People dance to celebrate, worship, compete. When babies hear music, they move to it. Dance sells everything from Nike to Pepto Bismol and now we have TikTok. But concert dance as an art form is a hard sell. Yet when new audiences get the opportunity to experience dance, they often fall in love. Today, everyone…
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….
In July 2022, when ArtsATL toured what was to become the White Box Theater at Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s new Buckhead studios, it was an empty, barren warehouse of a space, filled with light but not much else. On Saturday, it had been transformed by the company’s love and labor into an inviting lobby and…
Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has been through a lot of ups and downs since it was founded six years ago, but a consistent thread has been director John Welker’s commitment to creating new narrative ballets that push the art form forward. “Storytelling is a hallmark of what we do,” he says. Welker discusses that vision…
Two world premieres, the inauguration of a White Box Theatre and the debut of three new company members will highlight Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s recently announced fall season. The contemporary ensemble will premiere new works by Atlanta Ballet dancer-choreographer Darian Kane and Terminus’ own Rachel Van Buskirk when it kicks off the season over two…
ART + DESIGN A lot of people redecorated their homes during the lockdown, but one wonders how many checked in with modernist designer Stephen Burks before they did. Burks is one of the most recognized American industrial designers of his generation, and the High Museum of Art is celebrating the African American designer in Stephen Burks: Shelter in…
On Friday, September 16, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, the Atlanta Ballet opened its first full season since the pandemic began with Balanchine Inspired, a two-hour program that took the audience from the avant garde poetry of George Balanchine’s Serenade, through the canny post-modern homage of Kiyon Ross’ Sum Stravinsky, to the pure…
Calling Atlanta Ballet’s recent mixed bill Firebird may have been good marketing strategy, but it was a misnomer for the company’s performances at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre over the weekend. The most interesting part of the program was the three world premieres, two by Atlanta Ballet dancers and one by choreographer-in-residence Claudia Schreier….
THEATER With MLB’s player lockout continuing, it may be a minute before we see any baseball. But Atlanta theatergoers at least have Toni Stone (above.) That name doesn’t ring a bell? It should. Stone was the first woman to play baseball in the Negro Leagues, for that matter the first female to play professionally in any…
“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…
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