When Julian Meija (pictured in blue), founder of SALSAtlanta, first moved to Atlanta in the 1990s, he found no one was dancing casino as they had been in Miami. He introduced Atlantans to the Cuban form and has been teaching it ever since. Photos courtesy of Julian Mejia Photography.
On a recent Sunday afternoon, The Tap Rebels were rehearsing in the front studio at City Dance and Music, where the company is in residence. At 19, Andrew Stovall is the youngest and one of the newest members. While Stovall led a run-through of a piece he choreographed, Tap Rebels founder and Executive Director Vanessa…
Die Körper (meaning “the bodies”), the newest evening-length work by choreographer Jillian Mitchell and her company Kit Modus, is not so much a dance as an exquisitely-crafted alternate reality in which gesture communicates with eerie precision and an extraordinary range of symbolic nuance. During the Saturday, June 6, performance of its premiere at Windmill Arts,…
I hope we never Land, a new contemporary dance work by Emma Morris, mines for lost treasure in the green wilds and on the sun-soaked beaches of the choreographer’s self-described “nomadic upbringing.” She has an academic background in environmental science, and environmentalism is a thematic through line in Morris’ work. “I feel like I spent…
Frida Kahlo — surrealist painter, political activist, feminist, gardener — spent a lifetime transforming her dreams into reality. For Larissa Capitanio Dal’Santo, one of two dancers cast in the titular role of Atlanta Ballet’s production of Frida, created by renowned choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the opportunity to play Kahlo on stage is, fittingly, a dream…
After completing the first draft of her debut novel, Sleight, as a dissertation project at the University of Georgia, novelist and Ph.D. graduate Kirsten Kaschock won the 2025 Juniper Literary Prize for her second novel, An Impossibility of Crows. Neither of the two novels is about Georgia specifically, but in both books, the author —…
Madelyn Sher — born, raised and based in New York — is Emory University’s second arts fellow in dance. Her new work, A Note That Bends, will premiere on Friday and Saturday, April 24 and April 25 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts dance studio. The performance promises to offer a delightful demonstration of…
“We are a rebellious group of ballet dancers that thrives on calculated risks,” Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre Artistic Director John Welker told ArtsATL regarding its upcoming Rhapsody in Gershwin program. “It’s a tough time for the arts, right? The knee-jerk reaction is to play it safe, but I think that’s the wrong response, especially with…
Caught in Friday’s late-afternoon traffic, I was running late in spite of my best intentions. When I opened the studio door and entered as quietly as possible, the five students in Angelita Itzanami Reyes’ SOMOS Niños dance program had already finished pliés and were transitioning to tendus. “Is this our visitor?” the girl standing closest…
Alicia Graf Mack, the new artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and only the fourth permanent artistic director in the company’s 67-year history, was only 17 when she joined Dance Theatre of Harlem under the direction of Arthur Mitchell. At the time, especially in ballet, the typical professional dancer’s career began right out…
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