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…
Choreographer Jacqui Hinkson’s new dance work, Crash Test, at Windmill Arts Center on Saturday seemed predictable at first. Six dancers stood in three rows of two, as if in a large family SUV. The two at the back pushed the two in the middle, causing them to lurch forward and smash into the front row….
Atlanta Ballet’s choreographer in residence, Claudia Schreier, loves the energy of big cities. Her new work for the company celebrates that energy with music by another city-dweller, composer and bandleader Wynton Marsalis. Quick, who’s your favorite ballet composer? Tchaikovsky maybe? Prokofiev? Stravinsky? Wynton Marsalis? The jazz composer’s name doesn’t immediately spring to mind, even though…
Beacon Dance presented the second iteration of its annual concert, “Moving Bodies/Moving Hearts/Moving Minds” at The B Complex over the weekend, delivering all three with new contemporary dance works. :: Beacon Dance originally took its name from the Beacon Hill Elementary School in downtown Decatur, but when D. Patton White became the company’s artistic director…
When Taylor Swift swooped into Atlanta last year, her Swifties probably didn’t think about the show’s choreographer, Mandy Moore, the same person who created those gorgeous dances in the 2016 movie La La Land. Recent movies, too, are full of work by talented choreographers: Fatima Robinson drew on African-American social dance in The Color Purple,…
While watching Coco Chanel: A Life in Fashion, Atlanta Ballet’s full-length production that premiered last month, Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin got an idea. He would invite resident choreographer Claudia Schreier to create a new work for the 2024-25 season set to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. It was one of many decisions Nedvigin has made in…
When Paris-based designer Jérôme Kaplan was commissioned to create the costumes for Coco Chanel: The Life of a Fashion Icon, the new full-length ballet based on the life of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, he procrastinated. “Walking in Chanel’s footsteps was extremely intimidating for me, almost paralyzing,” he told ArtsATL via email recently. “Doing Chanel on stage…
The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University has reached an agreement with the Ministry of Culture of the Hellenic Republic to transfer three objects from its collection to the Greek ministry, the museum has announced. The Carlos and other American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, have been criticized in recent years for…
Hammonds House Museum, named for the late Dr. O.T. Hammonds, former owner of the house and an avid collector, has appointed arts professional, curator and author Halima Taha artistic chair for the next three seasons. Taha, well-known as author of the 1998 book Collecting African-American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas, will have a multifaceted…
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