Pasquale, aka Erik Thurmond, is a budding pop star with an origin story. Thurmond was adopted as a baby and grew up just outside of Atlanta. In 2016, he met his biological parents for the first time. They told him that, instead of having “a nameless child,” they always referred to him by his great-grandfather’s…
Through movement and fabric, sound and disco ball, a new site-specific work by Jimmy Joyner will tether today’s queer awareness to lives lost to AIDS. In the early 1990s, when a person living with AIDS wore the now familiar red ribbon, it was a radical declaration, a demand to be seen, counted and humanized in…
Nature is the artist’s oldest and, in some ways, most enduring inspiration. Perhaps that’s because nature is never impatient. Natural forces and processes move at their own pace, allowing artists to relate to it in their own time. Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars, a meditative new film by Lithuanian artist Eglė Budvytytė,…
Forget Valentine’s Day (and your hopeless attempt to secure a restaurant reservation this late). February is also Black History Month, and for many Atlanta dance goers, it is synonymous with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Year after year, the company packs the house, attracting groupies, first-timers and everyone in between. Revelations, Mr. Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece…
For Strike Your Fancy, Atlanta Ballet’s season closer May 13-15 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 27-year-old dancer-choreographer Sergio Masero was charged with a deceptively simple task. Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin asked him to “balance” the mostly female cast of Marius Petipa’s 1846 classic Paquita by creating a new ballet that showcased the male company…
“Welcome to this experiment called TRY,” said celebrated choreographer and dancer Ishmael Houston-Jones Friday night as he opened the evening-long work at The B Complex, an industrial gallery and performance space in Atlanta’s Capitol View neighborhood. He sat casually on the floor, his low conversational tone in stark contrast to the surrounding fantastical environment: a…
PhaeMonae and Laith Stevenson have been talking about the body in transition. PhaeMonae (she/they), a prolific movement artist who was named “One to Watch” by ArtsATL in 2017, is a former dancer with T. Lang Dance, glo and Core Dance, among others. She recently gave birth to her second child and says she has spent…
“Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who taught virtual classes from my cramped living room and produced online performances for more than a year, I am well aware of the myriad ways in which dancers and choreographers have had…
Editor’s Note: When we featured dancer Nicole Johnson in our 2013 “30 Under 30” series of young artists to watch, she was a featured performer and creative spark with gloATL (now glo). In the years since, she helped found Fly on a Wall, one of the city’s more prominent and innovative performance companies. She also…
Director’s Choice, Atlanta Ballet’s season closer performed last weekend at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, featured three works of pure ballet — Kiyon Ross’ Sum Stravinsky, Gemma Bond’s Denouement and Liam Scarlett’s world premiere of Catch. None followed a discernible story line. No character names, no libretto. In the program, Scarlett said, “It’s quite…
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