Paul Boos is teaching dancer Ángel Ramírez how to crawl. “You need to crawl through the music, not to it,” he says, as a brief section of Sergei Prokofiev’s score for George Balanchine’s ballet Prodigal Son plays. Angela Agresti, one of…
Creating a cohesive and entertaining season for ballet audiences takes time: Atlanta Ballet Director Gennadi Nedvigin reveals some of his thinking behind the company’s 2025-26 season. :: Atlanta Ballet’s 2025-26 season will include three full-length story ballets — Frida, based on the life of artist Frida Kahlo, Giselle and The Nutcracker — along with six…
George Balanchine’s Coppélia is a big ballet and not just because it’s a full-length story ballet in three acts. It has an unusually large cast, huge sets and a big birthday: The ballet is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It premiered at New York City Ballet’s summer home in Saratoga Springs, New York, in…
100 decorated pianos were placed in public spaces around Atlanta. Wherever the instruments end up, Pianos for Peace pays for them to be tuned and maintained. Jandali was born in Germany of Syrian parents. When Jandali was 5, his father, a prominent physician, returned to Syria with his family to start a private hospital. Jandali…
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was exceptionally popular with our readers. We’re resharing it with you now. Thank you for a wonderful 2024! Helen Pickett’s new ballet for American Ballet Theatre is a multifaceted narrative work. Her assistant, Atlanta’s Sarah Hillmer, contributed to its creation in multiple ways. Sarah Hillmer’s latest work notebook is mauve….
Helen Pickett’s new ballet for American Ballet Theatre is a multi-faceted narrative work. Her assistant, Atlanta’s Sarah Hillmer, contributed to its creation in multiple ways. Sarah Hillmer’s latest work notebook is mauve. Or maybe, she says upon reflection, it’s a light purple/lavender mix? Hillmer is very particular about her notebooks. Each ballet she has worked…
Since launching her movement platform, glo, in 2009, choreographer Lauri Stallings’ work has evolved to include civic action in rural communities such as Palmetto, a small town in Georgia’s South Fulton County. Lauri Stallings is welcoming guests to her 120-year-old home in Palmetto for an event she calls the “Fete.” It’s a hot, humid Friday…
Feathers, drums, flowers and smoke, the sound of rattles, the beauty of ribbons, swirling skirts, dancers old and young, ritual, poetry, song, music, mythology and more filled the Schwartz Center’s Dance Studio on Saturday night as dancer-choreographer Julio Medina’s mesmerizing new work return//de vuelta a los ancestros unfurled. Ritual was present even before the work…
Five Atlanta-based ballet dancers made the most of their summer hiatus to create, teach and find connection :: What did you do on your summer vacation? It’s a common question, but, when asked of ballet dancers, it can elicit far more interesting and unusual answers than stories of road trips and beach getaways. Ballet companies…
Beacon Dance is no stranger to the work of outsider artist Howard Finster. This year the Atlanta ensemble will create something new for Finster Fest at the artist’s iconic Paradise Garden. In 2023, when D. Patton White and his company Beacon Dance performed at a Buckhead home during a private event for the Paradise…
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