From storefront windows used as giant dance movie screens to a DIY dance festival in a church parking lot, Atlanta dance artists found new ways to adapt to the pandemic, deal with personal loss and sort out complex social issues that have surfaced. The year also saw new partnerships and collaborations. DanceATL, a support organization…
Darian Kane is in her third season as a dancer with Atlanta Ballet. Originally from Northern California, Kane has begun to explore choreography. Her first piece, Dr. Rainbow’s Infinity Mirror, was part of the company’s Silver Linings presentations earlier this year and she will expand it for an Atlanta Ballet program in February. Her All Eyes Forward is a filmed…
THEATER If you’re tired of getting “ghosted” (to use a current colloquial term) but like ghosts, Aurora Theatre’s Lawrenceville Ghost Tours are for you. During the 90-minute strolls, through October 31, plenty of scary characters show up in what the theater promises are “spine-tingling stories” of the town’s “haunted history and macabre mysteries.” Other Aurora-presented…
Available for viewing online through September 28, the Artists Climate Collective’s (ACC) Art to Action film includes a new work, “All Eyes Forward,” by Atlanta Ballet dancer and emerging choreographer Darian Kane. Set to an original score by Gabriel Gaffney Smith, the piece features six Atlanta dancers: Jackie Nash of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre; Fuki Takahashi,…
They’re back! On Friday, for the first time in more than a year, Atlanta Ballet dancers gave a magnificent in-person performance for a live audience. It was their first of six performances in the Georgia Tech Arts Skyline series. They’ll perform at the outdoor venue on three more evenings, May 7–9. The mixed bill was…
The Atlanta Ballet’s free livestream Silver Linings was an experiment, and like many experiments, some of it worked; some of it — mainly the technical difficulties — didn’t. The performance took place Friday evening at the Rialto Center for the Arts and was livestreamed on the center’s Facebook channel in partnership with GSU-TV. The mixed bill…
Atlanta Ballet will present its first live performance in a year with Friday’s “Silver Linings,” a free livestream in partnership with the Rialto Center for the Arts and Georgia State University TV. A second “Silver Linings” program, with different works, will be livestreamed March 19. Both will be anchored by a new piece from Claudia…
Last weekend, Atlanta Ballet’s Return to Fall, the company’s first main stage fall production in seven years, offered a bit of the familiar, historic and historically contemporary — with a seminal contemporary ballet, a Balanchine pas de deux, a performance by two formidable guest artists from Czech Republic and a new commission that elicited brilliance…
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