Passing The Torch: Odette/Odile – Ballet Austin
Swan Lake is easily the most recognized and beloved ballet of all time. The history of
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On Stage
5 of New York’s Most Celebrated Companies Join Forces Again as part of Summer for the City at Lincoln Center
Five of NYC’s most iconic dance companies—Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet
5 of New York’s Most Celebrated Companies Join Forces Again
Ballet Hispanico performing at BAAND 2021 by Erin Baiano. Five of NYC’s most iconic dance
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Indianapolis Ballet’s Firebird
Since its premiere at the Theatre National de l’Opera in Paris, many major ballet companies have staged productions of The Firebird, some recreating the original choreography while others designed their own interpretations.
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Bringing Laughter & Beauty to the Stage: Ballet Austin’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
On behalf of Ballet Austin in January 2002, Stephen Mills accepted the invitation of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts to perform his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Kennedy Center’s Youth and Family Public Performance season.
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The Magic of Tradition
Each October Ballet Austin’s Company Dancers head into
the studio and begin to prepare for Austin’s favorite holiday tradition: The Nutcracker.
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Leaping from Caricature to Character
As a Chinese person, the second act of The Nutcracker has always bugged me. Looking more broadly at the historic depictions of “Chinese” people on the Western performing arts stage, we see fantasy elements of what Europeans thought Chinese people looked like handed down to us from the baroque era. Sallow “grotesque” dancers would don Fu Manchu mustaches and rice paddy hats then shuffle and bob around the stage in between acrobatic tricks. In the diverse multicultural society we live in now, and with an awareness of over 5,000 years of rich Chinese cultural heritage to choose symbols from, can we not make better creative choices for today?
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A RETURN TO THE STAGE: FACE TO FACE AT LAST
For a dancer, starting a new season is like unwrapping a gift. This year, as the dancers of OBT open the gift of the 2021-22 season, mystery and delight are intensified and weighted by the uncertainty and devastation these artists, and the world, have known.
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