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…
(Editor’s Note: The “Everyday Heroes” Inspire Atlanta series is a collaboration between The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and its journalistic partners, including ArtsATL.) Nena Gilreath and Waverly T. Lucas don’t think of themselves as heroes — but thousands of Atlantans do. For 33 years, the married couple has led the professional ensemble Ballethnic Dance Company, trained dancers in their school and connected…
The first time I watched Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech The Nutcracker, the one Yuri Possokhov choreographed for the company in 2018, I felt that the huge video projections and lavish busyness of the set design dwarfed and distracted from the dancers. I often found myself looking at the sets and videos and not at the dancing….
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