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Q&A: Sue Schroeder on Core Dance’s 40th season and the keys to longevity

Cynthia Bond PerryJune 16, 2019

Sue Schroeder, artistic director of Core Dance, recently brought her contemporary dance company to an art and design center in La Cuisine, France -- a relativel...

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Atlanta Ballet veterans shine in Liam Scarlett’s liberating Catch

Kathleen WesselMay 14, 2019

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...

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With Director’s Choice, Atlanta Ballet offers three windows into ballet’s future

Kathleen WesselMay 8, 2019

Youngish choreographers, new and established, will bring three works to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre this weekend in Atlanta Ballet’s season closer, D...

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Tiny dancer, prima ballerina and pioneer: Maniya Barredo is Every Woman

Gail O'NeillMay 1, 2019

Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man. – Aristotle Maniya Barredo, née Josephine Carmen Imutan Barredo, was seven years old when a ph...

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Atlanta Ballet to debut at Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center

Cynthia Bond PerryApril 10, 2019

Last September, Atlanta Ballet’s Return to Fall production placed works from different eras side-by-side, revealing connections between old and new ballets. Thi...

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Atlanta Ballet nods to history and diversity with 2019–20 season

Cynthia Bond PerryMarch 21, 2019

Beginning next September, Atlanta Ballet’s 90th-anniversary season promises impressive variety, with nods to the company’s rich history and a turn toward divers...

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Atlanta Ballet will perform at the Kennedy Center and in Czech Republic next season

ARTS ATL StaffMarch 14, 2019

When Gennadi Nedvigin became artistic director of Atlanta Ballet in 2016, he aimed to increase company visibility by presenting Atlanta Ballet in distinguished ...

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Atlanta Ballet’s La Sylphide charms with buoyancy, expressiveness

George StaibFebruary 21, 2019

Atlanta Ballet is like that one considerate friend who is always there in mid-February with a Valentine’s Day treat. This year’s bon bon is one of the world’s o...

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Atlanta Ballet summons the ethereal in timeless, romantic La Sylphide

George StaibFebruary 13, 2019

The ever-evolving Atlanta Ballet closed 2018 with the premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s The Nutcracker. This larger-than-life interpretation was as much a tribute to...

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A photo essay of a ballerina’s most personal tool — her pointe shoes

Scott FreemanJanuary 24, 2019

There is something decidedly personal about a ballerina and her relationship with her pointe shoes. Other artists have tools -- a guitarist has a guitar, a pain...

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