Atlanta-based dancer and choreographer Juel D. Lane is one of four choreographers chosen to participate in the 2015-16 New Directions Choreography Lab, a program curated by Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The lab gives emerging choreographers an opportunity to develop their ideas with a group of students in The…
Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover has transformed tap from cheery Broadway and movie entertainment into a wide-ranging, ever-evolving art form, closer in spirit to McCoy Tyner and Jackson Pollock than Fred Astaire. He favors personal expression and innovation over the rote time steps and combinations many of us learned as kids. The result is unique, contemporary, groundbreaking…
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is leaving New York and moving to Atlanta. The company considered several other cities including San Diego, Los Angeles and Houston, but decided Atlanta was the best choice. According to Atlanta-based board member Su Longman, Complexions is planning a fundraising event in the fall and will perform October 8-10 at The Arena at Gwinnett…
Douglas Scott, artistic director of Full Radius Dance, was walking through the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on his way to see a dance exhibit when he noticed something: black-and-white photos taken in Las Vegas and Coney Island, at rodeos and nightclubs. He stopped and looked. And looked again. The photos were the…
The beauty of Ballethnic Dance Company’s Urban Nutcracker, now in its 20th year, is its celebration of community and its gimmick-free respect for this ballet’s classical heritage. One could say that costuming the Nutcracker to look like black nationalist Marcus Garvey is a gimmick, but in context it feels right; it’s simply another nod to the African…
None of the Lauri Stallings’ collaborative works I have seen — and I confess I’ve seen only a handful — has exuded as much joy as cloth did Thursday night at the Goat Farm Arts Center’s Goodson Yard. Cloth was the first of two world premieres on the program; the second was The Tower, set…
If dancing in a garden sounds like a pastoral kind of thing, you don’t know choreographer Robert Dekkers. His new work, Yours Is Mine, which receives its Atlanta premiere at the High Museum August 22 and 29, explores not the frolics of nymphs and naiads but “the nebulous area between aggression, camaraderie and sexuality.” It’s…
Dale Shields’ framed photo is the first one you see on the wall as you walk through the lobby of the Atlanta Ballet building toward the rehearsal studios. Given what Shields does for the company, it’s no surprise. As the “ballet mistress,” she is the vital thread that connects the dancers with every aspect of the…
Shakespeare ballets are all the rage these days. Alexei Ratmansky’s new Tempest premiered at American Ballet Theatre last October; London’s Royal Ballet gave the world premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale just last Thursday, and Atlanta Ballet performed Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette earlier this season. Hamlet is not the most obvious choice…
Alexandre Proia, 51, was named artistic director of the Georgia Ballet four seasons of the year ago, in March 2013. So it seems fitting that he celebrates his first anniversary with the company with a new ballet titled The Four Seasons. The work premieres Friday at the Marietta Performing Arts Center and runs through April 6….
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